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Category Archives: Links

Loosen up your painting style

29 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Links, Painting, Reviews, Tutorial

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creativity, inspiration, link love, relax, video

New class by Tara Leaver – check it out if you want to get more playful with your art.

I’ve participated in another of her courses and keep returning for inspiration, as you have unlimited access once you buy it. The Charcoal class is on my list too! Well, right now I’m just waffling through life, but eventually I hope/expect to find a way back to myself and the studio.

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Redbubble

14 Saturday Apr 2018

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Links, Painting, Photography

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art, intention, Shop

I’ve been thinking and it’s been suggested a couple of times, about doing the print-on-demand thing for selling images and finally went and tried it on.

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How To Go Viral

20 Tuesday Mar 2018

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Links, Thoughts

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inner conviction, inspiration, intention, life, link love, relax

A very timely post on many levels, one of them being how I’m not really posting here at the moment.

I have been instagramming a bit, so you could always scoot over there to have a look, you can view and comment even on a PC.

Anyway, I recommend Sarah’s list on how to “go viral” (it may not be what you think it is). This was my favourite of her suggestions and wise words:

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Eco-fashion’s Inconvenient Truth – About ethical clothing and sustainability

02 Friday Mar 2018

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Links, Thoughts

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clothing, life, link love, silk

When you put on a vegan jacket made of viscose or recycled plastic, are you sure you’re helping the planet more than if you bought one made of leather?

Source: Eco-fashion’s Inconvenient Truth – About ethical clothing and sustainability

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Whazzup?

25 Sunday Feb 2018

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Links, The Other Blog

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art, creativity, health, intention, knitting, Painting, relax, seasons, video, weather, winter

Hey there. Once again my sincere apologies for lack of content – I do in fact have some linky things lined up, but thought it would be nicer to spread them out a little in between actual posts.

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Inspirations 10

26 Wednesday Jul 2017

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Links, Thoughts

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art, crafts, creativity, inspiration, link love, video

It’s been a while since we had one of these posts! In fact this has been sitting as a draft for a year today exactly. So I’ll release it into the wild with one newly found link as well as the ones I found last year.

Quirky woven baskets

and

Quirky New Chalk Characters

Plastered plants with a How To

Surreal creatures

Japanese spinning tops

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How Thinking Like a Little Kid Can Keep You Sharp As You Age

24 Wednesday May 2017

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Links, Thoughts

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creativity, inner conviction, intention, life, link love

As we get older, we focus more on specialized knowledge than broader learning. A new paper argues that’s slowing us down.

Well, I may be deluding myself of course, but I feel every bit as sharp as I did 30 years ago. If I needed to learn a new language for example, I’d assume I could just go ahead and do so. How about you?

Source: How Thinking Like a Little Kid Can Keep You Sharp As You Age — Science of Us

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Blog berserk!

17 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by Pia in Links, Painting, Photography, Show-and-tell

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blogging, intention, link love, new and shiny

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Since I’ve been playing at making a small, selfhosted fiber blog in Danish (and then not done much in the way of yarn activities to write there), I seem to have gotten into a frenzy. While I haven’t been able to find the perfect template for anything on closer inspection, I’ve decided on an experiment where I separate photo galleries and paintings into two separate blogs – while business continues here at Colour Cottage quite as usual. Continue reading →

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Crafting with kids

30 Friday Sep 2016

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Links

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art, autumn, crafts, inspiration, link love

diy-painted-feathers-4I don’t have any and I’m actually not that keen, but I sometimes end up on websites describing projects that sound like fun, so I thought I’d share a few. Autumn holidays are soon to begin here, after that of course there’s all the other holidays coming up! I remember how nice it was to do little projects like this, must be even better these days when children are living in symbiosis with their computer…

Painted feathers

Sticker mandala

Fabric Twine

Painted sticks – use outdoors craft paints for use in the garden?

Pine cone decorations

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Dansk fiber blog

11 Thursday Aug 2016

Posted by Pia in Acid Dyeing, Chit Chat, Felting, Knitting, Links, På dansk, Plant Dyeing, Sewing, Shop, Show-and-tell, Spinning, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

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blog, blogging, butik, crafts, dansk, garn, håndarbejde, Shop, stof, strik, uld, vævning

Jeg har leget med tanken om at sætte en dansk blog op sammen med en lille netbutik til mit overskudslager. Det bliver ikke en kopi af denne blog med alt mellem himmel og jord, den vil heller ikke blive opdateret så ofte med mindre det vælter ind med brugere(!).

Det hele ligger lokalt på vores egen server som et lille eksperiment, så svartiden er måske ikke hvad man er vant til ude på det store WWW, vi ved det ikke! Så jeg inviterer hermed til test og feedback: www.farvehytten.dk

Egentlig ville jeg vente med annonceringen til der lå lidt mere indhold, men så sker der det ene, og det andet og tiden går, og så får jeg heller ikke lagt noget på fordi jeg jo ved at der ikke er nogen som ser det.

Så nu ser vi!


uk This is an announcement of my new Danish website with a small shop for surplus production. You’re welcome to have a look, but I won’t be translating it. Possibly I’ll put up stuff for sale in here as well unless it grows enough to reopen my Etsy store. Any suggestions on that front? (when I began the draft for this post I probably knew what I meant by that question, now I don’t, but I’m going to leave it in case somebody else does)

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