Creative Arts

I’ve been wracking my brain cells for an image that will give the feeling of Creative Fat Grrl to use in a link exchange. After much searching of soul and Google Images I have come up with a plan to use paper chain dolls. Do you remember those? Have you ever made one? I’m still [...]

In my other life I’m a freelance writer.
It’s not an easy thing to claim to be a writer. Brady, in his blog Hunting the Muse, did a great job of writing about this feeling. The ever inadequate feeling of being someone who writes versus a writer.
When I was still a kid, a young teenaged human [...]

Say something relevant to the post itself. Come up with a comment more interesting than “I agree” or “Me too”. It’s not that tough to stretch out a thought beyond two words. Why do you agree with the post? What was your own experience? Most blog comments are on the short side. Find a bit [...]

Just pucker up and blow… if you want to go with some kind of spray paint doodle. I don’t think the paint tastes that great so I just stick to a semi-ordinary pen and blank, white paper. I scan my doodles then plaster them to my personal blog. The odd thing is that people like [...]

One thing I have learned to watch for when I look at free web scripts, gadgets, widgets and such for adding to my blog are hitchhikers. Before you paste the code into your HTML paste it into Notepad first. Read the code. Do you see a link to a third party URL? A site not [...]

Wink and Feedjit are two programs I have been using on my personal blog awhile. I began with Wink after finding it on Lady Banana’s blog (I think I found both there actually).
Wink is a way to keep all your social communities in one list. You can also find others through Wink. Mainly I like [...]

Been a while since I posted here. I moved, got a new job as a tech support person. (Don’t laugh). I’m doing my best to help people with their digital television systems. I’ve grown to think very little of anything hd (high definition) and remote controls should be kept under safety glass. I’ve found someone [...]

My Grandmother liked to make puppets. She would work with kids in her small town (in Ontario) and put on whole puppet shows. They built the stage, sets, costumes, wrote plays and of course they made masses of puppets. There were different kinds, not just sock puppets. Some you put your hand inside and the [...]

I collect postcards. Not as much as I did when I wrote to a thousand or so penpals around the world when I was a teen, but I still pick up the odd one here and there. I don’t get to travel much so it’s far more challenging to collect postcards when you are in [...]

You wouldn’t know it by standing over my shoulder any time but I am trying to write a book. It’s not easy. I already have the general idea for the story, the characters, and even the time to work on it. The problem is converting what made a good short story into a long story. [...]

I applied to write a topic at About.com. If anyone has good contacts there I would appreciate a good word put in for me. It’s not the first topical network I have written for but it seems to be the toughest to get into. Which is a good thing for the writers, site owners and [...]

It bugs me when I go to a business or charity type of site and find they have nothing extra to offer me. Not only is it harder and harder to find a real way of contacting anyone online but they are often really skimpy on content too. What are they saving it for? Why [...]

Wrapping paper and Christmas cards are part of the tradition but how about being even more creative and environmentally friendly? Sending online Christmas cards isn’t the same but it’s an alternative. If you buy cards get them in a box, buying a single card will cost a lot more. Plus you will have enough cards [...]

I take photos of abandoned farmhouses, as a hobby. Often, people who see my photos remark on how spooky they are. Spooky? Maybe some people are just watching too much TV. I like them because they are old and strong, enduring the elements long after the people have moved on. Those houses are like a [...]

Not all that long ago, in the olden days someone began rules for email etiquette. Someone else renamed the rules Netiquette. One of the old rules was for email signatures - the few lines of text at the end of the emails you send out. Email signatures used to include links, favourite quotes and even [...]

I really like web design. I’m not a design wizard or a technical wonder woman but I really admire those who can put together a creative and technically functional website. I’m working on getting there myself. It’s a goal I’m keeping close and I have plans to take an online course over the winter.
One thing [...]

Last Sunday, my first weekend new to the city of Toronto, I caught the Queen Street streetcar and attended CanZine. I was far too early. Many of the tables were not set up. But, I made the mistake of thinking it would take longer to get there than it really did. Still, I paid my [...]

I’m late again this year. This was going to be the year I started NaNoWriMo on time and actually finished my 50,000 words by the end of November. Instead I’m still in the final stages of moving jetlag. Not that I had a jet, that would have been nice, a whole moving crew too.
Here I [...]

I wanted to blog for the women like myself, those who get told how pretty they would be if only… When I’m feeling good hearing that makes me annoyed. When I’m not feeling so good hearing that makes me feel awful and hopeless. So, I want to make this blog for other women who have [...]