You may have noticed Arty Life has a NEW look. It’s still a work in progress and you may be wondering why, why would I ditch the old header and move some things around?
I could blame it all on my inner geek, the one that loves to fool with webstuff. The one that said don’t write a post this week, take the website apart instead.
Yeah, THAT one.
I could blame it on the same crazy creative mindset that paints over perfectly good canvasses. You’ve seen me do that often enough around here, haven’t you?
Or I could blame it on the time change. Yeah, lets do that.
But it’s not the geek or the crazy painter lady or Daylight Savings Time coming earlier and earlier every year that got me off schedule. No, no no… it’s SPRING!!!
Yep, spring caused me to blow off writing a post last week. And the one before.
Because in my corner of the world EVERYTHING is GROWING! All those plants we planted last year, planted with big empty spaces all around, well those plants, right now as I’m writing this, are having plant babies and SPREADING out, beginning to take over the empty spaces just like the plant lady said they would.
Plant babies! YAY!!!
And it makes me happy. Sooooooo happy I was out there for awhile today pulling weeds and humming and sipping on some cold coffee while the dogs and cat hung out with me eating enough grass to guarantee they’ll be puking later on.
Note to dogs and cat: Not on the bed, please NOT ON THE BED!!! Or anything upholstered.
Spring caused me to want to spread out and renew myself. My blog. And my other blog.
Other blog???
Well, YES! Remember Big Bold Beautiful Yes! The blog where I wrote down to my soul, the blog I stopped writing a little more than a year ago. After an ugly presidential election that came between friends. After the terrible school shooting at Sandy Hook where guns came between friends. It was hard to write YES! when all I wanted to do was scream NOOOOOO and knock some sense into anyone who didn’t agree with me. So I pulled back. Missed a week. Then two. Then a month and a year and basically forgot it ever existed.
Until spring began to stir things up and YES! began bubbling up in my soul again. YES! YES! YES!!! I went back to it, took a look at what I’d written way back when and fell in love again.
And so I’ve decided to revive it. Expand it. Make it better. And change the look so it tied in better with Arty Life. And since I was doing that, I needed to change the look of my art site, the one that’s still waiting for me to finish, I needed to tie ALL THREE of them together. You can get to any of them through the nav bar up there. Or the sidebar if I get around to it. They’re different sites with different looks. Different message. Different voice. But if I did my job right they’ll work together.
Check ’em out. And do let me know what you think. Here’s the link to YES.
YES! To sweet, sweet woodruff babies! YES! To writing your heart and soul! YES! to sharing the precious authenticity and pure joy that comes from arting (that’s ARTING)! So happy you are back and the you find renewal in the change of seasons. Leave the political blogging to those of inferior intelligence and use this spirit and renewal for inspiration, and art, and love, I say!
Michelle recently posted..Hold On To Your Hat
You say rightly, m’dear! Inspiration, art and love it shall be 🙂
YAY – for spring renewal! Everything looks good around here. You are an inspiration.
Judy Shreve recently posted..Dancing on the Rooftop
YAY! Thanks Judy!
Congrats. On Spring, on new blogs, on being super funny. Glad I stopped by. Love the “plant babies”. Can’t wait to see a few of my own!
Amy Putkonen recently posted..Scattered Life Collective: March 28th
I hope spring comes soon to your neck of the woods, Amy, and brings you lots of plant babies!
I can blame it all on spring…that’s what it is? This crazy desire to re-invent myself and my blog and website. Cause I’m right there with ya….been going through a year long personal transformation and now I’m bursting at the seams with new ideas and notions, overflowing creativity. And…and….not only do my dogs eat grass, but bunny poop seems to have become quite the delicacy of late…..ugh!
Debbie Goode recently posted..Buster WIP Four
Bunny poop–yes! A favorite of puppies everywhere, including mine 🙂
This self/blog/website reinvention must be contagious, don’t you think? It’s also exciting, exhilarating and (in a good way) exhausting. No, no, scratch exhausting, make that invigorating!
Yay for spring arriving in all it’s delightful beauty and bringing with it new beginnings, new inspirations, new invitations to blossom. Love your new look!
Thanks, Deborah. I was so afraid of changing things and then I realized why not? Really, WHY NOT???
It’s so liberating 🙂
When things seem to be falling apart (or torn apart as you have confessed), they may really be falling together (or working together)! lol! ♥
So… now, I’ll have to track down the 3rd website as I have seen 2/3s of them already. Hmmmnnnn… the plants weren’t the only things sprouting! *wink*
Okay… so off I go to have a gander. Thanks for posting your Spring message ~ I’ve been feeling it too and will blame my lack of productivity on the season. It’s as good a reason as any!
Much love to you, Susan! ♥
I sure hope they’re working together, Jean, at least that’s the plan 🙂 The third site (if we’re talking the same one) still isn’t finished. Little details like inventory, shopping cart, CLASSES. Ay-yi-yiiiiiiiii…it’s enough to keep me busy for a while!
xo
Yes! To Spring, to waiting for guidance and acting on that guidance when it arrives. Yes, yes, yes!
Linda Watson recently posted..Waiting for Guidance
Guidance hit me last night/this morning around 1 AM when it told me to GO. TO. BED. I’m going to start listening to that wise voice a little more often, Linda 🙂