Art Supply House & Custom FramingLife is like a mirror; if I smile, the mirror returns the smile. The same attitude I have toward life is what life will have towards me.~ Mahatma Gandhi As of this morning we’re open for curb-side pick-ups! Call or email to get an order in the works and we’ll get it gathered together for […]
We don’t control what happens in life. We control how we respond. Circumstances are not up to us, but our choices of reactions and actions are. Today’s email is going out later than I planned. After a visit to the pediatrician (my daughter’s 4 month old checkup and shots) I headed into the store and […]
It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms, and makes creativity possible.~ Georges Braque It looks like we, as a community, will be easing back open over the next few weeks! As best I can tell, Monday the Art Supply House will be allowed to offer curb-side pickup once […]
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.~ Frederick Douglass The image above came from FaceBook, so I can’t vouch for the validity of the numbers. However, I feel that there is a lot of good stuff still going on, even in these potentially stressful times. So here’s a bit more good news and […]
You must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. Then you will be able to DO … Try to do some BAD work – the worst you can think of and see what happens but mainly relax and let everything go to hell – you are not responsible for the world – you are only responsible […]
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.~ Jane Kenyon Isn’t that a great reminder? It’s easy to […]
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.~ Jane Kenyon Over the weekend I stumbled across Emily Dickenson’s […]
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, […]
We don’t choose when we live, we choose how we live. I’m a list maker. I have lists of lists. A friend sent me a photo of their todo list recently. It was gorgeous – little doodles drawn in the margins and nice handwriting. I replied with 4 of mine – various todo lists broken […]
They say we don’t even have to be fully sane, that it actually helps if we’re a bit peculiar. I disagree of course. When I listen to the mayhem on the news each day, I realize that artists must be among the few truly balanced people on earth.~ Richard Schmid It’s certainly hard for us […]