To tell the truth.
I am far from loving properly the things I ought to love. And I don’t like feeling so busy and chaotic that I seem to have lost the ability to feel my own feelings or hear my own thoughts. I need a day in the woods. A night under stars. Utter silence, within and without. [...]
Note to self:
Remember being small. Something so good, you wanted to roll in it, lap it up. Maple syrup. Magic. It’s a saving thing, being this connected to the weather. To feel the frost roll in, Chill flexing icy fingers, branch by branch, cracks its knuckles in crisp morning. Remember the leaves, for whom only yesterday I [...]
gluttony. autumn: i could drink you in.
shadows shadows creeping in flicker flames to darkness spin away from warmest dreams tucked in, frayed seams sing sing the song again ‘fore winter silence hems us in, stitches all the birds away we sit, then we wait fatten up our passing spell fall’s great heave, autumn’s swell leaves that great rotting stew and grows [...]
Feed your soul…
Need to spruce up your cube? Today my free downloadable art print is up at Indie Fixx. You’re a winner. Yes, you. xo, Sam
Special Edition Silly Faces
Just loaded a whole heap of new Silly Faces into the shop, including a few special edition Type Jars and larger jars. The one in the photo above is for the Gulf Relief Network and half the profits of the sale will go directly to clean up efforts in the gulf coast region. I hope [...]
inspiration
Learning how to say “no” is a recurring theme in my life, as it is for many. There are SO many things to do, see and be, and time is in such a disobliging short supply. We inevitably have to make choices, some easy, some difficult. We must continually strike off down one side of [...]
Some exciting news!
Friends! I bought a for-real art printer and it’s as big as a small suitcase! What does this mean? Well, I can now offer prints of the daily drawings series, the virtues and vices series and will take requests for prints of any blog illustrations. In the near future, I’ll be setting up a more [...]
Practice saying only nice things…
No. 7 in the “Tips for a Happy Life” Series Dear Friends, I’m afraid I have backed myself into a bit of corner with this one… I would like to tell you how my head is filled with worry-worry-worry over being an artist and the difficulties posed by this particular career choice. I would tell [...]
My Creative Talisman
Hello lovely people! I’ve been going through another one of Julia Cameron’s books… you know, the self-help-artist-therapy-get-in-touch-with-your-inner-creative-child-type books? I’d probably laugh with you if you made fun of how cheesy they are, but secretly I LOVE them. Today I had to troll though my life and collect the top 10 negative words anyone has [...]
Holiday Shop update
Lost at Sea T-shirt available here! Dear friends, First off, how are you all? I hope you all had such nice weekends and enjoyed some relaxation and down-time. This time of year seems to blow through like a tornado and I always hate that because I feel like advent should be a slow, silent walk [...]
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