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White Owl Designs Official Blog
Published: 11-06-2012 12:57pm
Be sure to check out the official White Owl Designs Blog at http://www/whiteowldesigns.com... » Read More
Checkin in on Memorial Day
Published: 05-28-2012 09:48am
It is a beautiful morning! I have a lead crystal collection and crystals hanging from my window and the sun is golden and shining in just the right angle scattering rainbows everywhere - so many rainbows. Just gorgeous and impossible to capture in a photo!I cleaned out my studio (bead and jewelry) last week and came up with some really fun craft lots listed in my shop. There really is some great stuff in these lots... much better than the mixed you get at the craft stores. What fun they are to put together as well. I also listed some pretty things I found in my jewelry box in a new, fun section called "found objects".I love Artfire, it accommodate... » Read More
Pow Wow and News
Published: 05-10-2012 05:07pm
Thanks to everyone that came out to see us at the Pow Wow in San Juan Bautista! A great time was had all around. Thanks to Phoenix Eagleshadow Of Raven Medicine for all her amazing free healings.I have opened back up the glass bead shop for a limited time so be and catch all the gorgeous glass beads available at stunning prices.I'll be listing more all week and have some new little beauties you can find no where else.Another item I am going to be expanding on are my hand painted eggs, with designs but also with landscapes and medicine wheels. Ireceived a tremendous interest in these at the pow wow so be looking formore of these in the not to dista... » Read More
My own little shop
Published: 03-29-2012 10:19pm
I am seriously considering opening up my own online store at my domain whiteowldesigns.com . I have thinking about this for a long time and do believe the time has about come. If any of you have any thoughts, preferences or experiences please let me know. The more opinions the better!... » Read More
The Way of the Muse Part 3: Arrogance
Published: 03-08-2012 04:34pm
ar·ro·gance
(as defined in Merriam-Webster Online)
noun : an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions
This is one of the more difficult topics to illustrate. I see the
stereotype clearly, the arrogant genius, the egotist artist with a body
of work that could fill galleries. Arrogance does not mean that there
is no muse. Arrogance does not mean that you can not have a very
productive career as an artist. Perhaps even there is a muse or two that
thrives off the intense energy of unbridled egotism. My reason for
writing about arrogance as a culprit ... » Read More
Ten Things to Do to Stir Your Creativity
Published: 02-22-2012 09:30am
The Way of the Muse Part 2
Way of the Muse part 1 for your reference.
In this post I am going to look at ten things you can do to keep your
creativity agile while your muse has left the building. When you sit
down to create, waiting for that elixir of inspiration and the well is
dry. It happens to every one who makes anything at some point in time,
and often times it freezes us. depresses us. It need not.
I
have some activities and practices to coax your Muse back to it’s post,
or to at least get your mind in the game. I’m happy to share them and
you can vary these to your imaginations content.
1. I ha... » Read More
The Symbolic Meaning of Color
Published: 01-29-2012 06:51pm
I put this info sheet together for my website. It may be useful.
The Symbolic Meaning of Color (pdf)
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The Way of the Muse Part 2: The Inner Critic
Published: 01-29-2012 06:49pm
The most powerful saboteur of creativity is also the most insidious
enemy of peace of mind – the inner critic. That voice inside us that
tears apart what we are doing inch by inch, thought by thought. Freud
called it the Super Ego, others have compared it to the critical father
and even others have said it is a now unwanted helper. Whatever you call
it, it can take a moment of inspiration and tear it apart a bit at a
time until the frustrated muse makes a hasty retreat.
The inner critic at its most bold sounds like this:
You don’t even deserve to be an artist
That sucks
I suck
Who ever told you that you could be an artist... » Read More
The Way of the Muse Part 1
Published: 01-29-2012 06:46pm
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to
love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are
written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which
cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the
point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you
will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some
distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Breaking it down
Creation is a love affair and the medium its mistress. I have seen
writers, painters and makers in every medium struggle with ... » Read More
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