summer twenty16 no.2
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WHIMSY . WONDER . JOY IN ALL THE SIMPLE THINGS .
photo & etched glass art from [vinegar&brown paper] reprinted with permission. Find out more about artist andy polar on p. 11.
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have, to be honest, one of the hardest things that creatives is giving up the need for validation. in fact, i’m sure many of you don’t even feel qualified to be labeled a creative—a poet, a writer, a painter, a sculptor unless your work has been actively marketed to the public and received a hardy amount of facebook thumbs up. to be honest, that’s a big reason why creative sparks fizzle out. if i can’t sell it what’s the use of investing my time? the truth is you need to carve out time for the creative, because as the creative heart is a muscle that doesn’t keep pumping at it’s prime unless it’s allowed outside to play. @johncleese, one of the people on my creative genius top ten list, revealed the secret behind coming up with brilliant ideas:
“creativity is not about the possession of some special talent. it’s about the willingness to play.” just keep creating for the sake of your soul. throw paint on the walls of your world even if you are the only one who gets it. market to an audience of one—that’s you. and most importantly don’t be afraid to roll your windows down so others can be inspired by the original soundtrack being written in you—whether or not you get a thumbs up.
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liopustrocity .
ustion of creative spark that is followed by o manifest and bring it into existence.
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you may be able to take an ipod everywhere you go, but every time i see a wurlitzer jukebox it just sucks me in... like a crazy magnet.
chrome and fonts...it’s like the most endearing fireplace that has it’s own soundtrack on shuffle.
i would have loved to interview the creative mind behind the wurl...
it would be pretty cool to be a living jukebox.
or better yet just have had the opportunity to watch his brilliant mind at work... I wonder if he was creating a music box from and the crazy thing is, i think it outer space...dreaming of his has that power on most people I next sci-fi novel. see who have a chance to be in the same room with them. the funny think about this beautiful, elaborate styles of this it just takes a few minutes in a music filled jukebox artwork is 50s diner until my girls are that it as released just after the running up to the jukebox and second world war. begging me for all the coins in my wallet to put on tunes by i bet the design was perfectly elvis, the everly brothers, fats poised to market as a beautiful domino or brenda lee. distraction to those people looking for a placed to come to be honest, i’ve never seen together... to celebrate the good anything quite so extraordinary things in life... a place to relax in the history of how we case and dream.... a place to our music. somehow musical imagine...a space to create. history just sounds so much better when it’s blaring out of in fact, when i think about it that this crazy blinged out box could be my life’s aspiration...
the perfect curve of 45s, the neon and its happy face of
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creative stretch
take the post-it challenge you know what i love about books today...they can be so small. seriously, post-it small.
cause goodness knows i don’t have a lot of time to invest in reading novels...
15 words or less on a pretty picture, quick someone sign me up! well, my friend writing is the same way... and I think the beauty in the post-it focus it is that it is an exercise that can make you
write really tight.
every word has to mean something or honey it doesn’t lend to
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the soundbyte—it has got to go. and with technology finding picture inspiration as your writing prompt and writing on your coffee break, in a long check out line is easier than ever or following a group of pokemoners. so each day i challenge you to take 15 minutes and look at a picture, or think about a song, a bible verse, a poem and write anything your mind pulls to the top of it. (i use notes or pages
adobe spark or word swag for your phone and make some quote, thought or verse bling. and this is most important, put it up. on your instagram, your facebook or twitter, or send it to a friend ho might need encouragement or a laugh. do one pin a day for a week and it will become a fun hobby. and soon one day, like me, you will have your on pinthology... a book created one post-it at a time.
on my iphone for my quote journal.) then grab one of those picture app programs like
p.s. be sure to check my #barefacedpinthology gallery out on my website barefacedgirl.com, and get those creative sparks flying.
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@barefacedgirl’s end this sentence interview with comedian
michael jr. 1) If there was a fast food restaurant called Michael Jr.’s its signature menu item would be...some kale that is actually delicious
4) Craziest place you’ve ever written new material… while not sky diving 5) I bought this toy for my kids, but I really bought it for me...pretty much every toy they own 2)Before I go on 6) Something I’ve stage I always do learned I should never this...breathe...in joke about...I forgot… and then out. So it’s probably going to happen again 3)I identify most with this car part...the rear view mirror. It’s good 7) I had unlimited resources I would own looking and it has my this animal...a dog back. summer twenty16 8
8) If I could share the stage with any comedian in history it would be... Probably an unknown, as I like to stand out 9)The first thing I saved up money for when I was was a kid ...Well, a, I really wanted to save but... 10) If a soundtrack started playing when you walked down the street the song would be...You mean you don’t have a sound track playing when you walk down the street? 11) If I had a super power it would be...To bring laughter to the whole world. 12) And my superhero name would be...His-son
“catch them with comedy; keep them with the truth. i thought it as a slogan, and it turned out to be an assignment.”
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funny for a reason -michaeljr.com-
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photo & etched glass art from [vinegar&brown paper] reprinted with permission. . 11.
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I’m in love with vinegar& brown paper, a company birthed out of the mind british award-winning advertising creative andy polar, who decided to quit his job because he needed to do something different with his life... Meet Andycheck out www.vinegarandbrownpaper.co.uk a @barefacedgirl blogazine
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DIGS— willard, missouri PEEPS—ray & heather triplett
“Ya know what I thought the first time I saw you? ...that woman wears a lot of pink.” @legallyblonde
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on wednesdays we wear pink
My name is Isabell. I am an eight-year-old Doberman Diva and as you can see my favorite color is pink. I am a girly-girl like my mom. I love a fresh pedicure, Jammie’s and blankets. I also enjoy wrestling with my brother Henry, chewing meat bones, snuggling with my mom and dad and bossing everyone for treats.!
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“your imagination should be used not to escape reality but to create it.” @colinwilson i remember the first time i ever sat down with a counselor and she asked,
of things as God knows, they warm my heart.
she responded, “would that “amber, if a bird flew right bird talk to you?” over to my window just now, would you say that i said, “MAYBE, was something just special but that only might for you?” be in reference to everyone else’s lack of I said, “of course. that’s because imagination... and to hit I take time to notice those kinds me up for crackers.”
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(n.) someone with a deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature.
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“She asked me, “Son, when I grow old, Will you buy me a house of gold? And when your father turns to stone, WILL YOU TAKE CARE OF ME? @21Pilots #houseOfgold
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just a few beautiful things #goodlove
Just let good love fall where it may And let me catch every drip-drop So that it may be given away To curl up the cheeks To serve you to smilin’ And feasting on good medicine.
Cincinatti Public Librarybarefoot at the book fountain.
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you bring the summer @themonkees #goodtimes
“I’ll bring the chips and the dips and root beer Even though dark purple rain clouds are near When you come around you bring the summer I’ll lay the basket and blanket out neat Even though weathermen say there’ll be sleet When you come around you bring the summer.” Read more: Monkees - You Bring The Summer Lyrics | MetroLyrics
ERIC SQUIRES is general manager and head roaster for Three Crowns Coffee in Warsaw, Indiana, a forward thinking coffee shop and roaster. He is also a coffee correspondent for Perfect Daily Grind. His love of coffee began in high school and continues to grow. He is always looking for new ways to enjoy coffee with his wife, Leilani, and their son, Micah.
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(n.) a woman who is skilled in relating stories or antecdotes interestingly. the barefaced heart -
i love planting blooms and smiles wherever i roam, barefoot & barefaced embracing raw life and simple good. my paint & puddles quarterly blogazine is dedicated to those who love to throw paint on the wall & find beauty in wherever it falls. for those with the heart to create, just for the love of creating. i want to feather my nest there. this is the space where the magic and miracle collide.
philippians 4:8
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Amber Weigand-Buckley is editor & art director of the awardwinning Leading Hearts magazine (leadinghearts.com). She has been in the mag-making business for over 20 years. In her full-time she is wife to her Brit-native Philip & mum to 3 inspiring creatives: Saffron (Soof), Imogen (Moose) & Penelope (Pen-Pen) as well as social media manager & communications support for many non-profits and missionaries.