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- Category: Aisling's Books
- Category: Art Dolls & Figures
- Sock Dolls – Step-by-Step, in Photos
- Sock Doll Swap – Jul 2010
- Choosing Fabric for Your Cloth Doll
- Cloth Dolls – How to Choose Your Doll Stuffing
- Cloth Dolls – Should You Preshrink Fabrics
- Dolls’ Faces – Easy Homemade Molds
- Ambermoggie — doll artist interview — part two
- Ambermoggie – doll artist interview – part one
- Free doll patterns
- Stefania Morgante – doll artist – interview
- JJ Buch – doll artist interview – part two
- JJ Buch – doll artist interview – part one
- Alice C. W. Dennis – doll artist interview – part three
- Alice C. W. Dennis – doll artist interview – part two
- Alice C. W. Dennis – doll artist interview – part one
- Barbie, Clearasil and ‘Green Ear’
- Voodoo Barbie
- Altered Dolls
- Annie Faerie Dolls
- Faerie Grandmother Pindoll
- History of Paper Dolls – Part Two
- History of Paper Dolls – Part One
- More Dangerous Women
- Artfest Doll
- Dangerous Women Reaching for the Stars
- Teal Magic Doll
- Category: Blog
- 2020 – The Year We Decided: The Future is Art!
- Finding Creative Time & Space – Rice Freeman-Zachery
- Art and Inner Critics: Danielle Krysa
- Notes on Tidying Up – A First Pass with KonMari
- The Importance of Your Art
- What’s on Your Desk?
- Our Charlie Brown Christmas Tree – 2012
- Start with Why – Simon Sinek
- Advice for Artists – John Cleese on Creativity
- Grow Your Own Groceries – Back to the Future?
- Got Snow? Snowman Alternative
- Before Spring – A Photo Essay about New Hampshire
- Creative Inspirations – Quotations
- Category: Business of Art
- More Copyright -> A Brilliant Resource
- Stage Fright, Perfection, Flow, Teaching, and Art
- Matthew Diffee and Mother Sea Turtles
- Art and the Economics of Giving
- Copyright, Flickr and Google Images
- While I’m Talking About Public Domain…
- Copyright and Free, Royalty-Free Resources… again!
- Art Journals v. Artist’s Journals
- Why Art?
- In Business? Who Are You Reading?
- Swaps and Documentation
- Swaps and Postage
- Doll Swaps – How the Numbers Work
- Magpie logic
- Cheap Art Manifesto
- Crafts Fair Marketing – On-site ideas
- Planning for your future
- Yahoo Groups – changing moderators
- The importance of leverage
- Beginners, unite! Consign your way to success.
- Recommended: Annual meetings
- Choosing an unjuried show
- Keys to successful art shows: Have fun
- The Quadrants, revisited, by Robin Retallick
- Trademarks, original ideas, and copycats
- Copyright and the ‘three stroke’ rule
- 9 Ways to Communicate a Rock-Solid Identity
- Be friendly at shows
- When a student copies
- Copying and coincidence in art
- Video: 3 step formula for creative success
- Copyright and art
- Be a successful renegade artist/writer
- “Plan B” Teaching
- How to start teaching art
- How much do artists earn?
- How do you face your creative fears?
- Whose fault is it…?
- Ultimate Creative Conspiracy Theory
- Why New Year’s resolutions fail
- How to pace your art classes
- Art, energy and originality
- What art teachers are paid
- When not to teach
- Sell your art locally
- What is ‘true art’?
- Teaching at National Art Events
- Category: Drawing & Painting
- Category: Freebies
- Free “All You Need is Love” Mini-Posters
- Easter Egg Coloring Pages
- Enthusiasm is Contagious – Free Poster to Color (or Not)
- Free Writing Paper – Hippie-Style
- Easy Kitchen Gardens – Green Onions & Mint Cuttings
- Early Selfies 1839 – 1913
- Art and Feeling Good
- New Freebie Adventure
- Fresh Designs – free design book
- Free Zine #1
- Journaling Your Past – Free eBook
- Category: Mixed Media Art
- Art Journaling Ideas – Complex and Detailed (Video)
- Art Journaling? Resist! A Sneaky Way to Add Excitement
- Art Journaling Inspiration – Vintage Diaries (Video)
- Guerilla Art Kit and Other Journaling Ideas – Keri Smith
- Art Journaling – Making the Everyday Different
- Art Journaling Inspiration – Blobs and Monsters
- Cute, Sweet, Illustration-Style Art Journaling
- Mixed Media Ideas for Art Maps and Landscapes
- A Curious Lifestyle and Super-Creative Art Journaling: Dan Price
- Short, Fast Art Journaling Inspiration – Art of Danny Gregory
- Adding Collage Layers in Your Artists Journals
- Art Journaling? Travel Journal Inspiration!
- Art Journaling Backgrounds – The Excitement Starts Here!
- Art Journaling – Make Your Own Magpie Journals
- Art Journaling with Magazine Images – Part 1
- Folded Paper Art Journals
- Altered Book Art Journaling – How-To
- Fore-Edge Book Art – Historical Examples
- Journals as Story Bibles
- Journal Your Way to Happiness
- Art Journals – Beauty is in the eye of…
- The Return of the RR – RR #2 images
- Saving Images for Your Art Journaling and Mixed Media Collages
- Composition Book Artists Journals
- Sewing Onto Your Journal Pages
- Foam Brush Notes
- Artists’ Journal RR #2b – Debbie O’s pages
- Alley Hauldren’s Journey to Winchester, TN
- Alley Hauldren’s Third Journal Pages
- Alley Hauldren’s Second Pages
- Round Robin Journal #2b – Alley’s Art
- Round Robin #2b – First pages
- RR Journal #1 – Final American Scans
- RR #1 – Pages 11 through 15
- Round Robin Journal #1 – ArtistsJournals Group
- Art Swaps – How the Numbers Work
- Torn-Paper Collages – How-to video
- What’s an Artist’s Journal?
- A debt of gratitude, from journalists
- Artfest 2004 Collaborative Journal – 2
- Artfest 2004 Collaborative Journal – 1
- Rubbings in Your Art Journals – Not Just for Halloween!
- Elegant Rubbings with Art Foil
- Easy Embellished Vinyl Tote Bag
- How to Collage in Your Art Journals – 2008 Art Journaling Update
- Wax Paper and Artists Journals
- Gesso – What It Is and How to Use It
- Art Journaling with Mixed-Media Collage – Tips for Beginners
- Artists Journals – My Letter to Erin
- Category: Art shrines & assemblages
- Homage to Dr. John – a mixed media collage
- Breakthrough Shrines – Notes
- Altered Books – Examples
- Edgar Allan Poe Shrine
- Tammy Fae Pocket Shrine
- Superman Mini-Shrine
- Prosperity Pocket Shrine
- Art and Alchemy Pendant Shrine
- Otherworld Shrine
- Superman Shrine – Pringles Lid
- Art and Science of Pocket Shrines
- Elvis Matchbook Shrine
- ‘Create’ Pocket Shrine (winged)
- Creativity Pocket Shrine
- Layering Paint and Polyurethane for Rich Depth
- Embellishments for Mystery & Dazzle
- Applying Plaster Gauze to Your Art Shrine
- Art Shrines – Add Texture with Plaster Gauze
- Edgar Allan Poe Shrine – Free Print
- Asparagus Wand
- Capolan exchange: Relic Room Assemblage
- Family history shrines
- Category: ATCs and ACEOs
- ACEOs – Production-line shortcuts
- ATC – Spalding Inn, NH
- ATC – A Simple Rose
- ATC – City/Stars in pen & ink
- ATC – Desk chair
- ATC – Pen and ink, fan
- ATCs in Pen and Ink
- ATC Tutorial 4 – Memories – Finishing the ATC
- ATC Tutorial 3 – Memories – Giving it meaning
- ATC Tutorial 2 – Memories – Adding more layers
- ATC Tutorial 1 – Memories – Digital ATC
- Haunted New Orleans (#1) – ATC
- Nevermore – Gothic ATC – Edgar Allan Poe
- Midnight in New Orleans – ATC
- Memories – A Digital ATC
- Reality/Imagination – A free poster and Artist Trading Card (ATC)
- Face Behind the Words – Free digital ATC
- Gold Leaf – ATC Tutorial
- Gold Leaf – a Free, Printable ATC
- Ghosts of the Old Saloon – a Texas ATC (R-rated)
- Everlasting – free digital ATC
- Dreamcards – from an ATC swap
- Dream – a free digital ATC (artist trading card)
- Choose Your View – printable ATC
- By the Light – printable ATC (artist trading card)
- Free ATCs to Print
- Category: Letterboxing
- Category: Mailart & Artistamps
- Disneyland Tribute for My Mom (Fantasyland game)
- Artistamps – Digital swaps! (2010)
- Resizing Your Art for Artistamps
- How to make a Sheet of Artistamps with Adobe PhotoShop
- Perforations for Artistamps
- Real, Exotic and Foreign-looking Stamps
- Glues and Adhesives for Artistamps
- Glue Recipes – Artistamps
- Artistamps – Definition
- Aisling’s Artistamps 2000 – 2005
- Art Day 2005 Mail Art Call: Art in the Streets
- Category: Zines
- Category: Quilts, etc.
- Category: Resources
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