living, learning, and keeping with the times
Today I’m very pleased to announce the winner of the Mingle Magazine giveaway! This gorgeous publication is going to the lovely Nancy Janiga!
Many congratulations, Nancy. I’ll be sending it on it’s way to you today.
This photo of Xanthe was my submission, and I’m bursting that it was published!
So much gratitude to Kim Klassen for hosting Finding Stillness | 2015, Gigi Thibodeau and Diana Foster for submitting to Mingle Magazine, and Stampington & Company for providing me with a copy.
Today I’m sharing a few more buildings as seen on my Rivers, Manitoba Walk-About Town, and first up is the loveliest Xanthe Berkeley wishing you all a Merry Christmas!
Xanthe is also participating in the #nablopomo challenge this month.
Oh, and I was not intending to be posing in any photos, but because I was wearing this beautiful yellow throw (taken from the sofa in The Studio) I had no choice …
But let’s quickly get back to the lovely Xanthe … she’s so darn sweet!
And say hello to the amazing and beautiful Diana Foster who is equally as sweet …
OK, it’s Saturday afternoon and I need to get dinner ready … where oh where does the time go?
Day 7 #nablopomo
I am in desperate need of some new contact cards.
In September I’ll be travelling to Brandon, Manitoba, Canada to take part in “Finding Stillness|Autumn 2015” with Kim Klassen and about a dozen other creative souls from around the world (insert squeal here) … it feels so surreal …
Among other things, I’ll be participating in 3 days of styling, shooting, and editing still lifes in The Studio (Kim’s new real-life, bricks and mortar studio.) I can hardly type this without getting up and jumping for joy … but it’s a few months away, and instead of jumping around fruitlessly, I need to get prepared.
When I was planning for Blissdom which I attended in November of 2013, I created business cards and had them printed at Costco. Now, nothing against Costco … they did a superb job of printing and delivering my order … it was my design that stunk … truly stunk … in a word … boring.
Not long after, Kim wrote a post about using Instagram photos for contact cards … I was thunderstruck! What an amazing and creative way to share information … one side was printed with a photo from Instagram, and the other side was for contact information such as your blog url, IG feed, Twitter account, email address … etc. It was brilliant. Who’s going to throw away a tiny piece of art? I would hope no-one would be able to bring themselves to do that! I mean, I could randomly sprinkle my cards all over town, sharing my mini-masterpieces and spreading the word about my blog.
When I attended “Gather California” in 2014, I didn’t have any new cards with me and I regretted it wholeheartedly. But not this time. This time I’m going to have plenty of lovely images to help spread the word about Keeping With the Times.
There are many companies that print contact cards: Social Print Studio, Moo, and Artifact Uprising are just a few. I’m doing a bit of research and will be happy to report back when I’ve made my decision and had them printed.
Thank you so much for stopping by, and have a wonderful day!