Beauty and Spirit Abound
How do you like my new blog design? I thought, it needed a bit of a feminine touch, so I got my friend Yahya to help me out. Let me see, a bit of Magenta (its not pink guys!) here and there, some curly wurly flourishes to accent my titles, some soft fadeouts topped [...]
I’ve talked before about the benefits of blogging for artisans and Jewellery maker Jenny Vorwaller who runs the excellent blog True Nature has agreed to do a small interview with me. Jenny’s blog is a very entertaining read. She’s a very fluent writer and describes with great eloquence and enthusiasm her daily experiences in Montevideo [...]
I follow closely trends on the internet and am fascinated by the emergence of social network sites. Most people are familiar with Myspace, which I’m not a big fan of, but I am very keen on a social network/bookmarking service called Stumbleupon.Stumbleupon is based on the principle of serendipity. You stumble almost from website to [...]
Voting commences now on the irish blog awards. Thanks to all those of you, who nominated me in the best specialist blog category. To vote me into the final shortlist, you need to go here. There are a lot of great blogs in this category, so I don’t hold any expectations, but would appreciate your [...]
The Irish Blog awards are coming up shortly and I would like to ask you to nominate me for this. Normally I wouldn’t be bothered with something like this, but my Chinese Horoscope, tells me I should avail of all opportunities to celebrate this year, so I feel kind of compelled to. If you think [...]
Today I would like to highlight 3 artisan bloggers who recently left comments on my blog. Above you see the lovely porcelain bowls of Shannon Garcon. Supporting the idea of blogging for Artisans, Shannon sais “I am from the Umbrella Collective and living in rural Australia have found blogging to be a lifeline in keeping [...]
Regular readers will know that I like to promote blogging for Artisans. In Ireland Rebecca Allen is the trail blazer in this respect. Even though she is blogging only for a short time, she has had significant success with it. I wrote here about her experience and some of the reasons why I think she [...]
I got an email from one of Irelands top Black and White photographers, Philip Pankov the other day and it occurred to me that I haven’t profiled any photographers on this blog yet. Philip is originally from Russia and you can see from his photographs that he brings with him the eye of an outsider. [...]
