a manifesto for us all
written by Jen on Friday, August 4, 200613 Comments
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This you should make into a print! I think we all need to read it!!!(I sure do!) i love your art
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Jen, I love the manifesto…I am going to post it on QuiltersBuzz and link to your site. Did you do the graphics? Gina
Love the manifesto. Love your art.
this ist wonderful… and SO true!
i don´t know how others think about it, but i have issues with all of those rules… maybe i should write them down an pin them to my wall in a huge size, so i don´t forget them… (or ignore them
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DEFINITELY words to live by!
yup, I think you should print this baby up….Feedback has been great and you have inspired others…Someone wrote up a quilter’s manifesto…following your lead…Gina
GREAT manifesto! Those are words to craft & live by! A print of this would terrific. Crafter everywhere should hang it up in their workspaces as a gentle daily reminder. Just last week came across your blog, it’s beauitful, and so is all you create!
[...] browsing through some of my favoured blogs (i need to keep up - i´m weeks behind it seems) i stumbled over some very, very true words over at artful jens blog.she made a piece of art to remind us of some things we all sometimes seem to forget (or, in my case, simply ignore them *grin*).hope she doesn´t mind me quoting the words of her manifesto to pronounce on it (don´t take it too serious, though!):* get organizedwell, my sewing room is a mess. i tidy up from time to time, but one week (or one projekt) later it looks just like before. i always seek something. be it the one and only right button i know i have had or the pattern i put aside to sew it “some time later” or my scissors. i always loose them.* tidy up your messuhm. i´m a chaotic person. i wipe off the table with my hand. what falls down is going to the trash. then i take other things i used and put them from my cutting to my writing table. from there they´re transported to the floor, when i need to write something…* use what you havegoddamn! call me the natural born shopper. seeing something means wanting it. not that i neccessarily buy it, but there always will be “the other” fabric i need for the project i want to make. and mostly it´s not the fabric i have handy.okay, i´m trying to get over this the last weeks.* sell the excessO.Osell? my? fabrics? never-ever!you want them? you´ll need take them out of my cold hands after you rolled my dead body away from it.* finish what you startexcept from that blouse, the hand-appliqué for dsis, the bra … everything´s finished (or will be finished in the nearer future). …* put your plans into actionhardest part. there are so many plans, and so little time!i have to admit that there´s sometimes hardly time to make the neccessary… so often “great” plans are postponded-postponded-postponed… and finally are not realised.you see, i´m a BAD human being. how about you?do you have issues with those points or are you an angel-like role model for us all?very-merry:me and my inner madhatter
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That’s perfect! I think I REALLY need that next to my computer screen too
Speaking of multi-taskers, Red Instead is a blog by a mom in Australia who runs a home business creating jewelry, bags, art and crafty items…and the occasional manifesto for “crafters” which, quite frankly, is just as useful for non-crafters too.
love seeing your art journals on flickr! glad u are back! hope your arm is better! I just love this one above! yes, I need those reminders too! everytime I see your pages I want to start up my journal again! great work. I love your blog too! glad I visited.
Lia
This is wonderful. I agree. You should sell prints.