Whoohoo! The first blogpost after sending out the first module of the first offering of the Journey to the Golden Fleece Fiber Creativity course! This is what I stared at (with some large degree of triumphant-ness I must say) on my screen for a few minutes this morning after sending out the mail with the module link: Mailchimp, our bulk email platform. I do like how quirky it is 🙂 And it felt pretty good to be (virtually) high-fived
In just a few short days, we embark! In last week’s newsletter, we talked about some pre-course homework to help you get warmed up for what is to come. That assignment was to collect five images each of that make you happy, sad, thoughtful and creative. I know a number of you have created Pinterest boards and shared the link on the Members Only Forum Thread and the Group’s Facebook page. I have created a board on Pinterest also and
Here we are with a new blog post, an update, a headsup, and a warm up 🙂 What direction are we heading?! First the update, because this is super cool! We have some progress pics of our Majacraft looms currently being made! We will let you know as soon as they are ready to ship, there are quite a lot to be cut out and engraved with our special course logo, but it will be worth the wait, and, for
Just one more day to launch time! It seems so long to wait! But time is all relative isnt it, when I look back at the time we have spent developing the course and the website, it seems to have been both forever, and no more than a few moments in time 🙂 Today I would like to share with you some of the artwork I have created to go with the course materials. There is a quite specific reason
One of the main areas of focus for Arlene and I during all our course development, is the idea of community and mutual support among fiber artists. In the context of our ‘Heroes Journey’, Â community is what we think of as our ‘crew’, the people who are willing to cast off with us and sail together into the unknown, ready to face whatever should befall us, back to back, shoulder to shoulder. Â I don’t believe that creativity thrives in isolation,
Monday afternoon progress report! Arlene is in San Francisco, pretty much exactly where I would like to be right now too! We currently have storm conditions in the Netherlands, while I am absolutely positive that Arlene is swanning around SF under clear sunshiny blue skies, listening to tram bells and enjoying some good food (Rice A Roni!!!) and, you know, sparkling waters over the bay stuff… So it’s just me (Suzy) posting today, Â left here in the cold and dark
Hello and welcome to the FiberyGoodness.com blogpage! As this is our very first post here I (WoolWench) would like to tell you a little bit about what we have been busy doing these last weeks, or rather, months! My utterly fantabulous partner in Fibery Goodness is Arlene, of Spin Artiste. Together we have been plotting, planning and producing an entirely new kind of Fibery Goodness course, one which has us both running-in-circles excited 🙂 It has been quite a process