CIB - good to be back!
It hit me yesterday during an email exchange with Michael Libbie that I had not attended a Central Iowa Bloggers meeting for awhile. This is a monthly gathering of enthusiastic bloggers and social media users, and for the longest time I had a standing conflict with their normal meeting date/time. Then I changed jobs… but [...]
7 Things About Me!
I’m delighted to have been tagged by Brett Rogers over at BeatCanvas to participate in a meme called “7 Things You Never Knew About Me.” I’m supposed to share some things about myself that might surprise you… and then “tag” (invite) a few other folks to participate. Here goes:
1. My first job was reading newspaper articles [...]
Meet the Artists of HeArt Fest: Tammy Coy
Tammy Coy - known to her fans as By Coy or The Word Girl - is a native Iowan currently living and producing unique “word jewelry” from her studio, Eclectic Creations ByCoy, in Grimes. In addition to her art, Tammy’s hectic life includes working as a dental hygienist and being a single parent to an [...]
Finding more Iowa and Des Moines blogs and bloggers: the I List, IowaBlogs.net
A few items worth mentioning if you are looking for more Iowa-based blogs to read:
There’s been a list circulating of Iowa Bloggers called “The I-List.” It originated over on Drew McLellan’s marketing blog, and I’ve been wanting to find a way to share it with you, but as different bloggers talk about it on their [...]
Meet the Artists of HeArt Fest: Sherresse Buzard
Sherresse Buzard lives in Afton, Iowa and is a Studio Art instructor at Southwestern Community College in Osceola. She currently works primarily in watercolor, acrylic painting, and traditional drawing but has worked in many other media as well. Her work reflects her keen interest in surreal and dream images, as well as nature, plants, animals, [...]
“Captain of My Heart” celebrates faith, conjures 70’s pop favorites
Recently in my day job, I happened to meet Tim Cooper, the A-V guru for the Iowa Events Center. Tim mentioned he was a musician with a page on MySpace. I clicked through, and turns out Tim writes, performs and produces original praise-and-worship music.
Now I am vaguely aware that today’s Christian music sounds a lot different from [...]
Meet the Artists of HeArt Fest: Carroll Danbom
Carroll Danbom is a wildlife and landscape artist working in pastels and acrylics at his studio and gallery in Red Oak, Iowa. He is primarily self-taught, but also attended the Omaha Art School. This will be his third appearance at the HeArt Festival and he will be demonstrating acrylics at his booth. He notes that [...]
Meet the Artists of HeArt Fest: Rachel Sims
Rachel Sims is a 26-year-old jeweler and beadmaker, working primarily in silver and glass. She uses a beadmaking process called lampworking, which consists of melting a ’soft’ glass over a torch, winding it on to a ‘clay’ coated steel rod called a mandrel, and manipulating with metal tools.
For the past six months she has been [...]
Meet the Artists of HeArt Fest: Christian Holmes
Christian Holmes is a Des Moines native now living in Creston, Iowa. He will be showing his work in pryography (woodburning) for his first exhibition at HeArt Fest and says he hopes the show will result in some good exposure for his work. He also works in digital painting and some traditional painting, including oil, [...]
Summer vacations revisited
Hey remember the link round-up I did last summer collecting up a bunch of your summer vacation blog posts? Now that we are firmly entrenched in the deep freeze I thought it might be fun to see what everyone was up to back when it was 80+ degrees hotter than it is now.
Joel - have [...]
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