Made With Love: More Mail Art!

It's Mail Art Day!  I cant tell you how much this project has blessed me, especially right now while I am experiencing a very hectic and stressful month in my creative world.  I truly believe that reaching out and connecting with other creative in whatever capacity you are able is the best way to stay positive and motivated in your own artistic work.  We all need encouragement when pursuing our passions and to know that we are not alone in our struggles and triumphs, and the journey of art making is no exception.  Here are the beautiful creations that were sent to me this week, by some very lovely and talented women. 

First up is the amazing Micki Wilde of the Secret Hermit.  I met Micki online about a year ago, through our blogs and just fell in love with her sweet and whimsical girls.  She was also a huge encouragement to me as she is also a mom and totally understood my struggle to balance making and selling art and being a stellar mother.  Micki, your package truly brightened a very stressful day for me and brought me new energy and perspective.  Thank you, thank you for your sweet and generous spirit! I adore this piece you sent and it will continue to bring me daily joy as a part of my inspiration wall in my creative space. 

This beautiful digital artwork came from Maureen of The Starry Me.  I love the shapes and colors she created from this flower photo.  I literally got a instant huge smile on my face when I pulled it from the envelope, such a peaceful and calming image.  Thank you so much for sending it to me!  It is a very special piece. 

***(This leads me to mention that you dont have to be a painter or a sketcher to participate in this mail art exchange.  Whatever your medium of creative expression is perfect, and there are no rules or restrictions, OR LEVELS OF TALENT required.  As long as it is something you created from you heart, it is welcome!)

And finally, I received a beautiful piece of collage art and a very sweet note from a new friend Tina.  I love the way she uses commercial images to create something completely different and truly her vision.  I am honored to have been sent such a lovely collection of her work.  Thank you Tina! Your images and sweet words were an encouragement in my week.

If you want to know more about this project, just click HERE or on the Made With Love button on my right sidebar.  For everyone who has sent me mail art so far, THANK YOU, what a wonderful way to encourage each other.  I mailed off all of your mail art envelopes from me on Friday (except for Micki, which will mail tomorrow), so keep and eye out for them.

XO, HARMONY

A Friendship Created through Art... Mail Art Exchange

I recently jumped in on Mindy Lacefield of Tim's Sally call for a mail art exchange that she put out on her blog.  I absolutely love the idea of exchanging art of all kinds with other creative people and didnt hesitate to whip up a fun 4X4" piece for her and send it out in a brightly painted envelope.  Yesterday, I received my reply from her! Isnt it adorable?  I have always loved Mindy's art, have been honored to get to know her a bit through the internet, and she has consistently been a huge inspiration for me to take risks and follow dreams in my art process.  Getting an envelope full of her artsy goodness this week made me feel more connected to her and more in general with artists like me trying to live out their dreams.

Then I started thinking, what if we just kept this thing going and many more artsy/crafty people needing connection in their creative process started exchanging mail art?  We could spread smiles and encouragement all over the world!  I know that I dont have many artistic friends here in my hometown working to make a living from their creative passions, and often I feel a bit isolated in my journey.  I am also in the phase of my life where I am growing a family, and my babies are little, so this Mommy is pretty tied down for a few years, no matter how badly I want to attend an art retreat or creative connection event somewhere across the country and find my creative tribe that way.  This is exactly why the internet connections and friends I've made through my blog have been so important to me, and help me feel a part of something greater than just me alone in my art room making things I think are pretty or important.  So here's me saying, let's connect!  Send me your art!  I'd be honored to send some of that magic back your way to encourage you as well.  Let's call this project MADE WITH LOVE because it will be exactly that!

I hope to post pics, of the art I receive, here on my blog and would be honored to include a bit of a story along with them.  If you feel brave and want to share a piece of your heart with me, send me some art and tell me a bit about you as well... why you created it or what your creative journey has been, or whatever your spirit desires.  It's all about connecting and creating an encouraging network of creative friendships.  This is will be an open on-going call, so at any time, this week/next month/next year, that you want to send me something you've created, I will receive it with a grateful heart and be overjoyed to send something back to you.

My Address:
Harmony Lenasbunt
2401 SE 12th Terrace
Gainesville, FL 32641

**FYI: If you are interested in joining Mindy's mail art call, (which you totally should, because she is amazing!), just visit HERE for the details.

XO, HARMONY

Discovering New Friends... Sponsor Love.

Today is a rainy day outside my window.  A perfect day for cuddling with my kiddo reading books, building sheet forts in the living room, and baking our favorite chocolate chip cookies, oh yeah and drinking as much caffiene as I am allowed, being preggo and all, because this grey day makes me want to nap.  It's also a perfect day to share a few of my bloggy friends with you.  These amazing women are also bloggers, fellow creatives, and are recent supporters of Feed Your Soul Art!  I am really excited to collaborate with them this month, and you can look forward to seeing them again throughout September with some really fun guest posts, creative process interviews and a REALLY big group giveaway.  Here are the first group of them.  I would encourage you to click on their links and visit their virtual worlds.  They really are super talented and very very inspirational. 

Get to know more about Jill here: BLOG   TWITTER   PINTEREST   FLICKR

Get to know more about Kristin here: WEBSITE   BLOG   ETSY   

Get to know more about Ashely here:  BLOG   PINTEREST  or EMAIL to ashgreeno@gmail.com

Get to know more about Shari here:  BLOG   ETSY   FACEBOOK

Get to know more about Ryn here: WEBSITE   BLOG   FACEBOOK

Get to know Citlalli more here: BLOG  ETSY  FACEBOOK

Thanks for giving a little love to my new sponsors.  I'll be back tomorrow with lots of new art journal pages to share with you.  Have a lovely Tuesday!

XO, HARMONY

Free Sponsorship! Getting Dreams Off the Ground

Happy Friday Everyone!  Today I am talking directly to those of you who have a blog or site that focuses on anything in the artsy/crafty/creative world.  I have a friend request for you.  (Yes, that is a doodle of my 28 week pregnant self with paint on my face.  It's pretty much how I look right now)

Now that I am finished with my graduate school degree and am so excited about finally going full time into my dream of creating a business from my art and this blog.  So this is where I need some help from you.  Actually this is the part where we can help each other!  I currently pay for advertising on other wonderful artsy/creative blogs and really want to expand my readership to others from different sources.  I am working as hard as I can to offer new and dynamic content and inspiration on this blog and am posting every day.  I cant afford to buy more advertising, but I thought maybe I don't have to.  I am sure that there are many people out there just like me putting their heart and soul into getting their creative blog's wings up and going and are looking for ways to get their stories more visible.  Is this you?

 What if we teamed up? Basically, what I am talking about is swapping sponsorships on each others' sites and then offering a few different promotions during the month to help offer our readers a chance to get to know our new creative friend.  I am really excited about this idea! It would be free!  I would love to do joint giveaways,  have guest posts, perhaps do some shared themes one week where we could do our own takes on the same idea, and/or share sales or feature a product that you might make and sell.  I am totally open to any ideas that you might have as far as how this could work and will do as much or as little as you feel comfortable doing yourself.  If this gets you excited and you want to be my bloggy friend, send me an email to feedyoursoulart@gmail.com and let me know what you are up for.

More information about this can be found under my Sponsorship Tab at the top bar, so please check that out.  Thanks for listening to my idea, and I cant wait to hear from you!  Tomorrow I'll be posting a new creative play video, documenting art making with a three year old.  It's messy, fun, colorful, chaos.  This week we painted fabric to be used in some future exciting projects that I'll be sharing with you, so please stop by and say hello.

XO, HARMONY