Today’s quiet artsy post is just a combination of a few of my favorite .gif animation files of butterflies from around the web:

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I regularly read a few design blogs just to get some inspiration and see some pretty pictures. One of the blogs that I really like is SF Girl by Bay. And there’s a post over there this week that I’m adoring. It’s a selection of different inspiration boards (and walls of inspiration). I don’t have [...]

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One of my favorite things about social networking is that you can learn about stuff that you might never have discovered on your own. Case in point - someone I know posted a question about lomography and I got curious about what that is so I started looking into it. It turns out that it’s [...]

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There are a wide range of different topics that I write about on a regular basis. My favorite topic of all is probably creativity. In fact, I try to take a creative slant to almost any other topic that I write about (although I wouldn’t say that I always succeed). I believe that writing about [...]

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I have a series of art pieces up in my room. Each is a photo of an individual that I took out of a magazine. I then glued it to canvas and painted on top of it to change the original image. Today’s photo is a picture of one of those art pieces. What do [...]

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I love to check art books out of the library. They’re too pricey to buy most of the time but they’re also really inspiring so it’s great to get them for a few weeks to get a creative burst and then return them.
One of the creative books that I just checked out is called Fabric [...]

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I was going through my computer bookmarks and came across the web page of an artist that I’ve been eyeing. I’d originally bookmarked the page because she’s a San Francisco Bay Area artist who does work that is kind of sexy. I have a blog, San Francisco is Sexy, that I’d planned to write about [...]

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I do a lot of different types of crafts. I do fabric crafts. I do scrapbooking. I do collage work.
Doing crafts means that I frequently have to figure out a way to adhered one thing to another (such as a photo to a scrapbook page). I have used all different types of glues and tapes [...]

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I recently did research into the relationship between movies and mobile phones. What I learned from this research is that there are three main ways in which movies and cell phones are linked:

People watch movies on their cell phones. More and more phones are getting advanced enough to be capable of watching streaming or downloaded [...]

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I’ve just been writing about eclectic wall art displays over at Houzz.com where I frequently collect photos of different interior design themes that I’m interested in. I love the idea of creating entire wall displays of art that doesn’t necessarily go together but that’s made to look right together because of the way its hung, [...]

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