
As you may have noticed, I have been making a few changes to my site. First, I am excited to have added a photo page that takes you to my photostream on Flickr. Most of the photos included in my posts on Green Mamma are my own, unless noted otherwise, although I sometimes have a tendency to overdo it and force too many pictures into one post. My solution is to create compact and precise posts (photowise– I can’t make any promises that my prose will become less chatty) and to place other photographs that I want to share over at Flickr.
Other changes include a new page for books that takes you to my bookshelf at goodreads. I am an avid reader and consider books the greatest escape (words can take us so far in only an instant). Plus, I delight in new ideas and love indulging my daughter and husband’s appetite for books too. So far my list of books are shelved on children’s, crafting, fiction, green living, moms’ book club, Montessori, parenting, and friend recommended. If you have any book suggestions for me, let me know. I love, love, love to read.
You might also have noticed with my Talking Trash Project that I am trying to awaken my inner artist and inspire my family to get crafty too. We had a lot of fun spending afternoons and nights making things out of either trash or found art materials. My daughter is a natural born body artist. Whenever we bring out the paint, she is quick to dip in an arm, elbow, or toe and get started in making beauty come alive. I notice that my husband is a more reserved artist who gets much enjoyment from watching the two women in his life create something from nothing. Don’t tell him that I told you, but he is a budding sketch artist too. Just last night he drew a fine alligator. So, you can expect more on our family’s art adventures, and I will do my best to tie these posts into ways to be a green artist or artista povera.
Other technical changes include my experimentation with my site’s header. To create it, I used 3 photographs of the woods behind our house and combined them using Photoshop Elements (believe it or not I let an entire year pass before picking up my P.E. manual to learn how to use it). I am also playing with the fonts, colors, and sizes of things. My web art skills are amateur at best, so please hang in there with me.
As always, there is so much that I want to do, but in time, I will get to it. Change seems to be the theme of my life right now and considering that we are at the cusp of a new season, it would be rightly so.
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