I found out about this service while reading Heather’s blog.  It’s called Wordle.

You paste anything you want in their form online and it creates word clouds from your words.  You can choose the font and the colors.   The possibilities are endless!

I pasted a paragraph from an essay I wrote about my son.  They don’t offer a way to save the graphic file – only print it.  But I have a program called SnagIt that was able to capture the image for me, so now I have the file.

I am so pleased to post this podcast. Terri St Cloud is an amazing person and I am happy that you all get to learn a little about her. I think you will be inspired by her abounding love and energy.

Please take a moment to go to Terri’s site and read some of her bone sighs.  They will reach to your core!

She is now publishing books of her bone sighs, and you can find those here.

After you hear this interview, I know you’re going to want  more, so check out her blog.

Today’s podcast is a recording of a teleclass I presented a couple of years ago when I worked for Artella. It’s about an hour long and it’s an overview of art journaling including types of journaling, types of journals and some techniques that can be used.

I hope you enjoy it.

In the class, I mention that I will share my notes. If you’d like a copy of these notes, you can download them as a Word file here.

I love old Fairy Tale images. My favorite artists in this area are Faust and Goree. This image is one of Faust’s. It’s so creepy and yet beautiful. If you click on the image it will take you to a larger size and you can download it by right clicking on it.

I will be hanging out in the chat room tonight at 9 Eastern Time, if you want to stop by. We had a lot of fun on Tues chatting, so come by tonight and join the goofiness!

Today (Friday) is the final day of Creative Clown’s one year celebration. Thank you to all of you who helped me celebrate. For the last day I want to offer any product I have for 1/2 price. You can order any one product today only for half off. Unfortunately my shopping cart won’t do this kind of function, so here’s how to do it:

Find the product you want and write me at zura at creativeclown.com. Tell me what you’d like to order and I’ll send you the information you need. I apologize that it has to be so complicated, but hopefully it will be worth it to you.

If you haven’t left a comment yet to get in the drawing, be sure and do it today because I’ll be drawing the winner on Saturday. The winner will receive:

Affirmation for Artists
three downloadable collage sheets
a week of personalized creativity encouragement from Zura

Creative Clown is one year old!!! Thank you so much to all my readers. It is each of you that has kept me going even when I felt like I had nothing to say, and when my blog crashed, and when I lost all my posts. It was your encouraging words, and just knowing that you cared enough to come read what I had to say, that kept me coming back and posting.

We’re going to celebrate clown-style!! Every day this week something will be priced ridiculously low! Come to this blog everyday this week to learn what the special sale is for that day.

To start it off, all day Monday (April 7th) the e-Course, “Waking Up to the Real You”, is on sale for $10.00. It’s regularly $25. To get this special price, today only, go here.

Each day this week one of my products will be priced ridiculously low, so come back every day. We’re partying all week long!  Feel free to bring a friend to the party.

Another reason you want to come back every day, is for the contest! Every person that leaves a comment on my blog during this week of celebration will be entered in a drawing. The winning person will receive a special prize package. The package will include:

• Affirmations for Artists e-Book
• 3 downloadable collage sheets of their choice
• A week of personalized encouragement from Zura, based on your own creative goals.

So, hit the comment button and just say hi, and your name will be entered in the drawing. The drawing will take place Sat., April 12th and the winner will be announced here on the blog.

Now, who wants cake?

I want to get some interest in my downloadable collage sheets. They are just like the sheets you buy except with these you have no shipping charges. AND! you can print them out over and over with no loss of quality because you are getting the original high resolution graphic file. You can print them on transparencies, colored paper – whatever you want!

To show you the quality of the images on my sheets, I’m giving away this sheet of images of women. To download yours just click here. Feel free to share this with anyone you think might like to have this free sheet.

If you’re interested in seeing the other sheets I have available, please go here. I have 52 different sheets to choose from.