INSPIRATION!
The other day I was reading some blogs that I visit often. I read on one blog that we are consistently offered inspiration but do not make the time to create. This is me...not by choice. Lupus often zaps all of your energy even for doing the simple things of everyday life much less the energy to create, go antique shopping or go out for a meal with DH. Over the holidays I received several wonderful art books and magazines in duplicate copy! So I am going to offer some of my duplicate items as blog give aways in the next several months.
My blog give away for this month is one of my new favorites!
Somerset in love
It has so many wonderful pages of inspiration! The projects are created by some wonderful artist.To enter my blog give away, please leave a comment about what and where you get your inspiration to create. It's that simple!
So start your comments. Comments will close on Friday evening, January 9th. I will post the lucky winner on Saturday morning. This will allow me time to get this wonderful magazine to you in time to create something wonderful for your dear one for Valentine's Day. The only thing I ask is that you in turn post about my blog give away on your blog. OH...I forgot to mention that I always send extra vintage goodies for your creations.
Good luck!
Hope you have a great Wednesday!
Cheers, Sharon
55 Comments:
What a wonderful giveaway! I get my inspiration from blogs like yours and sites like Flickr. Talking and planning things with friends is a huge inspiration as is working on a project with one of them.
It's hard to be inspired and yet not have the energy to do what you'd like - sending healing thoughts and energy your way! :) Nancy
Hi sweet Sharon!! Thank you so much for your kind comment on my blog....I would SO love to win this giveaway!!! This issue looks to be a wonderful one ~ I will post about your giveaway, too! My inspiration comes from the readers of my blog, their precious comments, other blogs and their amazing artistic creations, elements of nature, and wonderful old things that are just waiting to be transformed into artwork....thanks so much, xxoo, Dawn
(I'm sorry about the first comment that I deleted Sharon :) I was helping a friend and forgot to sign in to my blog!)
This looks like a cool book. I found your blog through Dawn's. Please enter my name in your drawing. Thanks, Theresa
I love all the Somerset mag!! This looks like it is going to be a GREAT one. I will mention your giveaway on my blog! laurie
What a great giveaway!! I love the Somerset magazines. I get my inspiration mainly from looking at other blogs. There is so much to see & such wonderful ladies to get to know!
Sharon,
That looks like a great magazine!!
I get my inspiration from other blogs. Dawn's is one of my favorites too. Yours is new to me and I am anxious to check it out too.
She hit the nail on the head for me about taking time to do the things we are inspired by, rather than just sit and get more ideas and not do anything.
That's been me lately. Just can't seem to settle down and get going.
Would love that new magaizne, as I've been looking for Valentine ideas.
I will post your giveaway on my blogs, but don't know how to get your picture there. I'll learn eventually.
Thanks for the nice giveaway.
Blessings,
Barbara Jean
I would love to be entered into your giveaway and will post about you on my blog. Thanks and have a great day.
Lorri
This sure looks like a fabulous publication! Thanks for offering it as a giveaway.
I draw inspiration from the blog world, and also from clothing - esp children's clothing.
Hi Sharon I am new to your blog but when I read it was about inspiration I had to post. I have always had an artistic urge to create. I get my inspiration from everywhere. I can't really pin down where it comes from. But one thing I do know is that life and being busy can get in the way. So when I get and idea I sketch it or tear aut a picture so I don't lose it and I make time to just sit and create. Even a small project feeds that need. I find when I'm stressed it's when I haven't taken the time to just be creative. Sorry long post.
Peggy
I haven't heard of this SomerSet magazine yet..i would love to enter the drawing and I got here from Dawn's blog...
Brenda
Sharon I would love to be included in your drawing for I would love to have that magazine(I haven't jumped on buying it yet). Also I will post a link on my space. You found the best source of inspiration for me... Dawn is one of the most talented, inspiring GIVING souls I have ever had the pleasure to call as my friend. Her talent blows me away!!!!!!! And I am addicted to the Somerset magazines. I spend so much time looking at blogs, buying/looking for goodies & reading the magazines that I don't have much created. I need to change that. Have a great week & I hope you have a lot of interest in your give away.
What a wonderful giveaway!
I get my inspiration from my favorite shabby/antique shoppes, vintage items, and of course other bloggers!
:)
~Becca~
The magazine looks wonderful! Of course, all of their magazines are wonderful! Would love to own this one!
Dawn is a real sweetie as are 99.9% of all bloggers! I thank her for leading me here to your blog and I look forward to "visiting" more!
Very cool! You are right...or she is right...we do have inspiration all around us! Thanks for sharing!
It would be such fun to win this drawing! Even better if I created something from the ideas in the magazine!
I'm inspired by magazines, blogs and the bits and pieces of "stuff" in my workroom. I love looking at something and all of a sudden what it could become "pops" into my head! I love that! Your blog looks very inspiring too! I'll mention your giveaway on mine.
PS I discussed you by visiting Dawn!
oo this would be awesome for v-day!
Thanks for the opportunity to win! There isn't a Somerset magazine publication I don't love! Their publications are incredible! I get inspiration from so many places....billboards, magazines, decorating shows and magazines, other talented gals' works, color combinations, sometimes just an old piece of lace or a piece of vintage ephemera, paint chips, blogs, just a photo I took, a piece of fabric...I think I could go on, but you get the idea....I'm always on the lookout for inspiration!Thanks to Dawn Edmunson for the link to your beautiful blog!
My resolution this year is to be more inspired creatively - so this beautiful book would help me well on my way!
I currently get a lot of inspiration from being outdoors in natures beauty (when my arthritis alllows).
When I'm stuck indoors, blogs and arty sites replace the trees and lakes with all the gorgeous shared eye candy.
This is my first visit to your blog and I've already added it to my favorites! I'm also a January girl (16th) so Happy Birthday to us all!! Please enter me in the drawing because I'm already drooling all over the keyboard just at the sight of the new Somerset! Nice to cyber-meet you!
Thank you for the wonderful giveaway. I find inspiration from many wonderful blogs, such as Dawn's, Bella Ezines and Somerset Magazines.
Dawn's post really hit home w/ me too. I don't have the excuse of lupus either...just a lot of family responsibilities & I seem to have gotten lazy the past few months.
I would love to win your give-away & will post about it on my blog. Nice to meet you!
I read about your giveaway on Dawn's "The Feathered Nest". This looks so terrific. Please enter my name ~~ this is just the inspiration I need! Thanks, Joanne ~~ glamourgirljoanne@yahoo.com
Hi Sharon,
I just found your blog through Dawn's. I find my inspiration to create through the many blogs I read. I have added yours to my favorites. Thanks for the give- away and the opportunity to win the magazine! Mary
What a neat giveaway - I do not have a blog but hope I am still eligible. a.haun@sbcglobal.net
Your website is just lovely, a peaceful interlude in a busy world. Would love to win the magazine.
Mary
www.primitiveseasons.blospot.com
Hi Sharon, Thanks for such a great drawing! I found out about it from Dawn's post on her blog. I have to say this is a perfect drawing prize for me to win because I am a magazine junkie, I have literally hundreds (thousands?) and they are what I use for inspiration, ideas, motivation and just pure enjoyment. I love looking back over old issues and for my favorites, I just cannot cut them up! The Somerset magazines are all fabulous, they are little art museums that take my breath away! Sure hope I win, I haven't seen this In Love issue!
I love, love Somerset anything! This is neat and would be great to see. I actually have been inspired by many of their publications. I guess mostly I get my inspiration from other artists by searching printed publications like magazines, books and by visiting many blogs and flickr. Thanks for your generosity.
Nelly
Happy Birthday Sharon! What a beautiful blog you have. I found you thru Dawn's blog, too.
I get my inspiration from many things..sometimes a story, photo, a pretty color that I may have seen somewhere. In this harried world we live in, it is such a blessing to be able to create, even the tiniest of things!
I would love to be entered in your very generous giveaway.
I am adding you to my favorites, as I am still working on my blog. Just need to take that big step!
Have a lovely birthday...love the music!
Take care,
Lynn
A magazine is always a treat... So is your blog...
Hi Sharon! I've just only discovered your blog, and look forward to exploring! :-) This is a lovely giveaway...I've never read any of the Somerset magazines, and the cover of this one is especially enticing.
I get my creative inspiration from lots of places, but often from the many gorgeous decorating blogs I love to visit. It seems there is always something new to discover...a delightful online world, with a life all its own. And of course, I am inpired by my beloved horses. I have horse accents here and there, because a house is not a home without a herd of horses within eye shot of the windows! :-)
Hi Sharon,
What a lovely little spot you have in cyberspace! I would certainly love to win this giveaway---here in Belgium I can't find Somerset "anything", although I love all their publications. If I'm too far away for you to mail it, I will understand and come back to visit anyway : ). All the best to you~~Kathy
Hi Sharon. You have a very nice blog! I get my inspiration from other blogs, antique stores, old items etc. I just love anything old and love these mags. I would be honored to be entered in your giveaway for this beautiful magazine...please pick me! :)
Blessings!
Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to see what is inside. Also enjoyed visiting you blog. Your love of vintage sewing things made me think of something I have. Girls with button-faces on cards. Posted them on my new blog. rockcandy56.blogspot.com
I love your website!!! I found you through Dawn at The Feathered Next and had to come sign up. I think I see a blog just aching for my Yummy Yummy award!!
Lesley
Hi Sharon, I like your blog very much. Thanks to Dawn for leading me to you. First HAPPY BIRTHDAY, to you today! Hope you have a wonderful day. Make it special! I get my inspiration from nature mostly. Nothing like a good walk in the woods for wonderful ideas to come pouring out. I would love to be entered in you giveaway and I will tell others about it on my blog. Thanks, (another)Sharon www.wildflowerhouse.blogspot.com
Hi Sharon~ I just found you through Dawn. I find so much through Dawn, friends, inspiration, new places, and knowledge. She helps me so much, as I am new to blogland.
My inspiration can come from anywhere. I always have my eye out for new things.
I love the new magazine and would love to win it.
Please, drop by and visit me.
Smiles,
Pat
sometimes I'm inspired by a collection of colors that remind me of a place , sometimes an image will inspire a story in my mind. More often than not , that story will unfold as I work through a piece. Often I'm inspired by other artists.
Thank heavens your question wasn't 'how do you get it out of your head and onto the paper?' lol!
I've heard of the Somerset Magazine through other blogs, but have never read one. How fun and thanks for offering it as a give-away!!!
Melissa
mea0224@sbcglobal.net
i get inspired by everything. a song, a book , nature, my kids, so many things inspire me to create.
you have a great site..
xoxo nita
Hi Sharon:
I found you through Charlene and I just love your journals you just created!
I draw my inspiration through a lot of color I am surrounded by. Monday I was eating a purple popsicle and two hours later I was working on a new necklace with purple stones :)
I hope you have a lovely day and come visit me on my Blog when you have time!
LuLu~*
Hi Sharon! I love your blog, which I found through Dawn. Blogs like yours and Dawns provide inspiration - it's so fun to see others develop ideas, and it often gives me a starting point to go my own way. Also, I work part-time on a real live farm (as a bookkeeper) and having nature and animals around is like working at Disneyland! Endless inspiration. One never knows how or when it will hit. Please enter me into your Somerset contest - they "get it"! Hugs, Cathy
I get my inspiration from blogs, pictures, a need that I see, or my friends.
I get inspiration from magazines and wonderful inspiring blogs. Thank you, Kim at racefankellen@verizon.net
Hi Sharon,
I almost forgot to enter the giveaway for the magazine...
I find lots of ideas thru magazines, blogs and once in awhile my little minds comes up with one:)Thanks for having a giveaway.
Have a great weekend.
Warmly,
Deb
WOW, lots of gals entered your giveaway:)
Hi Sharon! Please enter me in your drawing. I have added your giveaway to my "giveaway" sidebar link. :o)
I would love to win this fabulous book. Our tiny little bookstore only carries Somerset publications once in a great while, so it would be wonderful to actually get my hands on this book! Thanks for the chance.
LOL! I forgot to say what and where I find inspiration to create! I make hand tatted lace and I find inspiration in nature, other artwork, other crafts, boutiques, and in my head...the desire to create a beautiful home...both in ambience and in spirit!
I get my inspiration from some project that I have seen, blogs, books, and my children.
This looks like a cool book. I found your blog through Dawn's. Please enter my name in your drawing. Thanks, Titi of Chile.
Would love this -- Love you rsite , so glad ms dawn posted your giveaway - Kathy - ga
whadda fun give*away! will be visiting agin. came by since i visit dawn. she is the sweetest! has helped me so much with my blog, designed the header & all. love mixed media & the somerset mags. would ♥ to have a chance at this magazine. they are hard to find around here. will keep u in my prayers with the lupus. i am seeing a specialist next month, a possiblity i may have that, or something else... keep on praying & believing & the faith. hugs & blessings, vikki ♥
Love this book, I get my inspirations from the various Somerset books and other bloggers. Aren't there books the best! Thank you for having this giveaway...and a chance to win it.
Kindredly, Lynne Laura
I want to thank all of you for entering my blog give away.
Comments are now closed for this blog. I will be posting the winner on Saturday, January 10th.
Sharon
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