http://gomakesomething.com Eliminating excuses since 1999 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:54:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Your Make It Mondays challenge is to create a piece of artwork inspired by coffee, tea, or your favorite hot beverage. Your goal is just to make something---anything at all. You can draw, paint, collage, journal, whatever. Let this be the week you stop making excuses not to create!Have fun, ... http://gomakesomething.com/blog/111708tea/ This is my latest tool purchase: a Zutter Bind-It-All. It punches holes and binds with their double-O wire bindings. I haven't played with it much yet, but I did manage to bind a bunch of index cards together to test it out. Does anyone else have one of these? Do ... http://gomakesomething.com/blog/111508binditall/ Make yourself a cup of tea, and settle in for an endless stream of vintage collage goodness, courtesy of the members of the Vintage Collage Art group on Flickr: http://gomakesomething.com/blog/111508slideshow/ Every year, I try to do a couple of articles about recycling Christmas stuff into something new---and I usually don't get it together to do them until after the holiday season. This year, while I was hunting through new holiday stuff at the dollar store, I had an idea that ... http://gomakesomething.com/ht/decos/giftboxbooks/ Comments are a wonderful thing. They give a blogger feedback on what they've written, and let them know that they're not alone on the Internet. Writing is a lonely thing when you can't tell if anyone is reading your words. As I'm writing this, Go Make Something has over 1,600 approved ... http://gomakesomething.com/blog/111508ettiquette/ Enter a magical world created by Texas artist Stephanie Rubiano, filled with winged figures from a bygone eras: http://gomakesomething.com/blog/111508boxes/ I visit a lot of blogs in the course of my work week, whether it's checking pages that have linked to my various sites, reading articles that friends have suggested, looking at the artwork done for the various challenges, or just random surfing. One of the most annoying things I encounter ... http://gomakesomething.com/blog/111408ettiquette/ It's that time of year again... The annual printable image countdown to Christmas will begin on December 1st. Each day until Christmas, a new printable image will be revealed. Previous countdowns have included collage images, gift packaging, tags and tag pockets, faux postage stamps---well, pretty much anything that falls out of ... http://gomakesomething.com/blog/111308countdown/ This week, I've found quite a few links to Go Make Something in blog posts that contain finished project images from this site. That's a big no-no. Under the terms of use, reposting any content from Go Make Something is prohibited. Capturing images, uploading them to your blog and using them ... http://gomakesomething.com/blog/111308ettiquette/ I've been writing on the Internet since 1996. That's a long time by blogging standards! Over the course of moving from site to site, and changing from static HTML pages to Greymatter to blogging with WordPress, some things haven't changed. There are certain basic ideas that used to be called nettiquette ... http://gomakesomething.com/blog/111208blogging/