GirlMeetsArt

A new book came out this month, Women Of Design: Influence and Inspiration From the Original Trailblazers to the New Groundbreakers. I’m not in it. A friend of mine saw my stuff on this blog and said, oh, you should sell your stuff on Etsy. So I went to Etsy and saw literally hundreds of awe- and envy-inspiring pieces, and thought, I can’t compete with this. So, boy, what a way to depress myself right around the holidays. In today’s instant-connection world, it’s far easier to set the world’s best as your own measure. After all, you can easily view thousands of wonderful crafts, paintings, websites, logos, prints, etc. etc. in an hour’s time and even more easily find yourself lacking. At least before the web, if you avoided bookstores and magazine subscriptions, you could more easily fight off that internal critic. (more…)