Tag Archives: Resolutions

Jan12

Creative Juice #76

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Articles to inspire you.

My husband doesn’t have the board game gene. I have no one to play with. Sigh.
Why we will miss Sue Grafton—what she did to the mystery genre.
Mount Fugi seen from the air with clouds streaming by.
Quilt guild show and tell.
Do you want to keep your resolutions this year?
16 thoughts for creatives.
50 interesting books.
It’s not too late to join this daily art challenge for 2018.
Are you still making the same old fried eggs for breakfast?
Beautiful photographs of animals, people, and exotic locations.
I am so jealous of this artist’s journal. She’s so talented.
I dislike big box churches. Why aren’t there more churches like this one in the United States? A church should be beautiful. Give me arches any day.

Jan5

Creative Juice #75

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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First dose of Creative Juice for the New Year!

I can hear you.
Eco-dyeing paper.
Beautiful art quilts.
The beauty of the American Ancients.
What? You don’t have a 2018 calendar yet?! Print out a template, and decorate each month to suit your fancy! Lots of ideas here.
Have you made your New Year’s resolutions yet? Maybe you could borrow some of these.
Because I enjoy listening to Christian contemporary music, I was interested in this writer’s 25 best Christian albums of 2017. I’ve never heard of any of these artists other than Jeremy Camp.
The best Christmas story I read in 2017. I know we’re done with Christmas, but read it anyway. It had me rolling on the floor.
And yeah, I know, but here are some excellent suggestions for Christmas reading next year. You might want to bookmark this article.
The art of political cartoons.
I love these beautiful Zentangle designs.
Now that New Year’s has come and gone, what do the words of Auld Lang Syne really mean?

Dec23

Creative Juice #21

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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It’s hard to be creative with the holidays looming, right? Here are a dozen articles to get you in the mood:

Things to do daily that will ramp up your creativity.
Gorgeous plates.
Writers need heroes.
Would you devote ten years of your life to making a hexagon quilt?
A creative look at New Year’s resolutions.
I love this artist’s yearly tradition with her children.
I am dying to sit in this chair. Doesn’t it look comfy?
What? All out of gift tags? Well, print some out.
Yessss…cats and tattoos together at last!
The pitfalls of rushing through your pre-Christmas housecleaning.
Beautiful photographs.
How to get smarter.

Dec29

I Resolve . . . by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Doing Life Together

Many years ago I gave up on writing New Year’s resolutions. It seemed to me like an exercise in futility—by February I’d forgotten whatever good intentions I had the month before.

It also seemed incorrect to call it a New Year’s resolution, since I was making the same ones year after year.

The Encarta Dictionary has 13 definitions for the word resolution. I would like to look at the concept of the New Year’s Resolution in light of 9 of them.

Process of resolving—the process of resolving something such as a problem or dispute. We make resolutions in response to problems. We see something in ourselves that needs changing.
Decision—a firm decision to do something. This is my conundrum. If you make a firm decision to do something, you do it. I forget about it.
Determination—firmness of mind or purpose. This is another thing I’m wishy-washy about. I’m only…

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