…but i still managed to make a goddess. This is one of my daily 365 Project photos – so far i’m just loving this creativity resolution. I struggle with photography but taking a picture everyday really forces me to think about the subject, framing, etc. Hopefully by the end of the year there will be an obvious improvement…
One of my 2011 resolutions is to complete The 365 Project – take a photo a day, every day and post it online for the full year. I’ve wanted to participate in this online public art project for years but never got around to it – carrying a bulky camera around was just too inconvenient. Now that i have an iPhone though, it’s completely doable and given the multitude of photo capture and editing apps in iTunes, actually kinda fun! I’m hoping this project will really spur my creativity in addition to also improving my photography skills…
So far i’m quite enjoying myself and have lots of ideas of what to post (thanks to the many blogs discussing the project). I’ve decided to keep a completely open mind and capture whatever strikes my fancy rather than maintaining a specific theme. My son (in the pic) and one of my sisters are participating as well and we’re all hoping we have the stamina to last through the full 365 days – seems daunting when i’m only at Day #4!
Sooo… if you’d like a daily peek into my life as a part-time glass bead artist, click the picture above to get to my 365Project profile and subscribe to follow me there… these pics will only occasionnally show up on this blog.
Got this 2010 summary of my blog stats in my inbox this morning and my first reaction was: “Really??” And here I’ve been mentally beating myself up all year for not blogging more (2010 was a record low number of postings for me)… But, i’m bright enough to know that these stats aren’t due to my efforts but to you folks – my lovely readers – who visit both this blog and my Etsy store regularly even though there’s been nothing much happening in either of those places during the last year.
Sooo… first, if there’s anything you’d like to see more of on this blog, then please let me know in the comments and second, allow me take this time to say:
Finally, here’s that summary of the 2010 stats email I received from the WordPress folks:
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 10,000 times in 2010. That’s about 24 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 6 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 125 posts. There were 14 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 3mb. That’s about a picture per month.
The busiest day of the year was January 7th with 218 views. The most popular post that day was My Glass Beads.
The top referring sites in 2010 were europeanbling.com, facebook.com, ottawaglassbeadartists.com, artistsincanada.com, and lampworketc.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for goddess beads, sheba makeda, annealing glass beads, lampworking supplies canada, and annealing beads.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
My Glass Beads October 2007
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Lampwork Supply Sources for Canadians November 2007
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Glass Class 101: Annealing & Glass Beads January 2008
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Tales from the Torch: More pregnant goddesses July 2008
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My Studio October 2007
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batch of encased glass stringers pic run through the iphone Percolator app
Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are raring to go for 2011!
I’ve been pretty absent from this blog this past year… 2010 was a year of extremes for me: when things were good they were wonderful but when they were bad they really well and truly sucked. All of which apparently left my muse in such a state of confusion, she completely abandoned me which meant I had so little creative energy, I barely torched at all in 2010. And what little I did make I wasn’t terribly excited about – at least not enough to put out the effort required to photograph, blog and list everything. Artistically speaking, 2010 can be summed up for me as a great big old… “meh”.
If you’ve been following me on Facebook then you have some idea of what i’ve been up to – it so much easier to do a quick update there vs. here… Anyhoo, I’m back as my muse seems to have somewhat rejoined my world plus I’ve decided to torch regularly regardless to work through whatever creative block I’ve been experiencing… I found not torching left a big empty hole inside me that just couldn’t be filled with anything else.
Finally, this blog is due for a major overhaul. I think a new theme, some updated pages and pictures of my latest beads would do a world of good.
(Coming soon…)
Evelyn Duberry - Glass Artist 