Carrie Bloomston https://www.carriebloomston.com/ Artist, Author, Creativity Enabler, Speaker Wed, 04 Jul 2018 18:11:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 My next fabric collection…DREAMER! https://www.carriebloomston.com/next-fabric-collection-dreamer/ https://www.carriebloomston.com/next-fabric-collection-dreamer/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:32:28 +0000 http://carrieblooms.wpenginepowered.com/?p=3816 I can finally share my next fabric collection with you. (You know it is so hard to wait nine months before I can share.) But here she is…World, meet DREAMER!!! This sweet, fresh, bohemian collection is filled with layered patterns I made both with my typical collage technique and by hand-painted watercolor. This collection is a love song to the […]

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]]> https://www.carriebloomston.com/next-fabric-collection-dreamer/feed/ 193 Why I Quit the Gig Economy and Got a Day Job https://www.carriebloomston.com/quit-gig-economy-got-day-job-one-artists-story/ https://www.carriebloomston.com/quit-gig-economy-got-day-job-one-artists-story/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2018 06:59:42 +0000 http://carrieblooms.wpenginepowered.com/?p=4100 By Carrie Bloomston We had a business for seventeen years, my husband and I. It wasn’t a scalable or glamorous business. It was just him and me in painter’s clothes working in houses one by one. We painted murals and did faux-finishes and generally painted and glazed all of Scottsdale a warm Tuscan gold or […]

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]]> https://www.carriebloomston.com/quit-gig-economy-got-day-job-one-artists-story/feed/ 13 Summer UNPLUG inspiration and some thoughts on SLIME and FIDGETS https://www.carriebloomston.com/summer-unplug-inspiration-thoughts-slime-fidgets/ https://www.carriebloomston.com/summer-unplug-inspiration-thoughts-slime-fidgets/#comments Sun, 18 Jun 2017 20:57:33 +0000 http://carrieblooms.wpenginepowered.com/?p=4009 I’m writing in my head all the time. Well, actually not in my head. In my body. Since I’m constantly urging people to turn off their minds in their creative practice when I teach art, painting, creativity, vision board workshops, I can’t say I’m writing in my head. More of the torso, actually. I feel […]

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]]> https://www.carriebloomston.com/summer-unplug-inspiration-thoughts-slime-fidgets/feed/ 2 Playful Fabric Printing book party and giveaway! https://www.carriebloomston.com/playful-fabric-printing-book-party-giveaway/ https://www.carriebloomston.com/playful-fabric-printing-book-party-giveaway/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2017 18:27:41 +0000 http://carrieblooms.wpenginepowered.com/?p=3834 I’m so excited to share your new favorite book today! It’s called Playful Fabric Printing. Have you ever wanted to play with fabric printing or making your own cloth? This is the book for you. I’m a little biased though. My amazing friend, artist, textile designer, and activist, Melanie Testa, teamed up with Carol Soderlund […]

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]]> https://www.carriebloomston.com/playful-fabric-printing-book-party-giveaway/feed/ 56 108″ wide quilt back NEWSPRINT in stores near you! https://www.carriebloomston.com/my/ https://www.carriebloomston.com/my/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2016 02:32:05 +0000 http://carrieblooms.wpenginepowered.com/?p=3763 Hello! I’m so excited to announce that Windham Fabrics printed my Newsprint fabric in 108″ wide quilt back cotton and it is zooming to stores near you…in fact it might already be there! When I created my newsprint four years ago, I made a print that I knew I needed in my own stash. I LOVE newsprint […]

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]]> https://www.carriebloomston.com/my/feed/ 3 Amy Butler’s Piece Keeping blog party! https://www.carriebloomston.com/amy-butlers-piece-keeping-blog-party/ https://www.carriebloomston.com/amy-butlers-piece-keeping-blog-party/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2016 04:04:24 +0000 http://carrieblooms.wpenginepowered.com/?p=3745   It’s a party! I was thrilled to be included in the blog party and G I V E A W A Y in celebration of Amy Butler’s newest book, Piece Keeping! Amy is a gorgeous, inspiring human on many levels, not least of which is her generous soul. (Plus I learned to sew six […]

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]]> https://www.carriebloomston.com/amy-butlers-piece-keeping-blog-party/feed/ 101 Where Women Create https://www.carriebloomston.com/summer-solstice/ https://www.carriebloomston.com/summer-solstice/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2016 22:29:50 +0000 http://carrieblooms.wpenginepowered.com/?p=3737 Hello and happy summer. I hibernate in the summer–I take time to unplug from media and obligations, be with my family, and clean and organize the corners of my house. I did this long before I fell in love with Marie Kondo’s Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up (which I did last summer). If you haven’t […]

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]]> https://www.carriebloomston.com/summer-solstice/feed/ 1 Happy Spring … 20% off WHALE PRINT! https://www.carriebloomston.com/happy-spring-20-off-whale-print/ https://www.carriebloomston.com/happy-spring-20-off-whale-print/#respond Sat, 09 Apr 2016 19:27:23 +0000 http://carrieblooms.wpenginepowered.com/?p=3728 Hello there. Long time no see…or I guess I should say, long time no say because I haven’t posted here in a few months. I hope you are well and good and emerging from nature’s cocoon of winter. Our spring here in the desert has been warm and lovely. The garden bed is singing to me–the heirloom […]

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]]> https://www.carriebloomston.com/happy-spring-20-off-whale-print/feed/ 0 More connection in 2016…less iPhone https://www.carriebloomston.com/happy-holidays-2/ https://www.carriebloomston.com/happy-holidays-2/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2015 21:45:14 +0000 http://carrieblooms.wpenginepowered.com/?p=3702 If you read this blog, I just want to thank you and wish you happy holidays. I honestly don’t know how to interpret backend blog analytics or to understand if my numbers of readers are good or bad, high or low. I’m kinda low-tech. But still, if there are ten of you (other than my mom) […]

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]]> https://www.carriebloomston.com/happy-holidays-2/feed/ 5 Join me at Craft NAPA! https://www.carriebloomston.com/join-me-at-craft-napa/ https://www.carriebloomston.com/join-me-at-craft-napa/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:27:16 +0000 http://carrieblooms.wpenginepowered.com/?p=3675 Are you ready for the new year? I’m thrilled and honored to be teaching at Craft NAPA in gorgeous Napa Valley, California at an incredible new retreat created by Pokey Bolton. She is bringing together many fabulous teachers for this event to get your creative juices flowing and help guide you into your creative passion. […]

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