Life-Enhancing Articles for Artists and Other Creatives

Get into the Holiday Spirit — Finding True Joy!
By Karen A. Dahlman
December is a month that is synonymous with the holidays, gatherings, gifting, good cheer and wishing peace on earth. It is also a time of frenzy as you attempt to continue with your day-to-day life while also preparing for the added events that this time of the year brings.

This Is Just My Day Job
By S.C. Giles
As an artist you are not your work whether it be your day job or your art. Learn to step beyond the confines of your day job label and experience your artistic life.

Alternative Living Spaces: Life in a Yurt
By S.C. Giles
Artists have always found creative ways to live inexpensively, but today's economics make it even more challenging to live cheaply, especially when rents can rise to as much as many people make in a year and mortgages are off the Richter scale.

Building Healthy Self-Esteem
By Karen A. Dahlman
Your road to a healthy self-esteem is paved by your choices in the present. These tips will help you to develop your self-esteem quotient in your personal and creative life.

Finding Balance
By Karen A. Dahlman
Living a balanced life may conjure up images of balanced scales, being a “superhuman”, feeling even-keeled and in control. Is it possible to live a balanced life?

Art and Life Are On: Artella’s Waltz of Words and Art
By Eugenia Toledo-Keyser
Artella combines art, music, poetry, “prosems” (prose and poems) collages, paintings and little surprises and pockets neatly put in certain pages. The magazine is like the stages of a butterfly; the reader is the person who will ultimately “make it fly” or transform it into a rich piece of literature.