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As I unpack 2014, I take a look at the more popular blog posts for the last year. I like doing these round ups for several reasons. First, it allows me to share the best of the best with you and second, it guides me in deciding what I should be blogging about in the coming year. I also added some notes about why I think these posts became so popular.

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I have never been one for News Year's resolutions but I absolutely love setting goals for the year. One of the best ways I have found for reaching my goals is writing it down and then sharing it. By making my goals public it adds additional accountability to my goal setting and also by putting my goals out there, like on this blog, it also gives me a permanent place to look back during the year.

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At the start of 2014, I decided to choose one word to represent my hopes and intentions for the year. (You can read more about that in my One Little Word blog post) I decided that "harmony" would be a great word for the year and I have to say that the word served me well.  Hello Harmony When I cleaned my home, I wasn't just "cleaning" but I was creating "harmony." I looked to make harmony...

Summer is here with endless possibilities...

Why should you wait once a year to make a list of goals? To me, summer is full of possibilities that parallels the end of the calendar year, but with much more meaning. 

Why do we make resolutions...

Otherwise known as the unfinished project list by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt

I always have a lot going on in my art world and I thought today I would share with you my art to-do list. I always get asked "Do you still paint?" or "Do you paint everyday?" and although I don't get to make art everyday, I work on my art business everyday. Here is a partial list of everything written down in my...

(goals for 2014 #1: Keep an Art Journal)

A piece of my art journal... using list making to explore myself

Planner Pad got turned into an art journal!

I kept a journal religiously throughout high school and college, using it to pour my feelings out about unrequited crushes and being overweight. Sometime, around the time I met my husband, I let go of the process of writing in a journal. Around this...

Fourteen for Fourteen @schulmanArt

Here I am wearing one of my own designs.

1. Keep an art journal
2. Submit art for publication
3. Join an in person networking group
4. Pursue licensing contracts
5. find more wholesale agreements
6. attend one fabulous art retreat
7. Learn at least one new art technique
8. Build a following on instagram
9. invest more time on pinterest
10. create seasonal and holiday...

My word for 2014 is Harmony by @schulmanArt

one little word: Harmony

Have you heard about this concept yet? Instead of writing New Year's resolutions you choose one word that encapsulates what you want for the year. I've seen a few artists, writers and creative types who declare their word for the year. For example, mixed media artist Christy Tomlinson claimed "joy" and writer and artist Kelly Rae...