The fourth annual ONE WORLD ONE HEART giveaway will be starting SOON!!  From January 25 to February 15 bloggers around the world will be giving away items.  This giveaway is WORLDWIDE – one of the requirements is that you MUST be willing to ship (for free) worldwide.  Last year someone in Australia won my giveaway.

All the details regarding the 2010 event can be found here: http://awhimsicalbohemian.typepad.com/a_whimsical_bohemian/one-world-one-heart.html. Lisa of A Whimsical Bohemian says “The original idea behind this giveaway event was to bring bloggers together from around the world who may never ordinarily meet. It closes the gap of the blog community and enables us to interact, discover new and wonderful people, and in the process possibly win a prize or many prizes along the way.”

There are many bloggers involved (911 in 2009) from many countries from all over the world. Lisa continues “it’s a coming together like the giant community we are on this planet. If only it took a simple giveaway to create PEACE everywhere, in the mean time here we give from our hearts. … KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT…..therefore you must be willing to ship globally should your winner be from out of the country.”

I am very excited and plan to participate … and it is international.  One of my cards with a vibrant, colorful painting will be the prize. So some of you from other countries may well join in.  It will officially start January 25 – that will be the post that your comments will be chosen from.

Thanks so much for coming by!
~ Diane Clancy

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This Earth Day vibrant, colorful painting shows humanity taking a leap into our next level of awareness so that we may live more in harmony with our environment.  Today is Earth Day – let’s all do what we can to make this planet and ourselves healthy for humanity and all living beings!!  Each step we make helps ourselves and all others!   Many of us are in the process of being more aware, concerned and thoughtful about multiple issues.  It is amazing all the wonderful groups and concerns that come into my InBox at Facebook.  Pretty incredible and inspiring.  Many of us are working to make our foot print on the earth smaller … and looking for more ways to reduce our impact.  Yay for all of us participating in this consciousness!  And there is so much left that we still need to do.

Hopefully with the new leadership in the US taking a role in leading the way with these environmental realizations, there will be lots more progress.  It is so important that we do this at the micro and macro levels!!  Thank you to everyone who contributes to caring for the earth!  What do you do to contribute to caring for the Earth?  What do you want to do in the future?  What would you like to do but just can’t imagine doing?  Any thoughts are appreciated!

Earth Day, Digital © Diane Clancy

Today most of the day has been spent resolving the stressful situation.  I think now it is clear what the issues and outcome are – I don’t like them but they are set.  Some things could get changed and some not.  After knowing, it becomes necessary to accept what cannot be changed and move on to creating and living a life of joy as much as possible!  Thank you for stopping by!!  I would love to hear how YOU are!

~ Diane Clancy

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Kelly Turner has featured me on her blog “Kelly M. Turner, It Comes from Within.”  Some of what she said about me is “(Diane) has been such an inspiration to me in assisting me in connecting with other artist. … She was so patient with me and gave me link after link, and contact after contact.” Kelly continues “Diane is an exceptional lady, she has helped me continually in giving me sound wisdom in getting my artwork to other artists and colleagues of hers. Her expertise in this field is dynamic.”  This is quite a lovely testimonial to me! Kelly says even more about me and you can read it on her blog.  Kelly has featured one of one vibrant, colorful paintings.

Please check it out! Kelly Turner’s blog is here and here is the post that I am included in! Please check it out!  Thank you, Kelly! Here is some of what Kelly says about her own creative process “My paintings reshape the process of the subconscious mind. I usually visualize and characterize the thought process before it gradually evolves to an idea. I have always been fascinated with nature and objects that enhance my focus. My method uses analogy and reality.” – very interesting!

Still having a hard time here … but I want to share this with you and hope you have some ideas about how to name this image!  I am behind on replying to Twitter, Facebook, regular email and all my lists for the groups I am in.  Things have gotten pretty far behind – but I need to rest.  Thank you for understanding!

Name IV, Digital © Diane Clancy

Thank you for stopping by! I would love to hear about you!!

~ Diane Clancy

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Mark Forster has a time management system – AutoFocus. You can test this for free. A free call about using Social Media (Facebook) for marketing is happening tomorrow.

Many of my regular readers know that I have been on overwhelm mode for too long. I found out a resource that I want to share because it is working so well for me.  Mark Forster has a system that is close to what I have used when I am functioning well … but with a couple of important tweaks.  There are a lot of resources at his site  http://www.markforster.net/ but what really excites me is his AutoFocus System – free to test and it will be free to everyone once it is fully tested.  I am very delighted to be putting it action today.  It has helped me break through the chronic overwhelm I have been struggling with – for too long!

Circus Whimsy, Digital © Diane Clancy

They are wanting new Beta Testers (no pressure, drop out at anytime).  Here is how you sign up:
http://www.markforster.net/blog/2008/12/22/new-developments-testers-wanted.html. To volunteer, all you have to do is this: enter your email address in the “Sign Up for my Email Newsletter” box in the right-hand margin (link above), and then on the page that comes up tick the box marked “Beta Testing” and press the Submit button.

There is another free call about using Social Media (such as Facebook) to boost your business. This call is tomorrow (Tues, January 20, at 8 pm).  Leesa Barnes is offering this free call in preparation for a huge, week-long Social Summit Meeting which starts the next day. But we can listen to this call and get some more good tips from her site http://www.marketingfit.com/.

To sign up for this free call, go to here http://www.marketingfit.com/free-preview-call/ – which will take you to http://www.socialmediatelesummit.com/2009/. You need to scroll down and down and down to find the sign up form – but it is there. There are also recordings available if you can’t listen to the call … so I encourage you to sign up if you want to use Social Media to market.

This new dreamscape is definitely one of my vibrant, colorful paintings … are you enjoying this new dreamscape series?  I would love to hear how you are doing. Thanks for coming by!!

~ Diane Clancy

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ProfileLinx.com puts all your social networking links on one page. It is a free, fun, useful site that puts all your links together so your friends can find you everywhere!

ProfileLinx.com is a new site I have found – one that puts all your social networking links on one page. It is a free and extremely useful site that makes it easy to see all the places that your friends are hanging out on the web!  Here is my profile http://profilelinx.com/dianeclancy/.  This way it is a lot easier to network and connect and do all that cool social networking!

Aqua Fantasy, Digital © Diane Clancy

I am featured in a blog, AsTheCrackerheadCrumbles, the other day with one of my vibrant, colorful paintings .. There are some other lovely pictures on this post also … please go check it out. Here is the image that is on the blog – but go check it out there. Angel Love is a great gift for a Valentine – you can find it here at Etsy. It is also available in other sizes if you would like.

Angel Love, Digital © Diane Clancy

I would love to hear from you how you are doing. Thanks for coming by!!

~ Diane Clancy

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Monday, December 1, was Worlds AIDS Day and I wrote quite a long post about my 15 years as an HIV/AIDS activist.  This odd little image is sometimes what it was like to be so engrossed in the world of HIV/AIDS – all encompassing and disorienting.   I told you I wanted to share one more part about the organizing we did during those years …  So I will.

Floating, Digital © Diane Clancy

I am very tired because we just prepared everything for the fair on Saturday and Sunday …. but I promised you I would tell you about this piece … so I am going to dive in … we’ll see how far we get today.

We called our group the AIDS Community Group of Franklin County (Mass).  This shows the focus we had on empowering the community – both people with HIV/AIDS, those affected by HIV/AIDS, and the rest of the community too.  We felt (and still do) that it is in everyone’s best interest that all people get treated with respect and also have their needs met.  We wanted to live in a community where everyone was seen as having something to contribute … and gaining from being part of a larger community.

We had no idea that this was a novel or unusual way of thinking about things … it just seemed the correct way to go about approaching solutions to this issue.  We ran into some issues with social service agencies that thought we were naive and ignorant. Now there is a fairly large industry around HIV/AIDS … and that it a very different orientation.

One day several of us were at a meeting and someone gave a keynote speech about the difference between social service models and empowerment models. (I can’t remember the name that the speaker used for the model that was different from social services).  Those of us there picked up our ears … ah, there was a name for what we were doing and other people were thinking about it too.

Often a social service model treats people like the problem .. thus something to be fixed … the people are the problem.  The solutions are also seen to lie outside the individuals involved – the system treated or fixed or served them.  (Sort of like the old model of medicine where the doctor was God and the patient was not part of the equation or team).

In the community empowerment model the people and the community are seen as integral to the solutions … they are not the problem, but rather the answer. Ah, yes, I am remembering a little more as I am writing.  It is the difference between seeing the assets of people rather than their deficits.  The social service model tends to see the problems and the lack, and the community organizing model tends to see the assets of community and individuals – what they have to offer, not just what they need.

We were intuitively organizing this way … it sure made sense to me!! (And actually I was the creator and coordinator – surprise!) It is how I mostly see the world – it is mostly part of my personality and world view.  The group attracted lots of people who had never done any organizing before and who felt incredibly empowered by contributing to the community like that.  It was great and as individuals we were also empowered!!

Several of us were articulate about our model and we took the show on the road (we were asked to).  We did some trainings around New England at different HIV/AIDS meetings and conferences.  It was a very exciting and empowering time!!

It was also very validating that a model that we had created from our own life experiences received such notice and acceptance.  It was thrilling that there already were theories backing up our ways and thinking.  Very wonderful – and exhausting – time. Thanks for listening to my story!

This is long enough that I a going to continue it one more day … probably to Friday or Saturday.  I want to share something that I read about once that is wondrous to me … about organizing some welfare recipients had done.  To me, it is an extension of this – and I tell my memory of the story as often as I can because it is so exciting.

Thank you for coming by!

~ Diane Clancy

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I have spent much of the day working on my Facebook page and making a Facebook page for my business.  My personal page is http://profile.to/dianeclancy and the page for Diane Clancy’s Art is http://artist.to/dianeclancy.  There is a cool application that allows one to make Memorable Names – the name of the application begins with Memorable if you want to use it on your own Facebook.  Feel free to become my friend and please become a fan of my Diane Clancy’s Art page.  Hope you are great!!

Summer Birds, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

First of all, Chris O’Byrne and I have a project we have been working on .. he wrote a post about it today … I hope you will read his post and check out our new project!!

Kara Jones of Mother Henna had a post a few days ago about the One World, One Heart GiveAway. I had never heard of it … I think thi sis the second year. Lisa Oceandreamer OWOH has a blog here which lists all the blogs involved and gives the details.

Conundrum I, Collage © Diane Clancy

Lots and lots of blogs are giving away items – to show love and build the blogosphere. So once I knew, how can I resist? My give-away will be one set of the cards that I had been telling you about in the marketing story – and we will get back to it.

Reflections in Blue I, Pastel © Diane Clancy

You have until February 13 (at least at most blogs) to leave your name and join in each blog’s give-away. If you want to win the give-away, leave enough information for me in a comment to this post so I can get a hold of you.

Reflections in Blue II, Pastel © Diane Clancy

Make sure your email address is a valid one and not one of the no-reply ones. Please do not leave sensitive info like your address or phone .. I can get your address when you win!

Mother Watching All, Oil © Diane Clancy

I will accept all entries until 9 pm eastern time on February 13and then the winner will be announced on February 14 … and then your gift will be coming your way!

Sight, Collage © Diane Clancy

Here are more details if you would like to participate. There are tons of blogs participating … so gone on over and check them out! I know I plan to!!

Anticipation, Collage © Diane Clancy

The prize is one 6 pack of these cards. The size is 4.25 x 6″ and they are professionally printed. I look forward to seeing who wins!!

~ Diane Clancy

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Recently Sue O’Kieffe of Sacred Circle Mandalas surprised me by honoring me with this very special award. You Make My Day.

What a nice thing to say to anybody. The question is, how often do we do it?
A special kindness , a smile, a laugh, an unexpected compliment, a hug…all these gestures come and go. Do we tell those who add an extra lightness the joy it brought? I do not mean to be preachy here. It’s just, well, I hope you do. We need to let those people know, even if it is just a passing acquaintance in a line at the store, the extra ease they bring to us, if and when they do. Light and love gets passed this way. Moments of the day are brighter for everyone involved. (These ways of making people’s day are copied from Sue’s blog … I thought it was part of the award … I think she has done a wonderful job elaborating on how to share joy!!! And why try to improve on perfection.)

Midnight Purple, Digital © Diane Clancy

So here are the rules: “Give the award to up to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel so happy about blogland! Beware! You may get the award several times!”

Sue’s blog, Sacred Circle Mandalas, is a wonderful blog! It is one of the first art blogs in the blogosphere that I could find – it was sure a relief to find someone who valued art. Now, of course, I know many people – but she was the first. Se has gorgeous mandalas that just make my heart sing. Day after day she puts out beautiful, spiritual images. Lately she has expanded her repertoire … but still uplifting!! We are also both artists who are working at marketing our art and have had a great time supporting each other on many levels. Sue also commented almost every day back when almost no one else knew about this blog!! Sue, You Make My Day!

Tomorrow you will get to find out who I am passing this award on to. There are so many deserving people and today I need to rest … so thank you for witnessing my award and tomorrow I hope you will check back – after I have chosen among all you wonderful readers! No easy feat!

~ Diane Clancy

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I know some of you loved yesterday’s colors … but these are the colors that really feed me … I just love them!! Colors like this make heart sing and make whatever feels heavy a little lighter. I will keep creating in the other colors that others of you like too though … don’t worry.

Ocean Dreams, Digital © Diane Clancy

Jean Levert Hood asked me a question about BlogCatalog, so I went and figured it out. By the way, Jean has a beautiful blog here. “Diane, I do have one question. How do you get BlogCatalog to know you’ve updated your blog?” I found it once and I found it again … so here goes. Here is my BlogCatalog. Go to profile (top of right sidebar), then go to the second section of the middle (“My Blogs”), click on “manage blogs” (tiny little link on top right of this section).

You will go to a new page. You will see your blog listed … on the right side, there is a title called “Actions.” Click “manage” – one of the 3 choices under Actions. The 5th section down on the page is “Thumbshot.” There you will see a button “Update My Thumbshot” – click that. I cannot imagine how I ever found that once (I too wanted mine updated), never mind twice. But at least now we can look back here! Thank you, Jean, for asking!

NicoleB Photography asked me to be part of her Artists Unite section of her blog. I am showing you to her About Me section since I think it is a good place to start with her photography blog. NicoleB is currently living in Kuwait – I think you will find her interesting. She has photos from her travels.

Nicole also has asked me to write posts … particularly showcasing some of my work for sale. Here is the latest post. Here is my other post if you want to see it. It is fun to connect with others in different parts of the world! Other artists are welcome to joint Artists Unite … I think NicoleB wants more artists! NicoleB is very much on top of her email (in my experience). If you leave a comment in an email saying you want to join, then she will get back to you. If you have an Etsy Shop or such, it could be one more way to market your shop!

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BlogCatalog is a really cool place to meet lots of other bloggers! I stumbled upon this place last September and have met several wonderful people there. My profile there is here. I have been writing about it this week and I have heard that it is being helpful to go into so much detail … so I am going to continue. You may want to go back to Sundays and Tuesdays posts to catch up.

Regeneration, Digital © Diane Clancy

First, to speak a little about this next painting in our Simple Pleasures bubblescape series. Those who know my work, know this is a different color range than I usually use. But when this image came out this way, I feel it has a lot of power, a very deep, earthy power. It took while to figure out its title. I ask the paintings what they are wanting to say and how they want me to present them to the world. I feel this is about regeneration and a deep, deep healing and redoing. I hope you enjoy it!

Back to BlogCatalog. We have finished with the center column and through “Shoutbox” on the right hand column. Next is “Broadcast.” This is a part of the sidebar I have discovered within the last week – chagrin here. When you join a “neighborhood” (see the other posts, it is saying you are interested in someone else’s blog – so you join the neighborhood), you then actually become part of a neighborhood. When someone posts a blog post on their own blog (like this one), they can choose to “broadcast” to their neighborhood about this post.

Not everyone broadcasts each time, but it is a way of knowing what someone’s new post is about. You can also leave a comment about the broadcast if you like. If you have set your notifications to inform you when you get a broadcast, then you will get an email each time one of your neighborhoods broadcasts.

Now for the fun part .. I had been getting broadcasts for quite while now. I have made a few myself. When I got one from someone else and I wanted to make one, it gives me a button on that right sidebar to make a broadcast. But only last week, I found out, not only are all the broadcasts I have received on the right sidebar … it also has a link “Post New Broadcast”!! Will wonders never cease! This makes it much easier to make a broadcast. You can view “All Broadcasts” and they will move to the center of the page in a list.

After Broadcasts (we are nearing the bottom here), there is a section called “Discussions.” Probably those are my own discussions that I joined. That must be it. I think I might have joined a few that sounded interesting. You can view “All Discussions” and they will move to the center of the page in a list.

Finally, there are “Neighbors.” I had to go look at it to figure that out. So neighbors are those who joined my neighborhood – those who want to receive my broadcasts. As before, you can view “All Neighbors” and they will move to the center of the page in a list.

I will do one last piece and then call this done unless and until you have questions or requests. If you click your blog (or one of your blogs), under the blog will be “Recent Viewers” – those who clicked on your blog link in BlogCatalog and looked at what you said about your blog. They may or may not be your friends or in your neighborhood.

The next section is your “Neighborhood” – these are the people who “joined your neighborhood” and receive broadcasts. Then is a list of your “Recent Posts” – this is actually from your blog (like this one) and lists your recent posts.

After that is a neat section called “Comments and Reviews” – I never knew about this until I got a review. You can see what people say and how they rate your blog. At the bottom you can make comments and reviews yourself – you would generally do this on someone else’s blog section.

One last thing that I have noticed in writing these posts. On the right, partway down, on the page that features one of your blogs, is a section called “Related Blogs.” This actually looks quite interesting and I will have to check out some of these blogs on my sidebar!

I hope this series has been helpful to you. Please feel free to ask questions or clarifications and I will do my best – or someone else will respond. Happy Blogging!

~ Diane Clancy

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On Sunday I posted about BlogCatalog – you may want to read that first. My profile at BlogCatlog is here. So, continuing from that post, in the center column, after “My Profile” and “My Blogs,” is “My Communities.” It took me quite awhile before I figured about what all that meant! OK, call me a slow learner – it gets a little overwhelming to me to learn about all the different formats and ways of being around this blogosphere.

Whimsy, Digital © Diane Clancy

“My Communities” are some of the social networking sites that are around. You can see on the side bar of this blog a list of my communities – BlogCatlog offers lots of cool little widgets that you can put on your blog. This little widget you can see is showing what some of my social networking sites are – like Flikr, and Facebook. Of course, BlogCatalog showcases only a handful of these sites … but they are some of the biggies like YouTube and MySpace. I particularly like that BlogCatalog gives people a place to put these sites into their profile.

If I like someone on BlogCatlog or through blogging like from this site, then I will like them elsewhere too. I find it fun to connect with people in a variety of ways. Sometimes people start these things with a network – like most of the kids at a certain college .. well, they have their initial friends cut out for them. But I am just an artist, in a rural area, and it is very nice for me to be able to connect with others across these different social circles!

Other widgets show who has been viewing your blog, who your neighborhoods (see the other post to see what they are) are, discussions (I haven’t entered into that yet if ever), your groups (which were covered the other day) and communities – which I love and which I have finally put on my blog after seeing it on numerous other blogs. This takes care of the center large column.

Moving to the right hand column … At the top is your name and also links to your profile and your account. A friend called me a few minutes ago and he wanted to know how to get back to his own page from mine. So thank him, Tom, for my telling you this. It took awhile for me to get this piece too. So click profile to get back to you … and account for settings and such.

Under that, is a link to edit your profile (the pencil) and create the widgets we have been talking about. Skipping to “Shoutbox.” Shoutbox allows you to leave messages for people – and they can be either public or private. If you want private, make sure you click the “private” button – I know obvious – but I missed that one the first time.

You can click on the link below an icon (person) in the shoutbox … BUT at the end of the Shoutbox list, is a box that you can put a shout into … so that is good. Took me awhile to find that shoutbox at the bottom too. You would use the shoutbox at the bottom of this part on someone else’s sidebar – when you want to leave them a message.

I just get overwhelmed by all the options!! I am sure I am not the only one. So, Shoutbox is just a way to message someone very easily. The profile is a magical place where you can do many things.

I think I better finish this tomorrow … or else it will go on too too long! If you would like to see the post I did today at World Gallery on Shades of Color, please check it out.

~ Diane Clancy

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BlogCatalog is a really cool place to meet lots of other bloggers! I stumbled upon this place last September and have met several wonderful people there. My profile there is here. (I am doing this on the big computer as I am printing some clients’ paintings and cards … it is so clumsy for me after always using the laptop!) The main page is here but you can join from anywhere (that is, any page on BlogCatalog).

Pleasure, Digital © Diane Clancy

This is another painting from the Simple Pleasures bubblescape series that was inspired by Ruthie Hochman of Ruthie’s Reason. She has some news today that you will want to go read if you have been following Ruthie at all … here is the link to her blog.

Back to BlogCatalog. You can make friends there – as most social networking places allow. It is easy … you click a link on their page (after you join) and they become your friend. Hey, if only offline were so easy!! Then they will be notified and will often become your friend too.

They have a list of their blogs and a short description of what they are about. I have listed only this blog since it is my primary one. If you click on their blog (as listed in BlogCatalog), then you can “join the neighborhood.” This means that you are connected to their blog at BlogCatalog. In your profile will be a list of your friends and another of your neighborhoods.

I am telling you these things because it took me a long time to figure this all out. I found BlogCatlog by accident, as I said, so I had no one to help me learn how to use this resource. I am not 20 or 30 or even … and I was not born with this info … or getting it by 5 or 6 years old. It takes me a little longer to learn all these things that are hard-wired into the young!

In the middle column, you have “My Profile” which is a few sentences about you. Then “My Blogs” which is where you list your blogs and a few sentences about them. “My Communities” are next and we will talk about that Tuesday (tomorrow is for Illustrator Friday). For a preview, you can look at the sidebar of this blog.

Then comes “My Friends” and “Recent Viewers.” After that is “My Groups” – you can join lots of groups with certain topics …. I am not very sure what the purpose is yet. “Neighborhood Blog Posts” comes next. After you join a neighborhood (someone’s blog that looks interesting), then their recent posts come up on your page. Lastly, “My Neighborhoods” are at the bottom of the middle. This is a list (with icons … all these come with icons) of all the blogs you chose to follow by joining the neighborhood.

I will tell you more about “My Communities” and the sidebar another time. I just learned something new there within the last 2 days … I hope this is helpful to you!!

~ Diane Clancy

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Many of you know that I belong to WWAO (Worldwide Women Artists Online) which is an international organization of women artists who market our art for sale on the web. It is a very cool group and exciting to be with an international group like this. There is a new page up “Baby, It’s Cold Out There” (obviously, the people who were kind enough to set up this show are in the northern hemisphere) … Many months an artist will offer to put up a show that features one piece from any of the artists who want their work shown. I have a piece for the first time. It just went up tonight! Some of the art is gorgeous!!!

Freckles in Flowers II, Digital © Diane Clancy

This image is for the Pet Monologues is the blog which I directed you to showing that incredible video about the lion hugging the woman who rescued him. I sure was moved and I think many of you were too!! Also they highlight art, poems and more that showcase animals every week. You can see there blog here. And this is the post for this particular challenge. Many of you have seen my sweet little kitty before – we lived together for almost 18 years. I hope you enjoy the images there!!

Many of you know about Bloggers Choice Awards where we all (once you register) get top choose the best blogs in lots of different categories. It is an honor to be even suggested … never mind win. You can check them out here. Someone wanted to nominate me for a best blog in Art. But there is no category for art. When I wrote today, they suggested (nicely) to put it in hobby. They have something like 37 categories and many a lot less obscure than art. How about we all write and request an Best Art category … then we can recommend some of our favorites!! Here is the email info@bloggerschoiceawards.com. I encourage you to write so we artists can have a little niche too! Thank you!

Lastly, someone asked me today about how to do their signature like mine … I want to share “Diane Clancy, <a title=”www.dianeclancy.com/blog” href=”http://dianeclancy.com/blog”>www.dianeclancy.com/blog</a>” is the code I use to leave my little footprint. This leaves an active link so people can go right to your blog. Some of you may remember how people kept going to my Blogger blog instead of here .. so some of you asked me to do this … and helped me learn how. Please let me know if you need more help.

A few types of blogs have probelms with this code. With TypePad and LiveJournal blogs I leave “~ Diane Clancy, http://dianeclancy.com/blog”. I hope this helps a few of you anyway! Thanks for coming by!!

~ Diane Clancy

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