YOU GUYS!! I am really excited. I found out yesterday that my blog was the readers choice for faith/arts/media/design blog for 2009 in Collide Magazine. And it was SERIOUSLY only because you guys voted. I don’t want to sounds weird, or cheesy, or sound like im gonna make a speech or anything..It’s not like I won a grammy or anything close to that.  but I do want to tell you something.

This actually really does mean a lot to me and I will tell you why. I am that girl that does a lot of things but NEVER is the best of anything. NEVER ANYTHING. There is always someone more skilled, more crafted, better educated, more creative, more focused, more driven, and with a better business plan than me. haha. and I am okay with that. I have always understood that i am not a rarity or a gift to the world for creativity… but I seriously just do what I love and I love what I do. and I LOVE to create, make things, and attempt to live out what God has created me to do.
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Brian and I were out to dinner last night with Ryan and Lindsay Guard.. When Ryan leaned over and said “hey congrats on the nomination.” hhaa. and I was like… “for what?” He proceeded to tell me that Flowerdust.net did a blog post mentioning that her and I were the ONLY FEMALES represented in the nominations for Collide Magazine Readers Choice Awards for 2009. Flowerdust (Anne Jackson was nominated in the category of theology/ministry)

I was really humbled and honored to have been nominated under the Faith & Arts category. Because I am just writing what is on my heart and the projects that I am excited about. So even the fact that I was nominated is a real shock to me and I am quite grateful for that. Collide Magazine has a BIG heart and I am very thankful for them. They graciously featured the Art For Huruma Project numerous times to help get the word out. They are rock-stars. They have extremely interesting articles, great layout/design, and culture relevant content. Super RAD!

If you have been encouraged, inspired, or have enjoyed participating in the conversations on this blog, would you please take a minute to vote for my blog over at the readers choice awards? You can click on the banner above or go HERE to vote. Voting will remain open until Monday, December 14 at 9am CST. Winners will be announced in the January/February 2010 issue of COLLIDE.

I know this is kind of a weird request…but I would love to hear your thoughts about how this blog community has inspired/encouraged you in anyway… if any. What has been your favorite blog post here?

The posters and t-shirt have been shipped, and the numbers have been calculated. I am very excited that $2530 gets to go to the Huruma children’s home in Kenya Africa. This project was a great first trial run. and I am very pleased with the result for this first time. Thank you to everyone for ordering, and spreading the word about the project.

A few people have contacted me saying that we were featured in the new collide magazine… and I FINALLY got one in the mail to seee for myself. HAHA. It’s so fun to see a project so dear to my heart featured in a magazine that i deeply respect. I know by now, you guys are probably tired of hearing about Art for huruma. haha. Well it’s almost over. BUT I seriously had so much fun working alongside barton damer and using our gifts and talents for the greater good. I encourage everyone to try a project similar to this, thinking outside the box to give to others with your art. SO fun. It is awesome that a project like this can help bring awareness in a fun way, while giving, using our talents/ abilities, then resulting in actual funds to send to the orphange.
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I was so honored when COLLIDE MAGAZINE’S Barton Damer asked to feature some of my fine art paintings in there magazine. Collide magazine is an amazing magazine talking about some hot church topics, in a really modern and fresh way. They give church culture and conversations a very sexy and appealing look, while talking about some really relevant issues about missions, church vision, church leaders twittering, and my favorite… how the media and the church converge. Therefore i am stoked and honored that they would choose my artwork to be a reflection of their magazine and message. One painting at a time will be displayed like this in there next few issues. Go online to get a free trial issue. you will LOVE it.
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I am so excited and honored to have had a featured interview with church design guru, Barton Damer. Barton definitely has a fresh spin on design and its culture. It is really refreshing for me to see such motivation and excellence being displayed in a church format. Like a lot of you, I have seen his work around in magazines and such but it wasn’t until we both got featured HERE that I really fell in love with his unique take on art. I featured a couple of his pieces in my inspiration post recently and then a few emails later… this interview came to surface. One of my big questions for Barton was WHY CHURCH? with all of that talent and grunge, why would he pick church as his format to express his art? Check out his thoughts on all of this below.
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