personal growth

The Healthy Artist & Writer’s Contract

by rosedeniz May 12, 2011 art
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A highly personal, totally individual, agreement for guilt-and-stress-free creativity.

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The miracle worker

by rosedeniz April 3, 2011 personal growth
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Hired help gives a tired momma and creative entrepreneur the keys to self-care.

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Is creativity healing?

by rosedeniz March 14, 2011 art
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It’s volatile out there. Eruptions, creative blocks, pain stories. Impasses and detours. Bloggers only as good as their last post. Artists only remembered by their latest body of work. Writers after a successful debut who get a bad case of second-book syndrome. Can creativity heal in the face of disaster?

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The Girl Effect

by rosedeniz November 16, 2010 personal growth
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Tweet At 12 years old, I was writing stories and poetry, illustrating my notebooks with doodles. I was thinking about my first crush and spending hours alone daydreaming. I never had to think about birthing a baby once I hit menstruation, raising a child through my teen years, nor not being able to attend school. […]

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Five years in Turkey and Five Insights

by rosedeniz July 23, 2010 creativity

Tweet Vanity, Rose Deniz 2010 This post was originally going to be tips for traveling light – a global citizen mama carries a lot of stuff across the world, but there are other ways to travel light – starting with disrobing definition and adopting changes in perspective. Here are five insights that stem directly from […]

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Process-oriented

by rosedeniz April 14, 2010 drawing

Tweet From 2002-2004, whenever I went into my studio to paint, I read books. I started nearly each and every day with an hour or more of reading and note-taking, checking for new books in our tiny but well-stocked art library. My MFA in Painting thesis had more poetry than painting in it with ‘titles […]

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An entangled inheritance

by rosedeniz February 2, 2010 nesting

Tweet I’ve been thinking a lot about the things that are supposed to come naturally, like knowing when to comfort and nurture. Thinking about grief. Thinking about the things that seem contrary to reason, like that my genetic offspring have sprouted feet that jump onto glass tables, climb bookshelves, and drop breakable momentos on the floor. […]

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Intentions 2010

by rosedeniz December 31, 2009 creativity

Tweet In tandem with my post at Colette Patterns, wishing you and yours a very happy New Year!

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Preoccupations

by rosedeniz April 27, 2009 design

Tweet For the last several days, I’ve been thinking about a blog renaming. I’ve been blogging as Rose Deniz since 2005* (I can’t believe it!), when I began doing handbag design. Now that I’m not exclusively doing handbags anymore, it makes less sense to me to have my blog be branded with my name. My […]

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