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I’ll be using Google’s GrandCentral program for this. 

How it works.  Enter your number in the button after you click on it, by default, it keeps your number private (even from me).  The service will then call you, and you will hear my voice saying something to the effect of "Thanks for coming to the blog, leave your message and I’ll post it."

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Below are Eight lists posts from some of our bloggers around the Arts and Design channel here at b5media of things they found interesting or have gleaned from experience.

Enjoy.

1. 10 Quilting Sites & Blogs That Excite Me: Check out some of the quilting web sites and blogs Mary Emma finds interesting and inspiring.
2. It’s a list of 25 DIY Jewelry Sites by Tammy over at Jewelry and Beading.
3. Chloe lists 20 reasons why having your own workspace is great.
4. Also, Chloe has a few (more like 30) needs in her new studio that you might identify with in creating your own studio workspace.
5. For my own entry here on Artist Hideout, I listed 25 art forms and artists who already use them.
6. Noreen over at hankering for yarn is passionate about small loom weaving and has made a short list of a few reasons why.
7. Christine over at Mad Cropper gives you her Top 10 favorite posts in her blog. Wanna know more? Read on!
8. Noreen,  also at hankeringforyarn, has been enchanted by a very special doll that has taken on a life of her own: Tottie Tomato.  Tottie Tomato is on a journey, and Noreen has been posting about it….. read all about it in the Chronicles of Tottie Tomato (and yes, Tottie  REALLY is a Tomato…..)

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I guess it’s been around awhile, but I only just found it via Dan over at www.EmptyEasel.com (by the way Dan, I love the new design…  I didn’t catch it when you put it up because I read your feed, but nice job).

The art blog www.linesandcolors.com had recently caught my eye as a great resource for learning more about particular artists and art forms as well as a few other tidbits of great information.

Here’s a few particular links I found interesting at Lines and Colors today:

How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web

How to Display Your Art on the Web

Preparing images for the web

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

Also a nice little post on one of my favorite artists:

Ron Mueck

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But I failed to mention color schemes in the process. 

I have found the following to be a pretty good standard for colors.  If the colors appear together in nature, then they will work visually for your project.  Granted, this is a pretty loose judgement, but it seems to work for me.

The color scheme above is entitled Fire Flower, based off of the colors of the following image I took while on vacation earlier this year.

I haven’t worked out how to pull these types of color values out using free software yet such as gimp, but I have found a website that will do it for you. 

By the way, this is the flower I used for that really, really annoying post.

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A big Thank you to Tammy, over at Jewelry and Beading who is hosting this month. Click on the little Sun Christmas ornament above to check out the posts submitted by the rest of the channel.

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