Small is Beautiful Saturdays
Last weekend in the tiny world of the Pacific Northwest, two like-minded spiritual mamma’s met. Shari MacDonald Strong and I first fell in love during Paul’s PAF days where we both got all up in arms over unjust crap that was going on in our region. Since then we’ve been nurturing a soul sister romance over the internet, stalking each other’s blogs, and longing to meet each other IRL. After several aborted attempts to hook up — one which included a raging round of the stomach flu on a northwest island — we finally gathered our clans together and took all five kids out to eat at Portland’s family-friendly Old Wives’ Tale restaurant. Over two spilled glasses of water (the twins) and fifteen trips to the salad bar (our girls), Shari and her husband Craig told us about all their small but beautiful projects.
Craig has done one of those miraculous things and launched a successful small business, LensBaby, which makes specialized camera lenses for print photographers. Shari is nurturing spiritual-seeking parents over at Literary Mamawith her regular column Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance. She also has a great little self-titled blog where she writes wonderfully about editing, parenting, and recovering from evangelical Christianity (all favorite topics of my very own.) Stop by one of their sites this week and tell them thanks for believing that small is beautiful!
And now for a Small is Beautiful Update: Jen and I are still working on the art for the SIB button. We’re also continuing to collect web addresses for small sites that would like to be featured in a Small is Beautiful Saturday write up. You can put your name in the hat by emailing your website address to moi at magpie dash girl dot com. In upcoming weeks we’ll also be featuring pdf downloads of small but beautiful gifties, micro give aways, and fun collaborative projects to inspire and delight. Keep watching this site on Saturdays!
Much love,
Rachelle
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August 20th, 2007 at 5:34 am
Rachelle, I love that you posted this because I have been struggling for a week to think small instead of big, except I didn’t know it until I read this!
I have creative projects in my head that I want out right away, already finished…without having to do all the small crappy stuff to get it to the point that my inner-perfectionist says it’s okay to do so. I struggle with the preparation…the practising…the research…because I now see that I’m getting so ahead of myself! I don’t have to make these projects to sell on Etsy (just yet)….I don’t have to add the frills…I can go simple….I can go small, and receive the same satisfaction…and offer the same gift of love and beauty. Goddess I love epiphanys…thank you!!
Lil
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:22 pm
ahhh….thank you for this, jewels everytime I didn’t know where there!
May 6th, 2008 at 8:49 am
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