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Art & Design, Creative Business, Sycamore Street PressEvaSeptember 22, 2010aqua, blue, ellen gallagher, eva's quotes, hand drawn, hand lettering, inspiration, love, quote of the week, teal2 Comments
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Sycamore Street PressEvaAugust 18, 2010love

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10 things you might not know about me: 1. Every Friday night is family 🍕 movie night at our house. Always a double feature — one with the kids and one after the kids go to bed. 2. @kirk_sycamore and I are slowly watching all the Academy Award winning films for Best Picture. We’re working our way backwards and have slowed down quite a bit since getting to the 40’s. 😬 3. I went to a French school (in SoCal) for kindergarten and first grade. 🇫🇷 4. I have 1 sister and 2 brothers. (I am the oldest.) 5. In college, I was in a couple of bands: drawing number one and My Friend Fox (And a couple more super short lived bands: MK&A and St. Vincent de Paul). 🎵 6. I was/am a terrible guitar player. 🙉 7. My eyes are mostly green with some yellow. 8. My current favorite song (and it’s a kooky choice but I just love it!) is “Please Don’t Keep Me Waiting” by Olivia Newton-John (it’s in the Fall Mix I made! Link in profile.) ✨ 9. Despite my best efforts at controlling my anxiety and Hashimoto’s, I still have times when it all falls apart (like this morning, crying in a heap on the kitchen floor because I was just so tired and I missed saying goodbye to the kids before Kirk took them to school.) 🤦🏼‍♀️ 10. I like the Headspace meditation app. Does it work? Hard to say given what I mentioned in no. 9, but I think so. 😉 Baby steps. I’d love to hear something about you! #insidesycamore #parisbydesign #hashimotos Photo: @chauntevaughn
Do you consider yourself a creative person? If not, why not? I truly believe that we are all creative. Whether or not we craft, or draw, or sing, or sew, or any of the things traditionally thought of in relation to the word “creative”. I believe we all have creativity inside of us and it may look like a sculpture or it may look like a math equation or it may look like figuring out a way to get a toddler to eat their vegetables while thinking it was their own idea. 😉 Every day, we can find ways to use the creative spark that’s in all of us. And man, that sentence sounds corny when I read it back, but it’s true, ha! ✨✨✨ Photo from a @norrfilm project we worked on with some friends/colleagues a while back.
The night I landed in California, I drove up Highway 1 from the airport, past Malibu, and up to Port Hueneme to where my sister and her family live. It was a gorgeous drive and I listened to music and podcasts and felt that excitement you get at the beginning of a fun trip. Just as the light was fading I pulled over to snap this pic. That was Wednesday. Later that night, a man walked into a bar in Thousand Oaks and shot down 12 people. Just hours later, the Woolsey Fire started (and Highway 1—and 101 closed) and an entire town in Northern California burned down. It’s a crazy time in the Golden State. Take a look at my stories for ideas of how to help. And if you have other suggestions, please leave them in a comment below! 🙏 #woolseyfire #campfire
I’m loving the photo guide to Paris by @thefuturekept. So many inspiring photos of that city (like this one 👆🏻) and they name a few of my favorite spots, too, like the botanical gardens (Jardin des Plantes), le Comptoir General, and la Place des Vosges. Just google “Paris The Future Kept” to find it. 👍 The Future Kept is new to me, but from what I can tell, they are a couple of amazing photographers turned shop owners. (With so many beautiful ceramics in stock 😍.) Doesn’t it feel like so many of us creatives today wear multiple hats? Or evolve from one creative endeavor to another? I went to art school and thought I would be a professor and then had a stationery business for 10 years with a creative studio on the side which then became my full time thing. And I have a book about Paris coming out (#ParisbyDesign) next year. I know so many people who have worn many different hats creatively as well. (Raise your hand if you’re one of them!) It’s an interesting phenomenon of this generation. In fact, I just read an article in @fastcompany with @feliciathegoat (Tyler the Creator) about this same idea — he’s a rapper, a fashion designer, a comedy writer and producer, among other things... I guess I think that as long as you are doing what you feel called to do—whether that means sticking with the same thing or continually evolving—then that’s what’s important. What do you think? #creativityandcompassion #sycamoreco
Did you used to make mixtapes (or mix CDs)? I did and I miss it so I made you a fall mix! “Gimme Shelter” is on it (the lyrics have seemed so fitting lately in a lot of ways 🌎) along with 62 more songs that I love and feel like fall. 🍂 (Thanks @realbrookewhite for the inspiration to make a playlist. ✨) Lauryn Hill’s “Everything is Everything”, Courtney Barnett’s “Need a Little Time”, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins’ “You Are What You Love”, are just a few more... You can find the link in my profile and in my stories. 💛🎵#sycamorequotes #sycamoreinspiration #sycamoreplaylist p.s. I chose to make a graphic with this song for its lyrics when I was feeling the seriousness of the situation in the world earlier today. It’s still serious, of course, but feeling some more hope! There’s always hope! ✨

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