Happy Monday!
Today I’m finally able to share with you something new & exciting to the Gussy Sews blog/community. One of my favorite parts about this blog is the community we have built together. It truly warms my heart to see you respond to each others comments and to share Gussy Sews blog/shop links on twitter or facebook. It’s been clear to me for awhile now that the Gussy Sews community is full of inspiration :] I love it and I want to celebrate it!!!
So — having said that, it’s time to introduce to you the Inspiration Workshop!. Starting Thursday, June 2nd ~ and happening each week thereafter, we’ll be linking up & sharing what inspires us. All the details are outlined on this page, so I hope you’ll click over to read all the details.
Here’s a super simple rundown:
On Fridays, an email newsletter will be sent out containing the week’s inspiration prompt. Then on Thursdays, six days later, you’ll blog about the prompt {how you interpreted it, what it made you think of, etc.} and you’ll come back HERE to link up your post.
This linky party is going to be a great way to find/flourish inspiration and to meet other bloggers. I’m very much looking forward to how we can encourage one another and continue building this community.
You can join the newsletter by clicking here, or you can sign up in the right sidebar of this blog.
There’s even a nifty button for you to grab:
One thing I do want to add — possibly the most important part of this workshop, is this:
The Inspiration Workshop! was created so you feel inspired — not so you feel defeated that you aren’t creative or talented enough because you aren’t crafty or a skilled photographer or a baker, or the like. I want to emphasis the fact that it’s OK to share photos that inspire you, but not necessarily ones you take yourself. {Please make sure you give credit.} The purpose of this linky party is to encourage us to find inspiration and beauty around us {in real life, online, etc.}. There are no walls or limitations here. Everyone is invited and we are all amazingly talented. So please, join us! ♥
So, I hope that you’ll sign up and that I’ll see your AMAZING post on Thursday, June 2nd.
The first email newsletter will be sent this Friday ~ May 27th.
Spread the word!
xoxo
Woot!
So exciting!!
double WOOT! ;)
How fun! I might have signed up 4 or 5 times. I keep hitting submit, but it doesn’t look like anything is happening. I guess I’ll find out Friday if it worked. :)
Hey Amanda, I did the same thing because nothing was happening. But then I clicked on the “Inspiration Workshop” link above and signed up and that worked. It took me to a “confirm your subscription” page so I know it worked that time. Good luck!
Thanks! I went over and signed up over there and it said I had made too many requests with that address, so I think that means it worked!
thank you Rebecca for your help — we’ll look into this!!!
thanks for signing up! xo
Amanda, I did the VERY same thing. I kept clicking it over and over. I never got the message that said I made too many requests though… guess I didn’t click it enough. ;o)
This is so cool! I can’t wait to see the first prompt and be inspired! I love it!!
yay! thanks for being so excited!!!! :]
So we don’t have to sew something for it, but make something (anything?!?) ?! – sounds GREAT! x
NO! you just have to have warm fuzzies about something that is exciting or pretty or interesting to you!!! :]
So much fun! I signed up!
I am really looking forward to this, what a great idea!
Thanks Gussy!
What a great idea! I’m looking forward to participating :)
I’m so pumped! this is so fun!
Great idea! I’m so excited about this!! I just recently decided to start a blog. Can’t wait to participate!!
Excited!!!! I’m inspired by so many things right now that it’s sometimes overwhelming. This will be a great way to focus. lately I’ve been inspired by sewing projects (wink, wink).
sounds like fun…i’m so excited!
what a GREAT idea! i, too, am a newbie in blogland, and i’m soooo excited to be a part of this! :)
Wooo, great idea!!!! I’m signing up!
Very exciting & scared to see what my “To Do” project list will look like each weekend!!
aww. it won’t be too intense ;)
yay!! excited!
thanks for being you. it sounds wonderful.
xo
Can we do this if we don’t even know how to sew? I know…stupidest. question. ever. But I’d love to come along, be inspired and do something with paper and/or paint if it works that way!! :)
absolutely!
the only requirement is you link to a photo in your post (one you took or one you found online), and that somehow relates to the inspiration prompt. there are no limitations to this workshop — no requirements on what your talents are! be free to be creative ♥!
woohoo!!! I can’t wait to link up and check out what inspires others. I love love the gussy community!! :)
I’m LOVING this! Can’t wait to see the weekly projects. :)
so excited about this.. needing something happy and exciting today! {yay} thanks gussy :)
LOVE this idea! I am all about new inspiration and become even more inspired when I see other people’s ideas & interpretations. What a brilliant & fun idea!
Maggie, this is so insanely exciting!
This is such a great idea! :)
This is a great idea! I’m very excited to take part in it! Your blog has inspired me more than any other I’ve come across, and several times!
hi lindsay! thanks for your sweet comment! xxooo