Living Artfully: Create the Life You Imagine

10 best books like Living Artfully: Create the Life You Imagine (Sandra Magsamen): Messy Thrilling Life: The Art of Figuring Out How to Live, The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, Creative Time and Space: Making Room for Making Art, Live What You Love: Notes from an Unusual Life, Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life, Art Journals and Creative Healing: Restoring the Spirit Through Self-Expression, Journal Revolution: Rise Up & Create! Art Journals, Personal Manifestos and Other Artistic Insurrections, Visual Chronicles: The No-Fear Guide to Creating Art Journals, Creative Manifestos & Altered Books, Creating a Life Worth Living, Kaleidoscope: Ideas & Projects to Spark Your Creativity

Messy Thrilling Life: The Art of Figuring Out How to Live

Author	Sabrina Ward Harrison
ISBN	0812967666

Like her previous, the book looks a lot like an art journal with mixed media collages, photography, and writing. It focuses on her choices, her body image, her desire to love and live fully. There's a lot of beauty and quite a bit of melodrama. Yet...

A couple of spreads / passages made the book...

The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women

Author	Gail McMeekin
ISBN	1573241415

Sparked by her own long search for inspiration in her life and work, Gail McMeekin has worked closely with some the contemporary world's most creative women in her guide to maximizing creative energy. Over 50 of these dynamic women share their secrets to success. Through a series of interviews and conversations,...

Creative Time and Space: Making Room for Making Art

Author	Ricë Freeman-Zachery
ISBN	1600613225

How do you make room for making art?

Do you long to uncover secrets to sneaking more creative time into your day, or to making your studio the perfect place to unleash your artistic potential? Have you often wondered how successful creative types seem to manage both with ease?

In her...

Live What You Love: Notes from an Unusual Life

Author	Robert Blanchard
ISBN	1402728425

Bob and Melinda Blanchard's first book, "A Trip to the Beach," sold more than 85,000 copies and became inspiration for countless people who were ready to start living their dreams. Comprising stories, reflections, notes, insights, and a bit of advice, "Live What You Love" is the Blanchard's warm,...

Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life

Author	Frederic Brussat
ISBN	0684835347

A book that belongs in every seeker's home, Spiritual Literacy answers the universal question, "How can I live a spiritual life every day?" Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat reveal a way to read the texts of our lives and of the world around us for sacred meaning.
Using more than 650 brief examples from...

Art Journals and Creative Healing: Restoring the Spirit Through Self-Expression

Author	Sharon Soneff
ISBN	1592533647

A beautiful, artistic offering that offers projects on challenging, but universal subjects.In follow up to Faith Books & Spiritual Journaling, author Sharon Soneff will continue to show that there is a richer, deeper reward to artistic, creative journals beyond the beauty they supply. In this...

Journal Revolution: Rise Up & Create! Art Journals, Personal Manifestos and Other Artistic Insurrections

Author	Linda Woods
ISBN	1581809956

Rise up and CREATE! No borders, no boundaries: truth, journaled wherever you find it. Grab your mess kit - we're starting a Journal Revolution.

Overthrow your inner critic's tyranny of fear and rules, and discover fresh techniques and inspiration to rant, whisper, beg, stomp or sing your...

Visual Chronicles: The No-Fear Guide to Creating Art Journals, Creative Manifestos & Altered Books

Author	Karen Dinino
ISBN	1581807708

I only say that because I am the definition of that headline -- but VISUAL CHRONICLES made me want to sit down with glue, scissors, and some old magazines...and make something fun. I'm not an artist, but Linda and Karen made me feel like one. This book is inspiring, funny, creative, and wonderful -- and...

Creating a Life Worth Living

Author	Carol Lloyd
ISBN	0060952431

Dreaming is easy. Making it happen is hard. With a fresh perspective, Carol Lloyd motivates the person searching for two things: the creative life and a life of sanity, happiness and financial solvency. Creating a Life Worth Living is for the hundreds of thousands of people who bought Julia Cameron's...

Kaleidoscope: Ideas & Projects to Spark Your Creativity

Author	Suzanne Simanaitis
ISBN	1581808798

Indulge your creative cravings Are you passionately curious? Let "Kaleidoscope" open new doors of creativity as you explore dozens of stories, exercises and instructive projects, all designed to feed, encourage and sometimes flex your creative muscle.Between the beautiful pages of "Kaleidoscope,"...

Where Women Create: Inspiring Work Spaces of Extraordinary Women

Author	Jo Packham
ISBN	1402712294

More than twenty superstars from the world of crafting--including Anna Corba, April Cornell, Sandi Genovese, and Andrea Grossman--offer their expert advice on how to design a work space where creativity can blossom. Like the bestselling Business of Bliss, it's practical, inspirational, and beautiful...

Taking Flight: Inspiration and Techniques to Give Your Creative Spirit Wings

Author

Kelly Rae Roberts

Stretch Your Wings, Learn to Soar, Take Flight

In "Taking Flight," you'll find overflowing inspiration—complete with a kindred spirit in author and mixed-media artist Kelly Rae Roberts. Join her on a fearless journey into the heart of creativity as you test your wings and learn to find...

52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity (Perigee Book)

Author	Jeffrey Yamaguchi
ISBN	0399532064

Jeffrey Yamaguchi extends an invitation to indulge one's inner artist by committing yourself to one creative project a week for 52 weeks. 52 Projects chronicles the author's artistic journey over the course of one year and how it changed his life-and also offers 52 jumping-off points for the reader's...

Bazaar Style: Decorating with Market and Vintage Finds

Author	Selina Lake
ISBN	1845976266

If you love rummaging through markets for unusual fabrics, and can’t pass an antique or second-hand shop without popping in, Bazaar Style is for you. Stylist Selina Lake and experienced interiors writer Joanna Simmons show you real homes furnished with intriguing pieces from different eras...

Creative Wildfire: An Introduction to Art Journaling - Basics and Beyond

Author	L.K. Ludwig
ISBN	1592536018

Art journaling is a vital activity for artists who need a place to experiment, draw, paint, document ideas, and continue an interior dialog. This lush, visual book is a must-have volume for both beginning and experienced art journalers. Each chapter presents crucial, basic information for how to...

Artist Trading Card Workshop: Create. Collect. Swap.

Author	Bernie Berlin
ISBN	1581808488

Create and swap mini works of art!

The simple act of sharing 21/2 x 31/2 pieces of art, known as Artist Trading Cards, knows no boundaries and brings like-souls together like no other form of communication can. Unique statements, passionate emotions and favorite interests can all be expressed...

Blogging for Bliss: Crafting Your Own Online Journal: A Guide for Crafters, Artists Creatives of all Kinds

Author	Tara Frey
ISBN	1600595111

Today’s crafting community is online, connected, and blissfully blogging about their work and ideas. Blogging is hot in this highly creative world—and here is the only how-to book aimed directly at them. Everyone from knitters and beaders to scrapbookers and altered artists will find the practical...

Prosperity Pie: How to Relax About Money and Everything Else

Author	S.A.R.K.
ISBN	0743229207

I loved this book! This is one of my favourite that I've read by SARK. I will definitely reread it. Interestingly enough, she spends only about a quarter of the book on money and traditional definitions of "prosperity." Instead, the book begins:

"I believe we need to discover WHO we truly are,...

The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom

Author	Christine Valters Paintner
ISBN	1933495294

Summarized in the phrase "pray and work," "The Rule of St. Benedict" provides the inspiration for Christine Valters Paintner's newest exploration of the mutually nourishing relationship between contemplative practices and creative expression. Artists of all stripes and stations in life—poets...

How to Avoid Making Art (or Anything Else You Enjoy)

Author	Julia Cameron
ISBN	1585424382

This hilarious look at creative blockage and blunder is a laugh-out-loud tribute to artist procrastination.

In How to Avoid Making Art, the bestselling author of The Artist's Way delivers a (tongue-in-cheek!) guide to doing anything and everything you possibly can to avoid making art....

Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself

Author	Lucia Capacchione
ISBN	1564145387

A recognized classic in the field of art therapy and creativity, this book is a perfect guide to discovering and releasing your inner potential through writing and drawing. It contains over 50 writing and drawing exercises to help you find and love one's self, get in touch with ones' feelings, and dreams....