{"id":43719,"date":"2018-10-19T07:02:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=43719"},"modified":"2018-10-05T10:16:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T17:16:49","slug":"continuing-to-sparkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/continuing-to-sparkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing to Sparkle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Spark #30, we finished working our way through Carrie Bloomston\u2019s book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1607059606\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1607059606&amp;linkId=c1208208167f2ca0da0dc49c0e646520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Little Spark<\/a>. Buy it. Support the artist. Our journey here is done, but the posts will remain and you can work through the book and my comments at your own pace. There is much more to each spark than what I wrote. The original chapters will help you.<\/p>\n<p>Included on the very last page of the book was a list of books and movies that Carrie suggests we read. I am listing some of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/161180308X\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=161180308X&amp;linkId=af644a282a8609f9f28c05bec546a2e9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Writing Down the Bones<\/a> by Natalie Goldberg<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003ZYETOQ\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B003ZYETOQ&amp;linkId=5c5ff03a2e85bedaebc6a2f26781cd55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pink Refrigerator<\/a> by Tim Egan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1570628394\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1570628394&amp;linkId=e3cfa8c650e7fd081bf4e18253d8e2de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Start Where You Are<\/a> by Pema Chodron<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060927488\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0060927488&amp;linkId=862d7370ebdeec805e41468a9bbc66b7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Return to Love<\/a> by Marianne Williamson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01I06FB6S\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B01I06FB6S&amp;linkId=93946668561b5efbfed29b1c16c589d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amadeus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004SIP7S0\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B004SIP7S0&amp;linkId=e62a481f58cf83d5f03f99962eab5880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frida<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read any of the books listed above. I have seen a couple of the books she lists, but would watch them again. Go buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carriebloomston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carrie Bloomston<\/a>\u2019s book, so you get the full benefit of her fabulousness!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Spark #30, we finished working our way through Carrie Bloomston\u2019s book, The Little Spark. Buy it. Support the artist. Our journey here is done, but the posts will remain and you can work through the book and my comments at your own pace. There is much more to each spark than what I wrote. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/continuing-to-sparkle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Continuing to Sparkle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[311,72,319],"class_list":["post-43719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-creativity","tag-group-project","tag-inspiration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}