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Friday’s Featured Resources in a Creative Bookstore

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Today’s post is chock full of resources of the creative kind. We’ve got lots of incredibly gifted ‘sisters’ out there doing amazing things. Like getting books published. And I mean lots of them! So, in honor of these awesome accomplishments I thought I’d do a little round up of some of the blogosphere’s finest.

A Year of Mornings

Many of us followed Stephanie and Mav’s blog 3191 from the early days and I know on more than one occasion I thought, this would make a beautiful book. Guess I wasn’t the only one thinking it. The photographic connection these two friends share in not only uncanny, it’s mesmerizing as is the new book. I can only guess what book is next.

Taking Flight

Only the incredible Kelly Rae Roberts could bring such beauty together in one book. And the best part is that she not only shares her work and her process with us, she makes us believe we can do the same. The pages are filled with enchanting art, love, wisdom and her creative spirit as she beckons us to fly with her.

The Creative Family Life

Every time I visit Soule Mama’s blog I swoon. She lives her daily family life like a celebration; an ode to the beauty of everyday moments. To have the sage wisdom of Amanda Blake Soule in a treasury such as her book is a gift.

Ordinary Sparkling Moments

The infamous Swirly Girl (Christine Mason Miller) breathed this book to life with the art, knowledge and insight that only a true artist of life could. Her work graces the pages and her words lift us up and challenge us to recognize all that perfectly wonderful in our ordinary lives.

Sharing you Story

It’s no big news to all of you that Ali Edwards works magic into everything she touches. With her latest book she features mini scrapbooks as delightful means to help us tell the stories that make up our everyday lives using words and photographs (and if she has anything to do with it, a little magic too).

How to be an Explorer of the World

This offering from the prolific Keri Smith is quite literally hot off the presses. I can’t wait to get my hands on it. If her previous titles Wreck this Journal and the Guerilla Art Kit are any indication of what’s in store, it’s going to be creative genius I’m sure.

Congrats to these lovely ladies on their accomplishments and lucky us to get to reap the benefits of their soul work.

Last but not least, it is with great pleasure we open the doors to the Shutter Sisters bookstore. We’ve begun with these titles and more and look forward to adding to our virtual bookshelves. If you have a book you would like to recommend, something that has made your creative spirit sing, please feel free to leave it in the comments or email us. We love to be inspired!

Leave a comment today to be entered in our random giveaway of a $20 Amazon Gift card. You have until Saturday at midnight to enter. The only tough part will be choosing which book to buy with your winnings!

Comments

  3. These women are an inspiration! I have recently found the creative spark within my soul and these women have helped nourish this spark without knowing, just by doing.

  4. Way to go ladies!!! It’s so awesome to see all the creativity and hard work put into these great little packages for all of us to enjoy and be inpired through in our own creative journeys.

    It was nice to see some of my favorite web friends and women featured here this morning.

    Congratulations to all of us for loving ourselves, feeding our passions, and sharing them with one another.

    Happy Friday! =)
    Love

  11. Oh, how wonderful! Looks like lots of great eye candy with some creativity pointers along the way! Now the problem of trying to decide which one to purchase first!

  13. I sat down 90 minutes ago for a cup of coffee and a browse. Now my coffee is cold, I’m 90 minutes behind in my day, and still not showered. But what an amazing treasury of creative women you’ve shown us! Thank you, thank you and Happy Friday!

  14. I am but a lurker here, but an everyday one, and you have listed some of my favorite ladies. It’s so nice when their accomplishments are recognized by publishers!

  17. I am so inspired. Just found out about all of these blogs – living under a stone until recently apparently – I am so grateful to see that other women create and revere through their lives with support from others who do the same!!

  21. I’m rather new to this whole blogging thing. I’m excited to sit down and look through some of the blogs you mentioned and get some ideas and inspiration for my own photography.

  32. Oh, how wonderful! Looks like lots of great eye candy with some creativity pointers along the way! Now the problem of trying to decide which one to purchase first!

  36. I am truly blown away by the creativity and beauty I have seen here today. I am inspired to continue on my journey of photography and scrapbooking my life!

  37. I know there is a bible verse that says something like, "spur one another on towards love and good deeds", That’s whats happen here!

  38. wow, makes me feel like i really should get off my but and create something great. In other news – I love the fact that all the crayons are upside down in today’s picture. Someone obviously had a specific vision for the crayon box 🙂

  39. For Sammie above, here’s one – Proverbs 27:17 "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." Thank you to all the shutter sisters who are continually sharpening me to be a more thoughtful and deliberate photographer 🙂

  40. The only one of these books that I read is "The creative family", and I loved it all the way! I got many ideas from it, and it also served as a shooter of my own ideas and the kick in the butt to get started with projects.

  42. I’m absolutely thrilled for these fellow sisters. I’ve know about 3 but it’s so inspiring to learn about each of these creative souls. I will check each one out and will try to support some of them as well.

    Were it not for Shutter Sisters I would live in an empty or near-empty world oblivious to such talent and womanly creativity. Thank you all.

    Happy Thanksgiving to all you fellow Canadian Shutter Sisters,
    Diane

  43. I’d love to be entered in the drawing. And guess what! My mom has a Kodak Duaflex II. It was the family’s camera for the longest time. Used to be we only took black and white. Then I got my Kodak Brownie. After a while I started taking pictures in color…then my black and white Polaroid…then my color Polaroid….

    God I am sounding old here.

  49. Thanks for sharing these creative artists with us! For some of these, it’s a new introduction!

  51. I love to find little treasures like these websites and books. I had seen A Year of Mornings, the blog, but did not know a book was coming out. Like Paige, I too spent more time than I should have looking through this post. 🙂

    Thank you for sharing!