Inside the Spin-Mosaic Studio

Value is more than a monetary exchange. Value is sometimes a gift given where talent is compared to another that is higher in elevation than an artist feels they can aspire to. This is a simple story from long ago when I sat selling painted ladybug rocks with my mother at an Arts & Crafts Bazaar. There she sat with her table of art. There I sat with my card table of rocks. It was a learning lesson for sure. Then, along came a little boy my age who wanted to barter something in his hand that I deemed far more valuable than what I had to offer. What this did for my belief in my own talents...will never be forgotten. How can we gift gracious value into the lives of other Creatives'? It is a question we all must consider as we encourage others around us! [...]

Every creative artist experiences a creative slump or writer's block at times. This article is a confession in the middle of my own. Instead of stopping the train on the tracks, I continued to write about the slump itself. In the process, my fingertips figured things out. It is this process of thought that I freely offer in this article. "God Only Knows" why slumps start and why they end. [...]

The Art + Faith Illustrated Blog by Artist, Christi Ziebarth, jumpstarts 2021 with an invitation to share your stories of faith and provision. In this article, 2 stories are shared when within 3 seconds time, quick thinking rescued a child. God can send provision, God can also use YOU and ME to be the angel that is needed. Sometimes, more often than we realize, does God prepare, teach us, and train us to take action when action is needed? When we pray to hear God's voice, are we listening? When we hear, do we act? [...]