My parents have three kids and I'm the least artistic. That's not saying much, because both my brothers aim to be professional artists. Between the two of them they do poetry, performances, short story writing, music and yes, visual art as well.
Me? I write nonfiction and I design websites. But the family bug hasn't skipped me completely and on this lens I share everything along those lines that I've published online. Whether it's collections of beautiful calendars or posters, or my own own holiday pictures; whether it's jewelry collections or a mandala art project.
And yes, I made the picture above.
Nature photography calendars
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Nature Photography Calendars, Date books, Planners and Poster Calendars
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I think pictures of nature are very relaxing to the nerves. Especially if they are beautiful. I selected nature calendars from various vendors to make it easier for you to find just the calendar or engagement planner you want. Some of these calendar...
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Cute Baby Animals Calendars and Planners 2010
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These calendars and planners have the cutest baby animal pictures, sometimes with their parents. Inspiring, beautiful and simply a great addition to your home. You'll find farm animals, pets and wildlife photography. Some of these are cuter than cut...
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Beautiful Hummingbird Calendars and Planners 2010
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I don't know what it is, but some of the most beautiful nature calendars I've seen this year are devoted to Hummingbirds. Whether only the best photographers are able to catch these flighty feathery friends, or that they live in the most beautiful ar...
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Beautiful Songbird Photography calendars and planners 2010
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Songbirds aren't just beautiful to listen to, they're also a class of birds that often have very beautiful feathers. So they're a good subject for nature photography as well. On this lens you will find calendars and planners devoted to songbirds. In...
More natural inspiration
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Susan Bourdet art calendars and planners 2010
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Her artwork is consistently popular on calendars and in prints. I've gathered her calendars, date books and planners on one lens so you can easily find them. Back to Nature - Bluebird, by Susan Bourdet
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2009, 2010 Nature Pictures, Photographs and Posters
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Enjoy the pictures of animals in their natural habitat and the scenery of nature. I feel this kind of photography gives a sense of peace to a home. Most of the pictures represented here are available as posters from Allposters.com. The squidoo proc...
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2010 Songbird watercolor calendars and planners
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I love nature photography, but art based on nature is equally enchanting. I do think that's a good word for this lens, because many of the calendars on here turn nature into something romantic, not quite of this world. Colors turn pastel because of t...
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Korte Vlietpad - my favorite walk in Leiden
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Giant squids were asked, as our final assignment of our summer school 2009, to make a lens about our favorite haunt this summer. Well, I've been living in my 'new' apartment for a year now, but it's only in the last few months that I've discovered t...
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Cute calendars with pictures of babies
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Baby pictures are heart warming. Who can avoid smiling when seeing cute smiling or sleeping infants and toddlers? These calendars feature the photographs of Anne Geddes or Rachel Hale. I've also found you a cartoon around a family with babies and...
Dalai Lama: Instructions for life poster
Beautiful jewelry
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First Holy Communion jewelry
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Help your child or godchild remember their first communion with religious jewelry. Boys will often get a cross, crucifix or a religious medal such as a four way medal. Girls can be given any of these, but alternatives include a sacramental charm brac...
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Islamic Muslim Jewelry
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I've organized this religious jewelry by price: the most beautiful and expensive at the top (over $100), the more affordable and cheap rings and pendants towards the bottom (starting at $10). My personal favorites are the hamsas - the hand of Fatima...
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Astrology Horoscope Jewelry
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Based on your astrological sign is personal by definition, this jewelry is said by some people to bring good luck. I've found jewelry for each sign in the zodiac.
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Tibetan Buddhist Jewelry
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The colors and shapes of Tibetan Buddhism are unique. This has a lot to do with the letters: spiky forms derived from devanagari (the letters most used to write Sanskrit and Hindi) translate into fiery forms for Om and Om Mani Padme Hum for instance....
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Spiritual and religious jewelry
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I collected some very inspiring spiritual charms, bracelets, necklaces and pendants for you. They are Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Jewish and Muslim - I even found pagan jewelry. Hope you enjoy, and are inspired to add to your own jewelry box.
Fractals
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Fractal Graphics Art Posters
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Fractals make beautiful art - I've found posters and art prints in which the many layered beauty of fractals comes out wonderfully well. The different colors are usually determined mathematically based on properties like density. The image on th...
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What are fractals? Recursive geometry in nature
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On the left you see a version of the most famous fractal of all time: the Mandelbrot fractal. However closely you zoom in, you'll always see roughly the same pattern. That's what defines a fractal. They are defined by a relatively simple math...
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Best Beautiful Fractal Books
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Fractals are a fascinating field of Mathematics in which patterns get repeated in ever smaller form. What's more, they turn out to describe very different 'chaotic' phenomena. This sort of math does not predict very well, but it does expl...
Spiritual posters and artwork
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Goddess Art Posters
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As women become more of a force in our worldwide culture, goddesses also get more and more attention. You will find some beautiful, some ancient and some modern art depicting goddesses from all over the world. You will learn something of the wide v...
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Mandala Meditation Posters 2009
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An art form developed in India and Tibet, mandalas have come to be seen as symbols of inner peace and balance. These mandala posters are sometimes based on traditional Tibetan thankas, but are in other cases modern spiritual art. See also these Budd...
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Spiritual art project - make a mandala
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Mandala's are an inspiring spiritual art form. You can get your kids involved with spiritual art in all kinds of ways - from simply coloring preprinted mandala's, to learning how to construct one themselves with a compass. The picture on the left is...
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Religious and Spiritual Posters 2009, 2010
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For your dorm room or college hang out. Inspiring posters that reflect your spiritual inspiration and religious background. Whether you want cute, or Christian, or Muslim or Hindu, whether you're jewish or pagan - I've found something you ju...
Defining Art
On this lens I'm defining art as widely as I can: whether it's the visual arts, music or creative writing. Since I don't do creative writing and haven't made lenses about the subject either, what's left is music and visual art. I'm a visual person, so most of my lenses about art are about visual art. Still, I'm also sharing my one musical lens here.
Spiritual puzzles
I made this lens when I found out that vintage posters were being turned into puzzles in the UK. Unfortunately, as I made this lens, I found that these were usually not available in the USA. Still, I think it's a fun idea to have the classic images of the aura and chakras available in puzzle format.-
Clairvoyance Jigsaw Puzzles and Posters
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These are such fun: jigsaw puzzles out of pictures of auras and historical depictions of chakras. Each is also available as a poster or art print. Aside from the beautiful posters and puzzles I found, I've also included a bit of a history lesso...
Art online, on stumbleupon to be exact: photoblogs
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Beautiful stumbleupon photoblogs
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This page will change daily as the photo-blogs themselves change. Stumbleupon can be used to find great websites and great pictures. Stumbleupon is also a layman's blogging tool: you can just put anything on your blog that you enjoyed in other peopl...
Thank you allposters for making many of these lenses possible
Want to know how to incorporate copyrighted artwork legally on your lenses? This lens tells you how.-
AllPosters.Com the cutest affiliate program
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I do love this affiliate program. AllPosters.com gives you an easy (well doable) way to put great pictures on your lenses that fit your theme. And if people click on them and buy the posters (or other products), you stand to gain affiliate income. H...
Math and Art: another art project
My first profession was that of math teacher. I guess sometimes it shows.-
Origami Phizz Units - math crafts at home
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This is a lens devoted to showing and explaining what a PHiZZ unit is and how much fun can be had from them. PHiZZ unit stands for 'Pentagon, Hexagon, Zig Zag' unit. (I don't know where the i comes from, but it sure makes it sound more fun.) The Zig...
Music from India
I am, by far, the least musical person in the family. Still, I had fun making this lens about Bollywood music.-
Indian Music Videos - bollywood fun
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The music of India includes multiple varieties of folk, popular, pop, and classical music. On this lens you will find modern video's with India's classical music tradition, including Carnatic and Hindustani music, has a history spanning mille...
Surrealism Fine Art
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Surrealistic Art Calendars 2010
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Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920's, and is best known for the paintings and sculptures of the group members, though they had a deep philosophy as well. Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected ju...
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Salvador Dali - religiously themed surrealistic art
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A madman? A genius? A surrealist painter, but also a realist painter. An atheist, but later converted to Roman Catholicism. Despite the many developments in his art, a few threads are constant: Using modern and classic painting techniques Shocking h...
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Salvador Dali Art Calendars and Planners 2010
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Calendars devoted to Dali who was born as Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech, 1st Marquis of Pubol on May 11th 1904. He lived to be 84, dying January 23rd 1989. He was a flamboyant surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. A...
Art featuring Tibet and the Tibetan People
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Tibet Wall Calendars and Desk Calendars 2010
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When thinking of Tibet, most people automatically think about China, the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism. However, like other countries, Tibet is more than just those political and religious factors. There are ordinary people there, not all of whom...
Fairies Fantasy art
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Fairies Posters Fantasy Art
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Fairies, pixies, gnomes and elves... They stand for magic, imagination, creativity and mystery. Fairies particularly are popular because they are also thought (usually) to be beautiful. As such they become roll models for girls: pretty, free, cute an...
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Fairies Fantasy Art Calendars 2010
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Fairies, Pixies, Elves and Nature Spirits, Gnomes, Jinns and Leprechauns... Stories for kids and yet magical for adults too. On this page I've gathered calendars featuring fairies, angels elves and pixies: from Disney versions to fantasy art for adul...
Making a beautiful Christmas
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Red and Gold Tree Toppers
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Tree toppers for your red and gold Christmas color scheme. Matte Gold Finial Vintage Glass Christmas Tree Topper 13
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Red and Gold Christmas Balls
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I love a Gold and Red Christmas theme, so I've gathered red and gold Christmas balls together on this page. In most cases they're made to fit the gold and red Christmas theme, though in some cases other colors have slipped through. Gold Bauble Irish...
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Beautiful Christmas Tree Skirts for sale
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Decorating your house for Christmas is fun, but the result is not quite complete without camouflaging the bottom of the tree somehow. While you can use a common cloth, the most beautiful way to decorate your tree bottom to top is using a tree skirt....
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Christmas Preparations 2009
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Preparing for Christmas is fun and nerve wracking. On this page I've collected links to pages where you can find great gift ideas as well as pages to help you prepare for Christmas decorating. Buy this Christmas poster at AllPosters.com
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How to decorate a small apartment for Christmas
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I'll be celebrating Christmas with 6 other family members in my small apartment this year. On this page I share my journey to get it into Christmas shape. Since I'm also on a budget, I'll be sharing tips that don't have to cost much. You can do a lot...
Art Calendars
- Marjolein Bastin weekly planner 2010 | Planners, Date books, Organizers
- Lang Graphics offers four calendar books featuring the artwork of Marjolein Bastin. Their covers are very much alike, but inside they're different.
- Susan Seddon Boulet Fantasy Art Calendars and Planners | Calendars
- Susan Seddon Boulet (1941-1997) was a passionate student of the world religions and mythology. Her fantasy art uses the symbols she found all over the
- Pop Art Planners 2010 | Planners, Date books, Organizers
- Most of the calendars I feature on my blog are meant, implicitly or explicitly, for women. These aren't. Whether it's Andy Warhol's date book devoted to cars,
- Surrealist Art Posters Calendars 2010 | Calendars
- Joan Miro and Salvador Dali are two of the artists from the surrealist movement whose work has survived till today. Salvador Dali, with his flamboyant
- Surrealist Art Planners 2010 | Planners, Date books, Organizers
- Surrealism is an art form that started in the 1920's. Some of it's artists are still popular: Salvador Dali and Joan Miro are still almost household names. Art
- M.C. Escher art calendars and planner 2010 | Calendars
- Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M.C. Escher, was a Dutch-Frisian graphic artist. He is known for his often
- Joan Miró i Ferrà Art Calendars and Planner 2010 | Calendars
- Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983; Catalan pronunciation: ) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in
- Susan Bourdet wall calendars 2010 | Calendars
- Susan Bourdet is famous for her calendars. Her wall calendars especially are favorites year after year. All her calendars are published by Lang Graphics to open
- Ansel Adams photography calendar and planner 2010 | Calendars
- Ansel Adams 2010 Softcover date book. Famous for his black and white landscape photography, Ansel Adems is unique in the world of nature pictures. His work is
- College Planners with nature photographs | Academic Planners
- These mid size academic organizers are beautifully illustrated with photos from nature. But they are also practical. They have monthly and weekly pages with
Oh, and meet my brothers
These lenses are mostly in Dutch, because that's the language they both mostly work in. Still, just looking at some of these videos you can get a clear idea about their style I think.-
Krijn Peter Hesselink
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Dichter, performer, poetry slam veteraan - mijn broertje (niemand anders mag dat zeggen) Krijn Peter doet het allemaal. Hier volgen de video's waar hij op staat. Sinds 2009 noemt hij zichzelf ook nog 'singer songwriter' en treedt hij op m...
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Sieger Baljon
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My youngest brother is a bit hard to catch on a lens like this. He does an awful lot of stuff. There's poetry, rap, mime and visual art, but somehow it never ads up to a clear 'image'. There is no easy way, even for his sister, to keep up with what h...
More of me on squidoo
In squidoo speak, this lens is called a lensography: a collection of lenses about a specific topic. I've made rather a lot of those. Here's a selection.-
Katinka Hesselink Online
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Going crazy trying to keep up with myself online. So this is where you can find me online and where I keep track of my many online profiles. There is a good chance you will find me elsewhere online as well. I'm not very good at keeping this list up t...
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Spirituality's Lensography of lensographies
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What can I say to introduce myself. I'm an online addict who has two spiritual blogs, one spiritual website and so on. I'm interested in Religion, Spirituality, Webdesign, Search Engines (aka Google), Science fiction, Fantasy literature, the environm...
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2010 Unique Calendars, agenda books and Creative Planners
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Calendars and planners are a necessity of life - well, if you have any intention of keeping organized that is. I've made it my business to find you the best engagement planners and inspiring calendars around. These are unique. My themes include n...
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The best spiritual books EVER
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Gathering all my spiritual book reviews together. Religion and spirituality fascinates me no end. I also love to read books - this lens combines both fascinations. I've reviewed quite a few spiritual books by now. Here you'll find my reviews...
So, how do you like my artsy lenses?
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- Treasures-By-Brenda Treasures-By-Brenda Aug 28, 2009 @ 7:07 pm
- Great lensography! Blessed. I'm off to meet your brother!
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