Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Creative women


One of the walls in my studio.
 I have been so blessed to be surrounded by highly creative women all my life.  Grandma, aunts, mom, sisters, neice, daughter, friends and even neighbors have added such beauty and inspiration to my work and my life in general.  Up until a few weeks ago, I thought I was in some sort of vast network of creative women and was patting myself on the back for building a facebook page and etsy shop to market my creative wares.  (Oooo watch me go!  lol)  That network turned out to be but a dot.. a mere blip on the epicenter of creative women that is Google+.

I am by no means diminishing the amazing relationships I already have with these super creative friends and family of mine - they are the life force in my creative veins.  But the access I now have to all sorts of highly creative women of all walks of life is too much to measure.  Even at the slighted percentages, the fact that 10% of google+ is women is encouraging.  Through one of my Circles on Google+, I found this website Women of Google+.  It targets women who are on the frontlines of the Google+ test drive.  There are some truly amazing women there.  And I'm not talking just the techy chicks either (who totally amaze me with their talent as well!), there are artists, writers, college students, homeschoolers and everything in between.  A whole wide range of women who are on the cutting edge of social networking in a whole new way - and many, many of them are incredibly creative.

The flood gates have opened wide.

At this point, I am still really just processing how I will utilize Google+ and all it's wonderful bells and whistles, but the diversity of creative women is what's on my mind today.  And today, I will add at least ten of them into one or more of my many Circles.  Oh yeah, did I mention that I get to be creative there too??  Mmmhmmmm  Lovin it!

Women of Google+ is not owned nor managed by me and I make no claims on any content therein.