Handmade Paper Art and Textiles Flickr Group

I recently set up a group on Flickr called 'Handmade Paper Art and Textiles. The aim of the group is for people who use handmade paper in their artwork to post photos of their work. Photos of just handmade paper sheets are not excepted. The photos have to show how you use handmade paper in your art and textiles.

Below is an image of the first page of photos from the flickr group. If you would like to add photos to the group, you will need to hold a flickr account. Flickr is a great website for artists to promote their work and it is a simple site to use. You can upload 6 photos a week to the group.

Here is the address for the flickr group        http://www.flickr.com/groups/handmade_paper_art_textiles/

                              Please feel free to go and check out the groups work.

Whats in a name?

Funny how when you get married you never consider that changing your name could mean you become one of the masses. Oh course I knew Smith was a common name, but there are just way too many Sarah Smith. The last suburb I lived in had a Sarah Smith only a few streets from me. She had the same doctor, physiotherapy, hair dresser and chemist. I used to get her prescriptions and she would steal my hair appointments. I then moved suburbs and this ceased to be a problem.

I've been trying to establish a stronger online presence for myself lately, and Sarah Smith is just that bit too common. Therefore I've decided to be Sarah Bell Smith. Bell is my maiden name and I figure that it makes me slightly separate to all the other straight 'Sarah Smith's.' I've really changed it purely so that if you were to Google   'Sarah Bell Smith'  you would hopefully (fingers crossed) come up with my work.

Funny part is when I think back to my wedding day, I only decided as I walked down the isle that I would even take my husbands name.

So from here on in for all my artwork etc. (won't be changing credit cards, etc.) I am now

Sarah Bell Smith.    

Nice to meet you.

By the way, my flickr account is still the same.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/barefeetsarah/



So fingers are crossed that one day in the future when you google   'sarah bell smith', you will find ME......