The activity of worrying

Let’s start this blogpost with a picture, for a change…

Letters from the Wasteland – 6th Letter

(Size: 16 x 11 cm - 6.3 x 4.3 inch. Materials used: gesso,
acrylic paint, dried rose petals and cut out text from an
old fairytale book.)

I made this ‘Letter’ a while ago – and it seemed to be the last bright
and ‘sweet’ letter for a while, ’cause let me show you what came next…

As you all know, last week the debut issue of my magazine FEATURING
was send to the first customers – and of course it took some time before
they received their copy. This is the Letter I made during those days.

Letters from the Wasteland – 7th Letter

(Size: 16 x 11 cm - 6.3 x 4.3 inch. Materials used: pieces of
handmade paper, acrylic paint, distress ink, torn image (desert),
stamp, template,  glimmer mist ('graphit') and cut out text from
an old fairytale book.

My magazine ‘baby’ has both the looks and the brains – I know that –
but will ‘the world’ see it too? All the time that we worked on the magazine,
I was convinced about how good it is – (and I still am!) – as is the team –
but sending the copies out into the world suddenly scared me to pieces.
How would the first readers react? MAN I had a ROUGH week!

The Chronicles of Marit 2012 – Week 17

(Size: 24,5 x 49 cm – 9.65 x 14.86 inch)

“It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because
there’s nothing you can do about them. The activity of worrying keeps you
immobilized.” ~ Wayne Dyer ~

‘Immobilized’ – that’s indeed the right word to depict week 17.
‘Paralized’ might be even a better word to describe how I felt.

The only thing I did was put a daily sneak peek of an article on Facebook.
There were ‘likes’
a lot of ‘likes’ 🙂

And then…

the comments started to come in on facebook:

Mhh and it looks great. You don`t hear me this evening :-))))

Just received my copy. Looks great. Looking forward to
reading the interesting articles

Just LOVE FEATURING! It’s gorgeous, smart, polished and so
creative in its content, visual display and the articles! You
have a real WINNER here. I am so honored and blessed to have
work of mine in your premier issue. Can’t wait to see issue 2!

Got mine today, and boy oh boy! I’m loving it!!!!!!!

Congratulations on a terrific job!

I just received my copy and I LOVE IT! Congratulations to Marit
and all of the contributors! This magazine is informative, thought
provoking, and has plenty of beautiful and insightful artwork:)
Will definitely recommend to my friends.

And here are some blogposts:

Blogpost by Mumkaa

Blogpost by Marcia Beckett – Dabblings

Blogpost by Diane Rank – the EXpreSSiVe PaLeTTe

Blogpost by Jill Zaheer – JazWorks

Am I still worried now?
Do I have reason to?

Know what?
NO
And I will keep on going to give this baby exposure.
I will try and give it the best start it possibly can have.
I will keep on uploading sneak peeks on Facebook this week.
I will twitter.
And shout:
ORDER YOUR COPY HERE, IT’S SOOO WORTH IT!

I’m going for it all the way – dear ones – ’cause I believe in it!

All our dreams come true if we have the courage
to pursue them ~ Walt E. Disney ~