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Decoración de interiores&exteriores y construcción. Diy & Home. Explore and Learn. Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran In celebration of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's twenty-fifth anniversary, the Freer and Sackler's extraordinary collection of luxury metalwork from ancient Iran goes on view in the walkway between the two museums. Learn more » Worlds Within Worlds India's Mughal emperors, who reigned over a vast and wealthy empire that extended from Kabul over most of the South Asian subcontinent between the sixteenth and the nineteenth century, were passionate about lavish manuscripts and paintings. Between 1556 and 1650, the greatest Mughal patrons—the emperors Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan—formed grand workshops that brought together and nurtured India's leading painters, calligraphers and illuminators.

Sweet Silent Thought In Victorian England in the nineteenth century, life was separated into gendered spheres. Learn more » India: Shiva Nataraja (Lord of the Dance) Learn more » Waves at Matsushima Learn more » A Journey to Xiangtangshan Learn more » 7 Strange Questions That Help You Find Your Life Purpose. One day, when my brother was 18, he waltzed into the living room and proudly announced to my mother and me that one day he was going to be a senator. My mom probably gave him the “That’s nice, dear,” treatment while I’m sure I was distracted by a bowl of Cheerios or something.

But for fifteen years, this purpose informed all of my brother’s life decisions: what he studied in school, where he chose to live, who he connected with and even what he did with many of his vacations and weekends. And now, after almost half a lifetime of work later, he’s the chairman of a major political party in his city and the youngest judge in the state. In the next few years, he hopes to run for office for the first time. Don’t get me wrong. Most of us have no clue what we want to do with our lives. Chances are you’re more like me and have no clue what you want to do.

Part of the problem is the concept of “life purpose” itself. Here’s the truth. So when people say, “What should I do with my life?” Ah, yes. How to Master the Art of “Effective Surprise” and the 6 Essential Conditions for Creativity. By Maria Popova “Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.” One of the greatest preoccupations not only of our culture but of our civilization is the question of what creativity is, dating back to the dawn of recorded thought.

But it wasn’t until the advent of modern psychology in the early twentieth century that our answers to the question began to take the shape of something more structured and systematic than metaphysical hunches — there’s Graham Wallace’s model of the four stages of the creative process from 1926, a five-step “technique for producing ideas” from 1939, Arthur Koestler’s famous “bisociation” theory of how creativity works from 1964, and a number of derivative modern ideas. But one of the most compelling in the past century comes from the influential Harvard psychologist Jerome Bruner (b. Jerome Bruner There is something antic about creating, although the enterprise be serious. 41 Insanely Helpful Style Charts Every Woman Needs Right Now. Storybird - Artful Storytelling. The 100 best free fonts | Design.

In this freshly updated free fonts for designers post, we bring you the world's best free fonts. We've filtered out the diamonds from the thousands of less perfectly designed free fonts available online, for you to use in your designs and illustrations. Get Adobe Creative Cloud now This list represents the 55 best free fonts we've found in eight categories.

You can use the drop-down menu at the top of the page, or the boxout, right, to jump to the section you want. Don't forget, we have many other articles covering specialist font types including handwriting fonts, kids' fonts, cursive fonts, beautiful fonts, web fonts, professional fonts and more. Most of the typeface collections listed here can be used in your projects for free, but please be sure to check the terms. Serif fonts 01. This free serif display font takes inspiration from the late 18th century European Enlightenment and the work type designer John Baskerville. 02. Lora is a free font that has its roots in calligraphy. 03. Ideas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with Photos You Didn't Take. Scrapbook page storytelling with photos taken by others can be a necessity, a pleasure, and even a challenge. Sue Althouse knows about this first-hand because her husband is an avid and skilled photographer who often provides the photos she’s scrapbooking.

Last spring, I interviewed Sue for Get It Scrapped members on this topic. Check that video interview out here now and see how our team made their own pages with others’ photos. At the Get It Scrapped membership WE TALK A LOT, with 3 to 5 live events every month. All of those interviews and office hours sessions (close to 300) are a part of a Get It Scrapped membership. Join us and start watching and listening today. Marie-Pierre Capistran says, “This is the daughter of one of my good friend at a soccer clinic in Montreal. “My friend is a scrapbooker and she has four children, and I know she appreciates it when I make a page for her. “A challenge when scrapbooking a photo for someone else is coming up with journaling. Creatures | The Creature Book. Dendrite - Rewrite. Photoshop. Pasteasy - The quickest app to copy text messages & photos between your phone & computer!

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