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Revelation. As we grow, our perceptions of various aspects change, and perhaps we uncover something that is important that we haven't discovered or made known to us before. Often, these revelations are most abundant during our adolescent years, where we are slowly morphing from young children to beautiful, independent fine women. Where it be that today's beauty standards are difficult to define, or allowing yourself to cry in a place that says to conceal your feels, to finding strength in the tiniest places, perhaps in a coffee shop while reading Pride and Prejudice with your back against the brick wall or watching <i>Downton Abbey</i> wallowed up in blankets at seven in the morning, there is something out there that everyone has discovered, and something out there that everyone can share.</div>
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Yup! Many of our feedback responses have asked to have an even combination of all of the art forms. In order for us to accomplish this, we will ask our fellow contributors to rank their top three preferred mediums. Later, we'll notify what mediums you'll be using. This does sound a bit restricting-- we're not a huge fan of this method, either, but since we don't have a large base of readers and contributors to draw in from and would like some variety, we believe this is the best way, for now, for allowing this aspect to run.</div>
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<br />Nicole Isabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10457815995201762446noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224772855287837573.post-10094499177979773682016-09-04T13:00:00.000-07:002016-09-04T13:00:00.174-07:00When Traveling | Guest Post By Rachel <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Keep your eyes, heart, mind open. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Love the people even if they’re different. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recognize the humanity in all of us. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Put the filter on your Instagram pictures, but not on the way you view things or how you know God views things. It is what it is. And it isn’t what it isn’t.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Listen to the sounds of the city.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Listen to songs while traveling or walking around. They’ll help you remember things, later on, that you wouldn’t normally remember.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the ride home? And after you get back? Remember. Remember what it felt like to be walking around the haze-covered streets with multitudes of other people you’ll never meet, remember what it felt like to eat freshly fried fish at high noon with sweat on your skin and salt on your lips, remember what it felt like to sit quietly in the subway and watch everyone’s gazes follow each other, then quickly jerk away when eye contact was made. We shy away from connection; why do we do that?</span></span></div>
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The history about <i>Paper Comets</i> and Freckled Minds is this: both of the founders rarely ever interacted in the blogging world, except for the occasional comments every once in awhile. One lazy summer day, the idea of creating a yearbook anthology sort of thing for the 2016 blogging community strolled into Morning's mind, around the same time Ava brainstormed an idea for creating a community zine. The two emailed each other at around the same time on the exact same day.</div>
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Both founders decided to collaborate together to create a creative hub community, known as Freckled Minds, and since both of us each wanted to do our own little thing, we both created our own zines: Ava's zine is Sacred Zine Club (publish date to be determined), focused more towards the visual arts aspect, while Morning's would mainly overlook <i>Paper Comets</i>, the zine focused more towards the word-writing aspect and the idea of artistic vision.</div>
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For <i>Paper Comets</i>, roughly fifteen bloggers gathered together to share their artistic talents, and now, we are ready to reveal the final product that has been in the works for over fifteen months! </div>
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Our theme for our first issue was words: words that we felt were important to us.
Tell us what you all think! We're constantly looking for contributors, both in the zine and the Freckled Minds site, so if you are a female creative mind over the age of fourteen, looking for a platform to cultivate your personal artistic voice, this is a platform that can potentially bring you out to a larger audience! We're expanding out to more electronic mediums: songwriting and film making are a few to name.
If you wouldn't mind, could you possibly provide us feedback using the form below? And if you would like to contribute, visit the <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/hgSeWmrhpKWPgnQJ2">link here.</a>
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We hope you enjoy the first issue of <i>Paper Comets</i> (and possibly we will see you contribute soon)!
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224772855287837573.post-2252730913579883512016-08-30T14:29:00.000-07:002016-08-30T16:17:27.461-07:00FM Update, Fall 2016<div>
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We are now accepting contributor forms for the winter zines</span></b> (themes and more info coming soon)!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Are you or your </span></span><span style="color: #222222;">friends</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> young creative teenagers yearning to seek a platform to allow your artistic talent to shine? Then yo</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">u've come by the right place! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">1) <b>Interact with us on social media</b>. We're available on </span><a href="https://twitter.com/FreckledMinds" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Twitter</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/freckledminds/" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Pinterest</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, and </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/freckled.minds/" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Instagram</a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Tag photos or tweets of your artistic projects or other activities that you have been up to recently, using #FreckledMinds, and your photo may just be featured on our social medias for the weekend! You can also submit photos to us via our email, freckledminds[at]gmail[dot]com to potentially have your photos incorporated into future zine issues!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">2) <b>Guest post</b>. Guest posts can be written on virtually any subject, although we do have a certain set of general guidelines listed </span><a href="http://freckledmind.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">here</a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">. We accept any medium: art, writing, collages, even videos: i.e. beat poetry, song covers, short films, and dances! For inquires, please email us with the subject line, "Freckled Minds Guest Post."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3) <b>Name an artist</b>. At Freckled Minds, we are hoping to expand outside of the US blogging community and meet more individuals from various countries and walks of life, such as fellow songwriters, video producers, prose speakers, landscape photographers-- and we'd like for them to meet you to and potentially inspire all of us! If you have a friend within any of these fields of interests, invite them over to see Freckled Minds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">4) <b>Suggest ideas</b>. Ideas and imagination are both the epitome for creative minds. Have an idea on a social media theme or a post series we could do? Share it with us via our email, using the subject line, "Suggestions."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ps. We have a new editor, <a href="https://florrall.blogspot.co.uk/">Nicole</a>! She will now be in charge of organizing and editing all non-accouncment posts. :)</span></span></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224772855287837573.post-75444363413106967312016-08-27T15:05:00.002-07:002016-08-27T15:17:37.106-07:009 Creative Ways to Spend Your Lazy Days | Guest Post by Mackenzie Rae<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9CwAkCO65CD0iF1YPJdo9r2vAG-TBnddHohEmZMmxSVFnEwcx9MApiEVs1p21p_Ah0hGHbtn5wBr588ItUFduZJCD4HwUiB_JMgYum3dXBqYHy_dId6uKihV72Ex6YayJ3qjZo9G65Q/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-08-27+at+3.57.35+PM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9CwAkCO65CD0iF1YPJdo9r2vAG-TBnddHohEmZMmxSVFnEwcx9MApiEVs1p21p_Ah0hGHbtn5wBr588ItUFduZJCD4HwUiB_JMgYum3dXBqYHy_dId6uKihV72Ex6YayJ3qjZo9G65Q/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-08-27+at+3.57.35+PM.png" /></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It could be anything- just write! Lazy days are days to get away from the normal everyday things you do. They are the kind of days where you can do the extra things you've been wanting to do. Basically, the senseless things that don't fit in with your "productive" category. Get what I mean? Or nah? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currently writing a book or a short story? I like to go on Pinterest and look at sketches of characters (</span><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/301319031296786182/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like this</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) and try to draw my own version of them. I find that so much fun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can still go on Pinterest and look at drawings or photographs of characters to inspire you for your upcoming story! Want to get started? Check out my </span><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/dontouchmypizza/storyboard/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Storyboard</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I know I probably sound like your mother right now, but I actually like cleaning my room. It allows me to clear my mind and grasp onto new ideas. It is also a way I can get lost in all the things I own. I tend to get distracted every time I clean my room, but I don't mind. I like to rearrange it as well, it makes it look new and different. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Change is good </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(remember that).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Go outside (or stay inside), it's time to get out that journal you promised you would fill up. Just fill a few pages with doodles and small writing pieces. I never said it had to make sense, as long as the words are there and your mind is flowing into your pen and onto the paper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, it's time to get that cupcake recipe you've been </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dying </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to try. I know I like baking when there's nothing else to do. It’s also creatively yummy. ;)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">+ Write to an old friend</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a certain art for when it comes to writing letters. If you like to create, then this is perfect! Draw little doodles on the outside of your envelopes- give the postman a smile!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, those were a few things I do on lazy days or what I might do. (Not saying I do all of those things because most of the time I just stare at a blank wall. Haha- I'm not kidding.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mackenzie // <a href="http://thoughts-of-a-fangirl.blogspot.com/">think. eat. write. read.</a></span></div>
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What is art? How do we, as artists, grow, and how can we connect with other creative-minded individuals?</div>
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Hello, and welcome to Freckled Minds, an art collective for and by teen girls. Here you will find updates on our newest projects, in process shots, tips and tricks on creating, and inspiring interviews. We believe in the expression and growth of personal artistic voice via the interaction a creative mind has with her surroundings and community. Below are some of the upcoming projects we have in store.<br />
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<b>Sacred Zine Club!</b>, edited and designed by Ava:<br />
The goal for this zine was to create a beautiful and nostalgic piece of tangible art.<br />
Sacred Zine Club (official title has yet to be determined) is a collection of personally significant memories, small snippets of the contributing artists' life they never want to forget.<br />
Currently it includes the talents of <a href="https://florrall.blogspot.co.uk/">Nicole</a>, <a href="http://kalopcia.blogspot.com/">Cia</a>, <a href="http://mybluecastleintheclouds.blogspot.com/">Rebekah "Ke'alohi" Wang</a>, <a href="http://downbythewillows.blogspot.com/">Adelaide</a>, <a href="http://ponderousthoughtsairiefeelings.blogspot.com/">Nina</a>, Kathryn, and <a href="http://theworldthroughmywindowsill.blogspot.com/">MorningTime4</a>, and is scheduled to print mid-August.<br />
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<b>Paper Comets</b>, edited and designed by Morning:<br />
The cultivation and of personal voice, especially during the teenage years, is exceptionally important, and that is the primary goal with Paper Comets. Unlike its sister magazine, Seasons Zine, Paper Comets will be distributed digitally for free. After brainstorming for many days over a theme, the collective decision for the first issue is to base the theme around words, each choosing a word or a set of words and conveying what it means to them, instilling their own personal touches in various mediums. All talented minds behind our first issue are wonderful ladies, hailing from different parts of the globe and different blogging eras, eager to share their creative mindset: <a href="http://graceineverything.blogspot.com/">Hannah</a>, <a href="http://awritersfaith.blogspot.com/">Katie</a>, <a href="http://demigodsandunicornsblog.weebly.com/">Anna</a>, <a href="http://landofquiet.blogspot.com/">Ava</a>, <a href="http://fictionandtea.blogspot.com/">Bethan</a>, <a href="http://www.selfknownblog.com/">Rose</a>, <a href="http://thoughts-of-a-fangirl.blogspot.com/">Mackenzie</a>, <a href="http://summerof1999.blogspot.com/">Olivia</a>, <a href="http://www.abbieemusicblog.com/">Abbie</a>, <a href="http://www.silvermess.com/">Rachel</a>, <a href="http://www.theteentrepreneur.com/">Sophia</a>, <a href="http://totallygraced.blogspot.com/">Grace</a>, <a href="https://autumnreadsandwritesallday.blogspot.com/">Autumn</a>, and <a href="http://www.thereidwhowrites.com/">Mary Shelley</a>. The tentative release date is late August through early September.<br />
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There are other ways to contribute sans the magazine, and there are two we wish to share with you right now. Excluding the founders' blogs and this blog, we are looking for about seven to nine volunteers who are willing to help host a blog tour to promote Freckled Minds, a tentative end date around September 1st. Once the idea's plans are more solidified, we will make another announcement. If you are interested, comment below or contact us via the contact form! Another way to contribute is to send us your photos, either of you working on the magazine projects or engaging in other artistic endeavors, and we may just feature them on our social media! Lastly, we are also asking to ask us more questions for our FAQ about things that you are unsure of.<br />
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As time passes, we will frequently be updating this blog with more announcements and other goodies, so be sure to keep an eye on that! Be sure to follow our <a href="http://twitter.com/FreckledMinds">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://instagram.com/freckledminds_">Instagram</a>, and <a href="http://pinterest.com/freckledminds">Pinterest</a> to keep up with us virtually, 24/7. Thanks for stopping by, and we hope to that you enjoy exploring Freckled Minds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0