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The Iris Blooms
Over the weekend, I participated in my first Maypole Dance. I think only half of it may have been woven properly. It was frantic and...
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Loveday Funck
Mar 7, 20223 min read
Follow the Wind
As the sky gently shifted from darkness to light, I began to set up at a local market. The weather was warm but a gentle breeze blew...
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Loveday Funck
Feb 28, 20223 min read
Is it Time to Create our Own Stories?
(25% of all sales of my Bloom Where You're Planted artwork for the next month will go directly to the Voices of Children Foundation in...
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Loveday Funck
Jan 10, 20222 min read
Why the Side Hustle? Or, Was your Cat Royalty in a Past Life?
Customize your pet here I try to stay positive, optimistic, and hopeful. Time and again, I've been willing to believe that the worst is...
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Loveday Funck
Dec 6, 20212 min read
Is Frida Kahlo a Great Artist?
What makes an artist great? I was scrolling through google recently an article title leaped out at me: "Why Frida Kahlo Still Isn’t a...
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Loveday Funck
Nov 29, 20212 min read
Feel the Energy Of Louis Wain
As a lover of Victorian ephemera and cats, I discovered Louis Wain many years ago. At that time, information on his life was hard to...
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Loveday Funck
Nov 23, 20212 min read
Believe in the Possibility of You
I dreamt last night that I needed to go back to school, starting with an Alice in Wonderland Theater Class. Of course, from my initial...
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Loveday Funck
Nov 16, 20213 min read
How to Pick a GOOD ART Event from a BAD ART Event
The emphasis here is on the event being good or bad, not on the art. As the veteran of a hundred odd art events, I've learned a bit about...
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Loveday Funck
Nov 2, 20212 min read
You Deserve to be Happy
"Do what you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life." Maybe, but probably not. From our earliest childhood, society asks...
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Loveday Funck
Oct 26, 20212 min read
Epiphanies in Self Love
Most artists love their studios. Our art supplies live there. Our finished work lives there. Our work in progress lives there, but I...
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Loveday Funck
Oct 19, 20213 min read
New Orleans without the Art and the Music
What would a New Orleans look like if it were inhabited by nothing but responsible adults? What if we made all the dreamers leave? What...
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Loveday Funck
Oct 12, 20212 min read
Self Love and Self Care
What was the last thing that you did just for you? What act of self care have you performed in the last week or even the last month? Or...
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Loveday Funck
Oct 5, 20212 min read
The Butterfly Effect of Frida Kahlo
A butterfly flapping its wings, according to Chaos Theory, can create a devastating tornado in a few weeks time. Frida Kahlo boarding a...
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Loveday Funck
Sep 28, 20213 min read
When Did You Become a Misfit?
On Saturday, I set up at the New Orleans Art Market in Marsalis Harmony Park (formerly Palmer Park) at the corner of Claiborne and...
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Loveday Funck
Sep 21, 20211 min read
Rolling on the Mighty Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second largest river in the United States, conjoined to the largest, the Missouri. The Mississippi nourishes...
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Loveday Funck
Sep 14, 20212 min read
New Orleans Fairy Tale: Surviving the Storm
It's been a rough couple of years: the fluctuating number of Covid cases determining whether I'd be able to work from one month to...
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Loveday Funck
Sep 7, 20212 min read
Why New Orleans?
On the evening of September 29th, Hurricane Ida swept through southern Louisiana, knocking power and knocking over trees; destroying...
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Loveday Funck
Aug 10, 20212 min read
Is this the New Normal?
As 2021 began, I was full of cautious optimism. As soon as I could, I received both of my vaccines and began to reengage with people that...
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Loveday Funck
Dec 1, 20202 min read
The Gratitude Attitude
I spent almost two years working on my Deck of the New Orleans Tarot Cats. I blogged weekly as I finished a card and shared aspects of my...
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Loveday Funck
Nov 17, 20204 min read
The Past is Never at Rest
Last year, I took an art marketing class. One of the exercises in the class was to examine your life and re-tell it as a Hero's Journey....
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