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It is all through Love and doing it with Heart. A look back to the past twenty years of Blogging with "Elle" Laurie Pace, Texas Artist



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 Do it with heART
First Published Book in 2008
(no longer available)
 by Laurie Pace  

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"For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don't use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love. For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another." Galatians 5:13-15 

I remember putting this first book together and weaving into it the daily blogs I was writing. No I did not use ALL of the blogs or ALL of the paintings in 2008, just a variety of ones I did that year. At this time I was painting a little bit of everything, and some were photos from prior years. I am not sure where all the photos are today of those paintings, but I am thrilled my husband found this book in a box in the attic with another book I did after this. I use to put out a new book every year. I did not make money by doing it, but I did satisfy my collectors with something special.  I will be photographing the pages inside for the blog posts coming up.

WHY BLOG?

Why would I blog?  My youngest brother was sharing his travels back in 2000 going forward. That is when I discovered Google Blogger.  I started blogging in probably 2004 maybe. I have published 3846 blogs since then and if you do the math I am going to round it up and say approx 200 days of blogging each year.  BUT, that being said, some years I blogged every single day but in the area of 2013-today... it was hit and miss. 

Most people do not grasp the full benefit of blogging on GOOGLE BLOGGER.  They have the best SEO.  Could you doubt that?  When people search something I have 3846 posts out there that are visited at any time depending on the search. 

My first posts spoke of what I was doing and about the painting I posted. As I turned the corner into 2007, I began blogging about life and how God worked in my life. It was in February of that year that I truly opened my heart when my oldest grandson died at age 11. Over the following 10 days, I heard from people all over the world. That was my first realization that someone out there was actually reading what I posted daily.  It spurred me on to the realization if I reached only one person a day with my writing about our Lord, His Word and life as we live it on earth, I wanted to pass this message on to others. There is always hope. He goes before us always.

This was the first book to share all types of my work, and not just my horses. I hope you will enjoy the days ahead taking a look back at the jump from teaching art to actually using art to make a living.  I had worked as a graphic designer with an ad agency, head of the department, but this was working and painting.  My roots to sell and tune my painting started on Ebay. I will blog about that later.  This blog was meant to encourage you to use the gifts He has given you and to serve others those gifts through love. 

In the world we live in today, here in America you no longer recognize Americans... the American spirit of home, faith, family and apple pie as they use to say. People with not just integrity to step out to help others, but people that forget about themselves and put others first.  God is our Father and it is learning from His Word, the scriptures through reading and prayer you begin to grasp the 'do unto others as you would do unto yourself'.  Think about that one... till my next blog. 

Not sure I can blog on the weekend, but I will give it a go. 


Follow the Spirit of God here as well as the Spirit of the Paint... with Elle aka Laurie Pace


Laurie Pace - A Texas Artist 


             


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Laurie is an international artist, her paintings are collected in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, DuBai, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, St Thomas, Romania, Greece, Croatia, and Ecuador.  



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Jo Castillo said…
I've followed your blog for years, started with seeing your horses as I remember. I use my blog as a journal with art and thoughts. Nice to see someone still using their blog. It isn't as popular as it once was with everyone liking social media, quick and fast. Thanks for keeping it up.
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