Creative Cafe

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Welcome to Creative Cafe


Creative Cafe is a social network where members show off their art, photography, crafts, music, videos and write blogs. Creative Cafe is a charitable group run by volunteers with mental health & other disabilities in Brighton UK. Membership is free and open to everyone. We invite you to join and get your own Creative Cafe page
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    SITE POLICY JUNE 2009
    New Members must now be approved by admin in order to prevent further spammer problems.
    SITE POLICY February 2009
    In the last week we have had a problem with SPAMMERS signing up as members not filling in their profiles and then writing spam blog posts advertising dubious products which have nothing to do with being creative.
    So our Creative Cafe policy is now to just ban such members as soon as they are spotted without any explanation.
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    All the old Cafe News are now filed in the Cafe News Old Editions discussion.


    Create Construct Concoct Chat ..Develop and share all your talents in Creative Cafe.

    Members

    • Tomas
    • Jill
    • Mandy Lawrence
    • Aileen Clarke
    • Juliana RW
    • PaulineH
    • Azzami Bell
    • kRiZcPEc
    • Gabbriella
    • Richard Spasoff
    • omshanti
    • marion barnett
    • Richard Burton
    • Kerri
    • Shelagh Watkins
    • Smilesandsunshine
    • zarumbatus
    • WILMA (aka Julia)
    • desik
    • Sarah Dees

    About Creative Cafe

    Creative Cafe is a charitable group which supports people with disabilities. Make a donation here



    How does creativity happen in your head? Is it like a lightbulb going on and off? Or a flash of inspiration? However it happens for you welcome to the Creative Cafe where you can let your imagination run wild. In the Creative Cafe you can design your page YOUR WAY. Show off your creativity. Display your art, designs, photographs , music, poetry and writing.


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    Picture of the Moment

    Created by Jill Apr 20, 2009 at 11:16pm. Last updated by Jill Apr 20.

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    Art Exhibitions: Natural Responses (GB)

    Starts on Sun, 09 Aug 2009
    A mixed exhibition by four artists who have undertaken residencies at Sudborough Green Lodge:- Claudia Fährenkemper, Alex Metcalf, Jacques Nimki and Martin Prothero. ...

    Art Competitions: International Art & Culture Festival 2009 (DK)

    Starts on Wed, 25 Feb 2009
    The Festival's goal is to gather artists, cultural workers and organisations together to establish and maintain contacts and to share experiences and views. ...

    Art Exhibitions: Polaroids: Mapplethorpe (GB)

    Starts on Sat, 04 Jul 2009
    This exhibition traces the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography from 1970 to 1975. ...

    Art Exhibitions: Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today (GB)

    Starts on Fri, 29 May 2009
    This exhibition looks at the moment in twentieth-century art, when a group of artists began to perceive colour as 'readymade' rather than as scientific or expressive. ...

    Craft Fairs: Clare Priory Craft Fair (GB)

    Starts on Sat, 11 Jul 2009
    On the second Saturday and Sunday of July the grounds of the Priory are given over to a Craft Fair which is usually extremely well received. ...
     

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    This NEW Creative Cafe Salesrooms Group (JOIN HERE) is for Creative Cafe members who want to buy and sell their Art and Handmade Crafts

    Current Side Picture: Textile Abtract by our Creative Cafe member Aileen Clarke who lives in Scotland. Aileen makes wonderful embroidered fabric fused crafts in the form of cards and pictures which you can see in her shop. You can also find Aileen on her page at My Space and Flickr.

    IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE FEATURED ABOVE ENTER THE
    Creative Cafe Side Pictures Design Challenge.

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    Jill

    Textile Abstract by Aileen Clarke is our new Creative Cafe Side Picture Design Challenge Winner


    It is the turn of talented artist Aileen Clarke to be winner of our Side Picture Design Challenge this week. Aileen submitted three lovely designs which you can see on her… Continue

    Posted by Jill on July 10, 2009 at 4:00pm

    Mandy Lawrence

    Making Progress

    This is most recent lot of cutty outty bits. Going to stay with friends next week and they have asked me to put together a box of my cards so they can sell them on their market stall. I have also heard back from local school and have a stall booked for their September Festival.

    Little steps and all that:



    Continue

    Posted by Mandy Lawrence on July 10, 2009 at 2:04pm — 1 Comment

    omshanti

    Friday Feature

    ...well, this wasn't supposed to post until Friday, so I don't know what the heck is going on here, but I guess I'll go with it.

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    Posted by omshanti on July 9, 2009 at 4:30pm

    Juliana RW

    Wedding Postage on SALE

    25% discount applies to the net sale price of qualifying orders of 5 or more sheets of Zazzle Custom Stamps. For Zazzle Custom Stamps, the net sale price is the difference between the price of the Zazzle Custom Stamps (excluding shipping and taxes) and the face value of the postage. The coupon code WEDDINGPOST9 must be entered during checkout to receive the offer. Offer is valid from… Continue

    Posted by Juliana RW on July 9, 2009 at 11:53am

    Christopher Stewart

    The Music Of Poligraf : Leftoverturned part 1


    (Detail from "American quilt" )






    When I complete a composition there are often unused id

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    Posted by Christopher Stewart on July 8, 2009 at 4:36pm — 1 Comment

    omshanti

    Zazzle Shop!

    Round about Wednesday I managed to get kinda bored. No, I don't know how -- it's not like I have nothing to do! -- but there it was, and I cast about for something to do.

    Here are the results:





    Yes, I've opened a Zazzle store -- Om Shanti Photography! I've been taking pictures ever since I got my awesome camera anyway, so I figure I might as well. Especially when I'm so very proud of some of the picture… Continue

    Posted by omshanti on July 7, 2009 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

    omshanti

    Friday Feature

    This was supposed to go up on Friday, but I seem to be having trouble with scheduled posts not getting posted. So, uh, just pretend it's Friday?

    I'm kinda losing track of where I'm finding awesome people to feature, now, so let's say this is just an ongoing list of Etsy folks making really, really awesome stuff.

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    Posted by omshanti on July 7, 2009 at 4:59pm

    Gabbriella

    Christmas in July at Gabbriella's Sampler


    http://gabbriellascloset.com
    Visit us now for the Christmas in July Sale ...listing under the NEWS button of participating Shops....also visit the Participants & Sponsors for the July Sampler which goes on sale July 16...Par… Continue

    Posted by Gabbriella on July 7, 2009 at 7:19am

    omshanti

    Lilies: the SCA

    That being what Lilies is all about of course.

    I spent several days hearing about 'The Machine' and being a little nervous, and Lo and behold one day I awaken to find this behind my tent:

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    Posted by omshanti on July 6, 2009 at 9:30pm

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    Creative Cafe Members Introductions 14 Replies

    It has occured to me that we have nowhere in particular on Creative Cafe for members to introduce themselves to the group and so I hope you will all be able to do that here now. Just to start thin...

    Tagged: members, introductions, creative, cafe

    Started by Jill in Hellos and Welcomes to New Members. Last reply by Dawn Howard Feb 2.

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    Who wants to Link Exchange with us on Creative Cafe? 50 Replies

    Hi Ok I have been reading about the importance of getting back links on your website for some time. I have never made much effort with this I'm afraid. There are a few members links on Creative Ca...

    Tagged: traffic, creative cafe, links, exchange, increase

    Started by Jill in Marketing and Promoting your Work and other Business issues. Last reply by Jill 1 day ago.

    Jill

    Music you like here! 63 Replies

    Sometime like when we were having Mandys birthday party yesterday I just like finding good music tracks I like on You Tube and listening to some sounds old and new. And I notice we sometimes are le...

    Tagged: favourites, music, like, videos

    Started by Jill in General. Last reply by Azzami Bell Mar 20.

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