SHARE THE INSPIRATION AND WIN A 2010 LIVING OUT LOUD CALENDAR!

We're giving away twenty five brightly woven Living Out Loud calendars this fall, and you could end up with one (or more!) of them. But before you read on, ask yourself one question: Are you fierce? Because only the fiercest of creatures can hang with polka-dotted flamingos in striped stockings, dancing elephants and peacock-feathered women. Only fierce creatures flaunt their fabulous selves, empowered with possibility, fierce with reality!

Are you one of us? Then by all means, read on!

How it works:

Post a link to the Message From The Muse (MessagefromtheMuse.com) on your facebook page and/or your own blog/website. When complete, post a comment to this blog post, showing your link(s). (This is how we will get your name to put into our Hatter's hat!)

All names will go into our Mad Hatter hat - modeled here by Silas.

Contest runs September 6 to October 31. Winners announced November 1.

We are giving away 25 calendars, so your chances of winning are wonderfully good!

Calendars ship November 10th*

You can enter as many times as you'd like, as long as your link to MFTM is posted on different sites. (not multiple times on the same site). If your name is pulled more than once, you will win more calendars!

Not on Facebook? Not a problem! Post a link to Message from the Muse on your blog or website and leave a comment under this post showing where you have linked.

More Chances to win! Write an article/review of Message from the Muse of 200 words or more and you'll be entered twice for every article you post on a different website! When you write an article, just post that article to this post and we'll put your name in the hat twice for every article!

Please note: The impetus behind the contest is INSPIRATION! We wish to share the juicy living and luscious writing found on MFTM and grow our community!

*Calendars are free, winners pay postage of 5.00 within continental USA. International winners pay USPS flat rate air shipping.

Yo! This is so freakin' fun! We just got our inventory of bamboo prints in from Tree Free, who licenses some of our best images for really incredible prints. They're deliciously scrumptious, the colors just pop right off the print!

From the printer:

The museum quality giclee bamboo prints are 11"x14", archival matted around eco-friendly bamboo paper.  Each print is created with a giclee process. Giclee printing is the very best fine art printing method currently available in th eworld. It uses superior dyes and inks that lock in the true colors of the original work of art. The colors are bright and crisp and will last up to 300 years without fading. The quality of giclee print rivals traditional silver-halide and gelatin processes and is commonly found in museums, art galleries and photographic galleries.

And lemme tell ya folks, they ain't whistlin' Dixie! These rival the prints I've seen at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. We just adore that they're printed on eco-friendly bamboo paper, helping to save trees worldwide. They make fantastic Christmas presents, as well as birthday, anniversary, graduation, get well or just-cause gifts. The messages are inspirational, hopeful, uplifting and TOO GOOD AND TRUE!

You can view the entire line here.

Calling all dreamers, artists, writers, free thinkers, wish makers, secret keepers and daydream believers!

Our journals just arrived. Hooray! I think I've managed to handle all my Christmas shopping in one fell swoop. I'll be giving these gorgeous eco-friendly babies out as gifts and stocking stuffers this year. They're lovely. In fact, I've already started writing in one of my fave journals (Buddha-tude) and I love its size - fits in my purse for easy travel.

Here's the juicy stats from our publishing partner Tree Free:

Our eco-friendly journals are GREEN (hooray for the environment!) with 100% tree-free pages, vegetable based inks and 100% pcw recycled flexi cover board!! Each measures 6"x8" and contains 160 pages of luxuriously smooth, lined, 70lb paper.

But the other best thing? THE PRICE! Where can you get such beauty for $12? And it's the kind of beauty you see again and again as you chart your adventures, hopes and dreams. They make perfect Christmas, graduation, birthday or any-occasion gifts! They're so yummy I wanna start handing them out on the street. Makes me so happy to see our art and inspirational words on such a yummy, healthy product. Hooray!

Join the fun and get your Too Good and True journals now, baby, while they last! The entire line can be viewed here. 

At long last, our gorgeous canvas prints are here! Selections from our Living Out Loud and Message from the Muse lines are now available as 14"x18" large giclee canvas prints. And the best part? They're ready to hang! No frames, no mats, all you'll need is a hammer and a nail!

When you see these babes in person you'll fall in love. We did! Tree Free has licensed these images for us and prints them - get this - with a giclee printing process estimated to last 300 years! You will not see these babies in second hand stores 40 years from now looking faded and sad. Ohhhhh no! Giclee printing is the very best fine art printing method currently available in the world. It uses superior dyes and inks that lock in the true colors of the original work of art.  The quality of giclee print rivals traditional silver-halide and gelatin processes and is commonly found in museums, art galleries and photographic galleries.

Each museum quality giclee canvas print is mounted on a wood stretcher, ready for immediate display, no framing necessary. Woohoo!

Check out the complete line here!