Can I call it "Spring Cleaning" when Summer is virtually upon us?

I thought a bit of sprucing up on the old blog was called for. 

SpringCleaning
As you can see, a new header!  I've also moved some stuff around and deleted a lot of extraneous content in order to try and make visiting an easy and intuitive experience.

If you'd like a guided tour of the changes, watch the video below:

Balzer Designs Blog Tour May 2012 from Julie Balzer on Vimeo.

I hope that you like the changes.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks for stopping by!

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

Based outside of Boston, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is a painter, printmaker, and collage artist who constructs vibrant compositions. Her artwork investigates the interplay of identity and perception, inviting viewers to take a longer look. Julie works in layers, both physically and metaphorically, exploring what is visible and what is concealed. Passionate about connecting with and inspiring other artists, she shares her expertise through in-person workshops and her online classroom at MyArtPractice.com. Julie's achievements include high-profile clients, multiple publications - including her book, “Carve Stamp Play” - and exhibits in New York City and throughout Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Brown University.

85 thoughts on “Spring Cleaning

  • Honestly Julie, you are amazing. (I have to tell you this. when I wrote that first sentence my wordy replace thingy changed “amazing” to “amazon”! How unflattering a way to start a blog comment. Good thing I was paying attention here at 2:32 in the morning!) As usual, I digress… Going back — You truly are amazing. (it tried to do it again!) People change blogs all the time and don’t explain it nor in most cases even acknowledge a difference. You did a video of everything. Bravo to you. I totally learned so many things that I never knew. You rock. Too bad you don’t seem to ever teach near Detroit (pretty much nobody does) which makes coming to a live class would be difficult. But I swear I am going to try to figure out a way. As always thanks for your time and information!

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  • Honestly Julie, you are amazing. (I have to tell you this. when I wrote that first sentence my wordy replace thingy changed “amazing” to “amazon”! How unflattering a way to start a blog comment. Good thing I was paying attention here at 2:32 in the morning!) As usual, I digress… Going back — You truly are amazing. (it tried to do it again!) People change blogs all the time and don’t explain it nor in most cases even acknowledge a difference. You did a video of everything. Bravo to you. I totally learned so many things that I never knew. You rock. Too bad you don’t seem to ever teach near Detroit (pretty much nobody does) which makes coming to a live class would be difficult. But I swear I am going to try to figure out a way. As always thanks for your time and information!

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  • Honestly Julie, you are amazing. (I have to tell you this. when I wrote that first sentence my wordy replace thingy changed “amazing” to “amazon”! How unflattering a way to start a blog comment. Good thing I was paying attention here at 2:32 in the morning!) As usual, I digress… Going back — You truly are amazing. (it tried to do it again!) People change blogs all the time and don’t explain it nor in most cases even acknowledge a difference. You did a video of everything. Bravo to you. I totally learned so many things that I never knew. You rock. Too bad you don’t seem to ever teach near Detroit (pretty much nobody does) which makes coming to a live class would be difficult. But I swear I am going to try to figure out a way. As always thanks for your time and information!

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  • Honestly Julie, you are amazing. (I have to tell you this. when I wrote that first sentence my wordy replace thingy changed “amazing” to “amazon”! How unflattering a way to start a blog comment. Good thing I was paying attention here at 2:32 in the morning!) As usual, I digress… Going back — You truly are amazing. (it tried to do it again!) People change blogs all the time and don’t explain it nor in most cases even acknowledge a difference. You did a video of everything. Bravo to you. I totally learned so many things that I never knew. You rock. Too bad you don’t seem to ever teach near Detroit (pretty much nobody does) which makes coming to a live class would be difficult. But I swear I am going to try to figure out a way. As always thanks for your time and information!

    Reply
  • Honestly Julie, you are amazing. (I have to tell you this. when I wrote that first sentence my wordy replace thingy changed “amazing” to “amazon”! How unflattering a way to start a blog comment. Good thing I was paying attention here at 2:32 in the morning!) As usual, I digress… Going back — You truly are amazing. (it tried to do it again!) People change blogs all the time and don’t explain it nor in most cases even acknowledge a difference. You did a video of everything. Bravo to you. I totally learned so many things that I never knew. You rock. Too bad you don’t seem to ever teach near Detroit (pretty much nobody does) which makes coming to a live class would be difficult. But I swear I am going to try to figure out a way. As always thanks for your time and information!

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  • I like the fresh look and thanks for the time and energy you put into your blog Julie!

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  • I like the fresh look and thanks for the time and energy you put into your blog Julie!

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  • I like the fresh look and thanks for the time and energy you put into your blog Julie!

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  • I like the fresh look and thanks for the time and energy you put into your blog Julie!

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  • I like the fresh look and thanks for the time and energy you put into your blog Julie!

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  • I’m trying to clean up my Google homepage. Currently I have lots of links, such as a link to your blog. But I also go on FB a lot, and see a lot of duplication. I’m removing things from my Google homepage that I can find on FB. So my question is, will you continue to have a link on FB every time you post on your blog? I don’t want to miss a thing on your blog, but I’d like to have one or the other, not both – FB or Google. If you will always have a link from FB, I’d just as soon find you there.

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  • I’m trying to clean up my Google homepage. Currently I have lots of links, such as a link to your blog. But I also go on FB a lot, and see a lot of duplication. I’m removing things from my Google homepage that I can find on FB. So my question is, will you continue to have a link on FB every time you post on your blog? I don’t want to miss a thing on your blog, but I’d like to have one or the other, not both – FB or Google. If you will always have a link from FB, I’d just as soon find you there.

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  • I’m trying to clean up my Google homepage. Currently I have lots of links, such as a link to your blog. But I also go on FB a lot, and see a lot of duplication. I’m removing things from my Google homepage that I can find on FB. So my question is, will you continue to have a link on FB every time you post on your blog? I don’t want to miss a thing on your blog, but I’d like to have one or the other, not both – FB or Google. If you will always have a link from FB, I’d just as soon find you there.

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  • I’m trying to clean up my Google homepage. Currently I have lots of links, such as a link to your blog. But I also go on FB a lot, and see a lot of duplication. I’m removing things from my Google homepage that I can find on FB. So my question is, will you continue to have a link on FB every time you post on your blog? I don’t want to miss a thing on your blog, but I’d like to have one or the other, not both – FB or Google. If you will always have a link from FB, I’d just as soon find you there.

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  • I’m trying to clean up my Google homepage. Currently I have lots of links, such as a link to your blog. But I also go on FB a lot, and see a lot of duplication. I’m removing things from my Google homepage that I can find on FB. So my question is, will you continue to have a link on FB every time you post on your blog? I don’t want to miss a thing on your blog, but I’d like to have one or the other, not both – FB or Google. If you will always have a link from FB, I’d just as soon find you there.

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  • Love the look…thanx for the tour. 🙂

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  • Love the look…thanx for the tour. 🙂

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  • Love the look…thanx for the tour. 🙂

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  • Love the look…thanx for the tour. 🙂

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  • Love the look…thanx for the tour. 🙂

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  • The blog tour was really a surprise! I’m glad I watched since I learned so much….thanks for taking the time to do this and your blog is the only one I actually read everyday. Nice job.

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  • The blog tour was really a surprise! I’m glad I watched since I learned so much….thanks for taking the time to do this and your blog is the only one I actually read everyday. Nice job.

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  • The blog tour was really a surprise! I’m glad I watched since I learned so much….thanks for taking the time to do this and your blog is the only one I actually read everyday. Nice job.

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  • The blog tour was really a surprise! I’m glad I watched since I learned so much….thanks for taking the time to do this and your blog is the only one I actually read everyday. Nice job.

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  • The blog tour was really a surprise! I’m glad I watched since I learned so much….thanks for taking the time to do this and your blog is the only one I actually read everyday. Nice job.

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  • What an informative review!!! I loved it. I wish others who blog would do the same. I read your blog every day and now I know how to access all the information I want. Not being a tecki-type it was phenomenal.

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  • What an informative review!!! I loved it. I wish others who blog would do the same. I read your blog every day and now I know how to access all the information I want. Not being a tecki-type it was phenomenal.

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  • What an informative review!!! I loved it. I wish others who blog would do the same. I read your blog every day and now I know how to access all the information I want. Not being a tecki-type it was phenomenal.

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  • What an informative review!!! I loved it. I wish others who blog would do the same. I read your blog every day and now I know how to access all the information I want. Not being a tecki-type it was phenomenal.

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  • What an informative review!!! I loved it. I wish others who blog would do the same. I read your blog every day and now I know how to access all the information I want. Not being a tecki-type it was phenomenal.

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  • As always you provide so much information that is useful to me that isn’t limited just to you – thanks so much for taking the time to give us the vimeo tour. Never miss a day without visiting to see what you are up to!

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  • As always you provide so much information that is useful to me that isn’t limited just to you – thanks so much for taking the time to give us the vimeo tour. Never miss a day without visiting to see what you are up to!

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  • As always you provide so much information that is useful to me that isn’t limited just to you – thanks so much for taking the time to give us the vimeo tour. Never miss a day without visiting to see what you are up to!

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  • As always you provide so much information that is useful to me that isn’t limited just to you – thanks so much for taking the time to give us the vimeo tour. Never miss a day without visiting to see what you are up to!

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  • As always you provide so much information that is useful to me that isn’t limited just to you – thanks so much for taking the time to give us the vimeo tour. Never miss a day without visiting to see what you are up to!

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  • Love the changes…much more tidy and organized:)

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  • Love the changes…much more tidy and organized:)

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  • Love the changes…much more tidy and organized:)

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  • Love the changes…much more tidy and organized:)

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  • Love the changes…much more tidy and organized:)

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  • Even funner looking than before. Great job!

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  • Even funner looking than before. Great job!

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  • Even funner looking than before. Great job!

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  • Even funner looking than before. Great job!

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  • Even funner looking than before. Great job!

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  • Thank you for the awesome blog tour–it’s so obvious that you really care about your readers. I get an e-mail every time you post and I love that because I don’t want to miss a post. You always have something of interest to share and I just wanted to say your efforts are appreciated!!

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  • Thank you for the awesome blog tour–it’s so obvious that you really care about your readers. I get an e-mail every time you post and I love that because I don’t want to miss a post. You always have something of interest to share and I just wanted to say your efforts are appreciated!!

    Reply
  • Thank you for the awesome blog tour–it’s so obvious that you really care about your readers. I get an e-mail every time you post and I love that because I don’t want to miss a post. You always have something of interest to share and I just wanted to say your efforts are appreciated!!

    Reply
  • Thank you for the awesome blog tour–it’s so obvious that you really care about your readers. I get an e-mail every time you post and I love that because I don’t want to miss a post. You always have something of interest to share and I just wanted to say your efforts are appreciated!!

    Reply
  • Thank you for the awesome blog tour–it’s so obvious that you really care about your readers. I get an e-mail every time you post and I love that because I don’t want to miss a post. You always have something of interest to share and I just wanted to say your efforts are appreciated!!

    Reply
  • Not having a blog, I can only imagine the time you have invested in re-doing everything. I watched the video and learned a couple new tricks to find things. Thank you so much for taking the time to “film” the tour!!
    Off to explore places I didn’t know existed.

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  • Not having a blog, I can only imagine the time you have invested in re-doing everything. I watched the video and learned a couple new tricks to find things. Thank you so much for taking the time to “film” the tour!!
    Off to explore places I didn’t know existed.

    Reply
  • Not having a blog, I can only imagine the time you have invested in re-doing everything. I watched the video and learned a couple new tricks to find things. Thank you so much for taking the time to “film” the tour!!
    Off to explore places I didn’t know existed.

    Reply
  • Not having a blog, I can only imagine the time you have invested in re-doing everything. I watched the video and learned a couple new tricks to find things. Thank you so much for taking the time to “film” the tour!!
    Off to explore places I didn’t know existed.

    Reply
  • Not having a blog, I can only imagine the time you have invested in re-doing everything. I watched the video and learned a couple new tricks to find things. Thank you so much for taking the time to “film” the tour!!
    Off to explore places I didn’t know existed.

    Reply
  • Do you ever rest? I love that you’re always looking for new creative outlets. Your blog is awesome.

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  • Do you ever rest? I love that you’re always looking for new creative outlets. Your blog is awesome.

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  • Do you ever rest? I love that you’re always looking for new creative outlets. Your blog is awesome.

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  • Do you ever rest? I love that you’re always looking for new creative outlets. Your blog is awesome.

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  • Do you ever rest? I love that you’re always looking for new creative outlets. Your blog is awesome.

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  • That seems like a great idea. I always love the idea of spring cleaning though. There’s nothing like it.

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  • That seems like a great idea. I always love the idea of spring cleaning though. There’s nothing like it.

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  • That seems like a great idea. I always love the idea of spring cleaning though. There’s nothing like it.

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  • That seems like a great idea. I always love the idea of spring cleaning though. There’s nothing like it.

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  • That seems like a great idea. I always love the idea of spring cleaning though. There’s nothing like it.

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