A New Title and an Explanation

Hi!

As you can see, I have changed the name of this blog.  I made the change primarily for two reasons:

  1. I did not want to create any confusion between the very unknown me and the very well-known Crafty Chica, Kathy Cano-Murillo.  Not that anyone would confuse us or our blogs, but I wanted to avoid whatever confusion could have resulted, you know, maybe in 10 years or something.
  2. This blog is not about me or my greeting cards and fumbling attempts at art journal pages.  The purpose of this blog is less about how-to and look-at-this and more about directing you (all 3 of you as the case may be at this moment) to interesting stuff in the world of paper arts. That interesting stuff could include books (new and old), blogs, new products, classes, etc.  To that end, my plan is to update this blog regularly and add a Twitter feed and other social media tools.  There may be some ads coming, too, but I hope to keep those to a minimum. 
Keep reading.  I hope you will like the new Paper Arts Bulletin, formerly Crafty Hoosier, blog.

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