Events, Messages to readers

New Featured will be posted tomorrow! Meet and Greet still ON! ;-)

Sorry everyone, that are expecting my pick for the “FEATURED” of the week!

I am going to be quite busy today and since, I like to write all my posts at the moment I publish them,  I will not have time today. Yes… I don’t schedule my posts, rarely will happen! I just like to write what I feel at that right moment I publish them, this is my way to be creative also when I write!  😉

I will be posting the new Featured Sunday  tomorrow for me! 

So for today the Meet and Greet still ON!
Keep leaving your links to your Blog, and reblog my yesterday post it will help new Bloggers to know about this event! You guys did GREAT with the reblog yesterday! I truly appreciate it with all my heart!
You’re amazing!!!
Thank you!

So it is not late the event still going on just make sure to check back tomorrow!

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I wish you all a wonderful weekend be happy and enjoy your life!
-CR

Art, Illustration, Life, Messages to readers, Poems

When souls connect…

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Today I would love to share with you a beautiful post from my lovely Blogger friend Allison at glorybegin.com

Yesterday she was celebrating her Blog Anniversary with this post she wrote:

{Podcast} The Single Most Killer Creative Skill I Mastered by Blogging

It is amazing how we all can connect our creative spirits and souls and be inspired from one another through Blogging! During my last 6 months, the journeys of my Blog YesterdayAfter.com I came across amazing people who inspire and enrich my soul on a daily basis. I got to connect with amazing creative souls around the worls that I would never had chance if wasn’t for my Blog. We all can relate with this beautiful Cosmic connection of our souls. Allison inspired me yesterday with her post, this is why I love Blogging,  while I was leaving her a comment, words just came to me at the point to create a Poem…her reaction touched my heart…because my words went straight to her heart and soul and this is all about when we are sharing Love we encourage, inspire, opens hearts, give happiness…

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My comment to Allison post:
This is so beautiful Allison ❤ Happy Anniversary! I am truly happy to be part of your journeys as you are part of mine, I love what you are doing and I truly love to hear your voice with your podcast, it is one of my dear places where I go when I need to hear enrichment for my soul, and a place where I can relax closing my eyes, listening to your beautiful words. I am agree with everything you just said in this post. I am an artist and creative soul which I express my creativity in many ways, willingly to reach the heart and souls deeply, with my creations of every kind and my greatest gift is when someone tells me, that got inspired by my art and me. I started my Blog 6 months ago I learned a lot too, and I love it so much to interact with other great souls around the world. I was afraid at first, I felt like I was just a drop in the ocean…and I would never be seen, but then one day I did my jump into the water and started to swim with passion giving out everything, my words, my art, my soul and letting go free. I had beautiful response and amazing people came to my way which I connect every day, including you!
After I listened to your Podcast today, I was inspired to write something for you in celebration.
This is for you with love and light:

Dear Allison
ray of beautiful light expanding through the universe,
filled with love and joy.
Expressing your inner soul to us
through your precious words,
how glowing is a creative way to spread love and light.
Opening your wings and letting go
your amazing truth of love flowing in the air,
and become one with our cosmos.
We all are one and truth with our creativity to be
spread from our hearts, like seeds in the wind
to reach unexpected and amazing places,
let go your seeds free…let go…let go…

Love
Carolina

Allison response:
Ohhh Carolina!!!!
Your INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING comment just came through!! When I saw it earlier it was just the first line!
Oh My God. Babe – beautiful soul sister, I am in awe of YOU. Your words, your spirit, your brilliant radiating energy – you humble me. I literally have tears in my eyes reading this (I read it like five times, dear friend.
I have written your beautiful poem in my personal journal where I keep all things that speak to me when I need to hear voices of the angels. You are an ANGEL to me, I hope you know this.
Please let me know that you saw my reply here because your comment will stay with me always, always. I’m sorry I didn’t see the whole thing until now – I don’t know what happened.
I could never thank you enough for being YOU! Keep shining and spreading your gorgeous art, okay? Don’t you ever stop. The word needs the light you bring, my love.
Biggest hugs and so much, so much love, always,

Allison XOXO
I wanted to share this, to encourage and inspire others!

-CR

Art, Digital Art, Digital Unique Portraits, Life, Messages to readers, Nature, Photography

Shop – Custom Digital Art Portraits

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“WHEN NATURE MEETS HUMANS”
Shop – Custom Digital Portraits

Hello everyone since I received  emails inquiring about my Custom Portraits, asking,  where and how to order them. I decided to add a new page to my drop down menu having some information for whom is interested to purchase and Custom Order a Digital Art Portrait.
The new page on the navigation bar menu is under  >My Art Ways  >Digital Art > Digital Portraits >
New Page is > Shop Custom Digital Portraits

I like to thank everyone that expressed interst in my Art and inquired about it also to all of you for your wonderful comments and for sharing Thank You!!!

-CR

Events, Featured, Messages to readers

Meet and Greet…Saturday a New Featured!!!

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Hello everyone, Friday night is here and it’s time for another beautiful
Meet and Greet Session!

I truly appreciate you amazing followers participating to my weekly
“Saturday FEATURED Event”
new Blogs are very welcome to leave their links and comments here!!!

Like every Saturday I will choose a Blog to Feature, Introduce and Expose here for one week on my side bar

in a Widget named: You Are FEATURED! Great Blogs!

I am very happy and I thank all of you for helping me with your participation,
to make this a very successful weekly event.
I love to share my space and success to highlight Blogs and Bloggers that I admire.
Introducing and helping new ones to expand their horizons and motivations.

Please if you want this chance to Introduce your Blog and Meet other amazing Bloggers, please leave a comment here or a link to one of your post  🙂

This Saturday  we see who would be Featured!

-CR

Events, Featured, Messages to readers, Music

And Today FEATURED is……

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THE V-PUB

And today FEATURED is…. The V-Pub it would be on my sidebar widget for this week!

I love to meet and greet new Artists sharing their work of art and their beautiful creations!

It is getting very difficult every week to choose just one of you but I am still going on!
When I made my first Feature post I was thinking to do this only once a month, but from that first time I did this every week I love that we all have this weekly connection!

This is the week # 11

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Once again I thank all of you for the participation to this weekly  “Meet and Greet” session!!!
During those weeks I have been able to discover many new awesome and amazing Blogs!

How you can be Featured here?
Stay Connected! Follow here and on my other social media be active!
You never know…maybe next week I will choose YOU!

Today I am very pleased to introduce  Rob and his great and fun Blog The V-Pub we follow each other Blogs from quite awhile now, he is a wonderful friend and presence in the WP Community from quite long time.
I love Music and Rob is a Musician he plays and creates beautiful Music which you can hear some sample in his The Juke Box Page

Please visit The V-Pub for more fun…

Surely many of you already know Rob and his Blog, but if you don’t,
then please stop by there and enjoy music and fun readings!

Have a wonderful weekend you all!

-CR

Events, Messages to readers, Milestones

Happy Anniversary! 13 years in USA and Anniversary for my Blog! ;-)

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Yesterday August 22 was my 13 years Anniversary here in USA I moved from Italy in 2002
and lived in California since then, I just wanted to share this with my WP friends also because yesterday was my Anniversary on WordPress a nice coincidence!

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Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com!
You registered on WordPress.com 3 years ago!
Thanks for flying with us.
Keep up the good blogging!

I had my Blog active on WordPress for about more than 2 years without posting anything!
I wanted to reserve my domain name yesterdayafter.com since I love it a lot!
At the same time I was working on launching my Jewelry Designs Collections expanding my horizons.
I was only working on the graphics and designs to customize the Theme layout of this Blog reflecting my own creativity.  I wanted to launch it as soon I was ready, but no any word was ever posted also some life events slowed the process. Then one day almost 5 months ago it was the end of March, I decided to jump in and made a very small first post announcing the opening of my Etsy Shop.
I felt like I was a drop into the ocean, almost impossible to be seen in between the millions of other Blogs.
Then people started to discover my presence I was posting once in a while my Jewelry and Artworks and I got very nice feedback! As Artist I express my Art in different ways, my posts are not always about the same subject. I work with different media and my followers showed appreciation and love for my talents.
Also I decided to go around leaving comments, and not just stay here reading. I let people know how much I loved their work and they responded to me beautifully with kindred words and they started to follow my Blog recognizing me with Awards. I felt very honored for such a beautiful recognition.

Starlight Blogger Award 05/30/2015In May I also created my own Award to pass on  “The Starlight Blogger Award”  I launched this Award to highlight and Promote Inspiring Bloggers and I am so happy that the Award is going around the world a lot! Bloggers link to me and I have chance to discover new intersting Blogs.

Ten weeks ago I decided that I wanted to do something to give back to this beautiful Community starting my Meet and Greet Event  where every week I choose to Feature one Blogger and Blog that I admire and I am Inspired from, introducing  them to inspire others.

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I felt very welcome here during those months I discovered amazing Blogs and Bloggers that are beautiful friends!
I am stunned and amazed about the fast growth it’s fascinating!
…..THANK YOU to ALL…..
each one of you made this happen with me!

I am very happy because our strength together it’s very powerful and encouraging to keep going for all of us…
Stay connected and support each other good things will come!

-CR

Events, Featured, Messages to readers

Meet and Greet…Who would be Featured Tomorrow????

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Hello everyone,
A new Meet and Greet Session here!

Many of you my great and amazing followers already know and are participating to my weekly
“Saturday Featured Session”
It is already many weeks that on Saturdays after a Meet and Greet session, I choose a Blog and Blogger to Feature, Introduce and expose here on YesterdayAfter for one week on my side bar

in a Widget named: You Are FEATURED! Great Blogs!

I am very thankful to all of you for the participation to make this a very successful weekly event.
I love to share my space and success to highlight Blogs that I admire.
I love to give space,  introducing and helping new ones to expand their horizons and motivations.

Please if you want this chance leave a comment here or a link to one of your post  🙂

Saturday tomorrow for me….we will see who is next! Stay connected… 😉

CR

Art, Events, Featured, Messages to readers

And Featured is…

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Amaranthine by Joleene Naylor

And today FEATURED is…. Joleene Naylor she would be on my sidebar widget for this week!

I always love to meet and greet new Artists sharing their work of art and their beautiful words!

It is getting very difficult every week to choose just one of you!
When I made my first Feature post I was thinking to do this only once a month, but from that first time I did this every week!

This is the week # 8
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(Please Joleene grab this Badge and post it somewhere on your Blog! 😉

Here once again thank you for the participation to this “Meet and Greet” session!!!
During this weeks I have been able to discover many new awesome Blogs!

How you can be Featured here?
Stay Connected! Follow here and on my other social media be active!
You never know…maybe next week I choose YOU!

Today I am very pleased to introduce  Joleene Naylor we follow each other Blogs from quite awhile, she is a wonderful presence in the Blogsphere from long time. Joleene is a writer and illustrator of her books a paranormal fantasy series Amaranthine

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Clash of Legends, the seventh and the latest book in the Amaranthine series
visit her websites for more…

Surely many of you already know her Blog, but if you don’t, then please stop by there!

Have a wonderful weekend you all!

-CR

Events, Featured, Messages to readers, Poems

And the New FEATURED is…

Purpleanais
Purpleanais

arwenaragornstar a French girl’s musings……

And today FEATURED is.…. Purpleanais she would be on my sidebar for the week!

 

I always love to meet and greet new Artists sharing their work of art and their beautiful words!

It is getting very difficult every week to choose just one of you!
When I made my first Feature post I was thinking to do this only once a month, but I did this every week!

This is the week # 6

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I already featured 6 Amazing Blogs and Bloggers:

Souldiergirl
Erika Kind 
Joanne McCullough
Mark Lanesbury
Celona

 Please grab this and post it somewhere on your Blog! 😉

Here we are after a great participation to this “Meet and Greet” session!!!
Thank you so much for posting your links here, I really appreciated your presence so much!
I have been able to discover many new awesome Blogs!
I am looking forward on getting to know all of them better.

Stay Connected! Follow here and on my social media be active!
You never know…I might choose YOU!

Now everyone Purpleanais it is a wonderful presence in the Blog world,
I love her great and deep Poetry she can surprise you with her words every time.
She is a great and friendly presence on WP!
I am sure that most of you already know her Blog, but if you don’t, then go and stop by there!

Have a wonderful weekend you all! ❤ ❤ ❤

-CR

Events, Messages to readers, Milestones

Milestone 200

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Congratulations on getting 200 total follows on YesterdayAfter!
Your current tally is 202.

 

Thank you so much to all of you that decided to follow my Blog!

I had my Blog active for about 2 years I sign up on WP in 2013 without post anything!
I was only working on the graphics and designs to fully customize it and no words was ever posted.
The purpose was to create more of a website dedicate to promote my Art and Jewelry since this is my full-time daily job.
Then one day at the end of March I decided to jump in.
I felt like I was a drop in the ocean almost impossible to be seen there were many beautiful blogs.
On June 21 2015 I hit the 100 Followers Milestone…It was an amazing accomplishment!
I felt so welcome here and loved and it is so great,  that we can share and encourage each other!
Yesterday the 200 Milestone is arrived!
I am stunned and amazed about the fast growth it’s fascinating!

…..THANK YOU to ALL…..I am very grateful and thankful for your presence and support….
each one of you made this happen with me!

I am very happy our strength together it’s very encouraging to keep going…

 

Have a wonderful Saturday!

Later on a new FEATURED is on the way! 😉

-CR