Hi Everyone-
In celebration of the launch of Children Inspire Design, I am giving away a “Recycled Earth” original! This piece is 30″x40″ and worth $1,000! To enter the giveaway, simply post a comment about why you love the art and what you would do with it if you won. I will be picking the winner at random on December 7th. Good luck!!
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November 19, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Aunt Jean
Becky,
Your are so awesome, I love your work.
It’s hard to decide what to get.
Aunt Jean
November 19, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Leslie
OH!! I love the recycled earth!!!! I am a cartographer (mapmaker!) by trade, and love anything and everything map related. If the Recycled Earth canvas was mine, I’d hang it in my otherwise boring office to inspire me daily!!! It’s also perfect because I’m the resident Green Queen, so it would have double significance to me! 🙂
November 19, 2009 at 7:38 pm
april
LOVE it! What an absolutely incredible giveaway. I bought the wall number cards for our nursery and they look so cute. This would just go perfectly in the nursery!! April
November 19, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Jess
I love that it’s recycled! I would love to put it up in our family room so that it will inspire us each day to think outside of our little bubble.
November 20, 2009 at 2:11 am
Julia
Who doesn’t love free art, especially from someone so talented. It is so original, made from found objects which I LOVE and to me the color combinations are really perfect. I have someone special in mind that I would love to give it to.
November 20, 2009 at 4:11 am
Christina
I also have your number cards and the alphabet poster for our nursery! I LOVE your new map and am keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks for the update!
November 25, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Sundeep
Ooh so fantastic!
November 25, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Jami
I absolutely LOVE your creative artwork. We have several pieces in our our home. Our son’s nursery has several pieces and I would love to add this above his crib. We could have conversations about the world and I know he would love all the colors to look at. I have recommended your art to several friends and family members for the beauty and as well the fact that you use environmentally friendly product. Keeping my fingers crossed
November 25, 2009 at 8:08 pm
susan
i love this recycled earth!!! my family always teases me about being “green” so i would love to hang this in my office for them to admire. i have ordered several of your prints for my friends who were having babies…i love your work. if i won, this would be my chance to have a piece for myself. thanks for offering this beautiful piece to someone lucky! i hope it’s me…
November 26, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Lori Z.
This is so wonderfully colorful! I love maps that don’t make the US front and center! This would be a fantastic pick me up for our rather dull tan walls…
November 27, 2009 at 3:15 am
Sarah
I love your talent- thank you for sharing it with us!! As for the piece, it would make a lovely home in my little boys room.
November 27, 2009 at 3:19 am
Tara
How beautiful! We are trying to put a nursery together (the baby’s only 8 months old, that’s not too late, right?), and I would love earth-themed art to remind our daughter to think big and see the entire planet as her home….
November 27, 2009 at 2:59 pm
merium
Oh, this is a fabulous giveaway! I would place this on the feature wall in my dining room~to inspire dinnertime conversations!
November 28, 2009 at 4:39 am
Staci A
Absolutely beautiful! I love the subtle colors and tone of it! I would love to hang something like this in my son’s room. He is in love with anything to do with the Earth, globes and maps!
November 28, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Kristen
I was introduced to your art by Molly of My Favorite Things. I love the colors on this piece. I would put it on the red wall in my kitchen behind the dining table…or in my boys’ room. I think they’d like it as they learn about the different countries, and the world around them.
Thanks for the chance to win it!
November 28, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Mrs. M
My nursery is an around the world theme and this piece would top it off while showing the need to take care of mother earth!
November 29, 2009 at 2:14 am
LisaB
Lovely! I work in the Sustainability Group at my city and this would be fantastic and inspiring to have in our office, to remind us what it is we’re working to save.
November 29, 2009 at 5:38 am
nan lara
i think it is beautiful…i think i would put it in my 2 yr olds room…so that we could hopefully start a discussion about what it is…i love it!
November 29, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Emily
What a neat painting. I’m looking for a good present for my sister’s boyfriend, but this is so awesome, I might have to keep it for myself and hang it near my computer desk!
November 29, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Maria
Your map would be a perfect addition to my granddaughter’s nursery. It’s beautiful! I love the mixed media look.
December 2, 2009 at 7:55 am
birdsandsquirrels
I love this recycled earth piece! I found your website through etsy, looking for simple, beautiful collage art with birds to use for our baby’s nursery. After years of infertility and miscarriages we are finally expecting a baby on Christmas day. I’ve been so paranoid about potentially losing this baby that I haven’t really allowed myself to prepare. Now that I’m 36 weeks, I’m realizing that wow, we likely really will have a baby soon, and I am frantically trying to get a nursery together. I love, love, love this earth (and maps in general), and it would be amazing to be able to put it in our baby’s room!
December 2, 2009 at 5:23 pm
leslie
Oh, these are beautiful! I would love to have the print for my new grandson’s room! Thank you for offering this giveaway!
December 2, 2009 at 5:26 pm
beth
What a beautiful world! This would be so nice in my twin daughters’ nursery.
December 2, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Jamie
I love it. I love the multiple messages it conveys. Beauty, global conscience, global perspective… all things to teach my kids.
December 2, 2009 at 5:37 pm
EB
It is all so beautiful! Thanks!
December 3, 2009 at 4:04 am
EB
I love that it is abstract-y and yet has so many lessons in it. It would be a great piece to teach with and also look really cool on a wall in a library or office or bedroom or family room.
December 2, 2009 at 5:43 pm
jayme
I love this piece. Not only is it gorgeous, but the fact that it is centered on Africa carries special meaning for my family as our children were born in Ethiopia. They’re three now and we’re doing our best to raise them to be good little citizens of the world. This fantastic piece of art would tie their room together beautifully!
December 2, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Dana
I love it. This would be the perfect addition to the blank wall in our mudroom… I’ve been looking for a long time for something to put there that would just make me happy every time I passed by. This would make me very happy!
December 2, 2009 at 5:52 pm
mayhemkm
I think this is amazing! What a beautiful idea. If I were to win, I’d hang it up in my new apartment to inspire me to save my pennies so I can travel more!
December 2, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Joan Bosson-Heenan
I love this map. We just had a daughter and she and my son will have to share a room for the next few years. This would be perfect for their room, it combines my love of art (art therapy major in college), our dedication to green living and our love of world travel.
Your work is beautiful and inspiring. My children certainly inspire my art.
December 2, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Sunny
What a beautiful picture of the world. We are having a baby in March so would love to hang it up for her.
December 2, 2009 at 6:13 pm
courtney
That is truly beautiful. I just moved to a new apartment (and new state!), and my walls are completely bare. This would make my new place feel so much more like a home.
December 2, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Anne Bryan
I love this piece – a recycled map is the best.
December 2, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Sarah
I.LOVE.THIS, and it resonates perfectly with the message we are teaching our two young daughters, to show compassion to the Earth and all who inhabit it. It is up to us to protect this planet, our home, the beautiful silent Earth that relies on us to speak on her behalf. Caring for the earth a key element of our family lives and this beautiful artwork conveys that. I would put this in our foyer to welcome us home every day!
December 2, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Nancy
I love art because it is so personalize and each piece can mean something different for every person that looks at it. For me, this is a great representation of what we need to be focusing on. Our family is in the process of adopting a child from Ethiopia and this would make a great centerpiece in our child’s nursery.
December 2, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Shannon
I came here from Design Mom. What a generous giveaway! Such a nice picture. I think it would go on my boy’s wall to replace the generic map already up!
December 2, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Robin (noteverstill)
That piece is beautiful! I’d love to hang it on the big wall of our basement playroom. Our girls are always asking geography questions – what an inspiration that piece would be to them!
December 2, 2009 at 6:36 pm
holly
I am finally moving my youngest out of our room and “out into the world” as they say – okay, it’s the room next store, but still . . . I love this work of art and all the hope and gratitude it inspires.
December 2, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Aylin
I love your artwork… “recycled ” is the magic word for me 🙂 This artwork would look lovely in the nursery room..
December 2, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Allison
I love maps of all kinds. This one is so beautiful.
December 2, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Sheri
This is amazing! My son is moving into a new room in January, and I’d love to build it around this piece of art. What a fantastic way to teach a little guy about the world.
December 2, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Diane G
I love this art! We are big recyclers/reusers at our home, even our 3-year-old knows what to recycle. We have a big (currently empty) kitchen wall that this art would be perfect for! Thanks for the opportunity!
December 2, 2009 at 7:04 pm
MK Countryman
My kids school is to in to recycle and taking care of the earth. They have taken it as their own. The latest is that we are not having plastic water bottles in our house. They point to our globe and say, remember the earth. They would love this! Thanks. Love your site.
December 2, 2009 at 7:27 pm
abigail Scarborough
I would put it up in a second in our homeschooling loft!
December 2, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Julianne
This is amazing. What a beautiful piece! I love the idea of a recycled earth!
December 2, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Mama Em
I’m looking forward to raising my now two week old daughter to be a conscious consumer, and I’m trying to set a good example. So far, everything in her nursery has a story. This would be a beautiful addition.
December 2, 2009 at 7:46 pm
jo
i love art because it reminds me of one of the first lessons my mom taught me. she would come to my elementary and teach my class about art and how important it was. her passion for art still teaches me, and now her grandkids, to this day.
i would absolutely hang this in my baby son’s room so he could be transported to different worlds as he looks at such a wonderful piece of art!
December 2, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Suzanna
Absolutely beautiful, I love it!
December 2, 2009 at 7:57 pm
alisonkhunt
I commented on the original post about how much I love this piece! It is absolutely incredible!
Alison
December 2, 2009 at 7:58 pm
ikkinlala
I love the colours, and I love that it’s recycled. I’m not sure whether I’d hang it somewhere in our house or offer it to a local school or library.
December 2, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Heather Harnly
Beautiful! My daughter is almost ready for her new big girl room, so I’m thinking about ways to decorate. This would be perfect!
December 2, 2009 at 8:23 pm
liso.
i think i’m entering my comments all over the wrong places!
but i do just adore this – i’m a geographer by education and am absolutely giddy about how much i love this…
we’d definitely hang it front and center in our living room. yep, i love it that much.
December 2, 2009 at 8:33 pm
~j.
This piece would go on a yellow wall in my kids’ playroom. Recycling is a very important part of what we do as a family, my kids know this and are involved with it. Hooray!
December 2, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Sarah
I love the art because it’s bright and cheery!! I also especially love map art–it inspires me to want to travel more :). If I won, I would either put it in our office or in the nursery–I definitely don’t think I could give it away as a gift, since I love this piece so much!
December 2, 2009 at 9:25 pm
susank
What beautiful artwork. I’d be honored to own a piece.
December 2, 2009 at 9:26 pm
YDay
I LOVE this! It reminds me of the art I used to make that I’m trying to find time to start doing again. Thanks for inspiring me.
December 2, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Ashley Seymour
Love this work. I is so unique and beautiful!
December 2, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Alie Jones
This is so beautiful! I’d love to surround my kids with art, and this would be the perfect way to do so.
December 2, 2009 at 9:51 pm
kirby
Whoops…I commented on the wrong post!
I ADORE this!! I love that it is recycled and would put it on the wall in my schoolroom!
December 2, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Stephanie
I am in love with maps and globes and the earth. As a child, I felt sad that I might never see every spot on the earth. I’m doing my best to make sure that I see as many as possible, and when I am home I find pictures and maps of our world comforting and awe-inspiring. This is a beautiful picture and I would hang it right over my fireplace.
December 2, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Sara Demko
This is so beautiful. I work in international education, and I would love to have this for my office. I also love your other prints and am trying to decide what to get for my daughter’s room. Keeping my fingers crossed…
December 2, 2009 at 10:48 pm
ilpearla
i do i do.
December 2, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Jennifer
What an amazing piece! My husband would love it. I don’t know if he would be brave enough to use it at his school or if it would stay at our house. What a generous giveaway.
December 3, 2009 at 12:56 am
richelle
love this work of art! would look absolutely beautiful in my daughter’s bedroom. she is in second grade and getting a grasp of just how large our world is…as well as learning the history of ancient cultures. she would just adore this on her wall.
December 3, 2009 at 1:18 am
Kristen M.
One of my favorite quotes by Emerson is “Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.” That pretty much sums up how I feel about art.
December 3, 2009 at 1:21 am
Kristen M.
Oops, forgot to say what I would do with this piece if I won. I would certainly display it in my home to inspire my children.
December 3, 2009 at 3:55 am
Barb @ getupandplay
Oh, I’ve been a fan for such a long time! What a wonderful and generous giveaway!!
December 3, 2009 at 3:59 am
Katie
Thank you for such a generous give-away.
I think all of the pieces are unique and inspiring (azul zinnia was made for my office I’m pretty sure) – but I love this earth piece in particular because the U.S. isn’t front-and-center as you often see, but rather Africa… not only can my girls be inspired to create beautiful art but they will be reminded that our home is not the center of the world.
This would look incredible in their art room, next to their own mini-masterpieces.
December 3, 2009 at 4:05 am
Amanda Daybyday
I think this is so pretty. The colors. The world. I would love a picture of the world in my house for my kids. Just lovely. It would go in my stairwell which is completely bare at the moment
December 3, 2009 at 4:13 am
Heather
I love this piece of art and if I am generous I will hang it at my school. (Although I may be greedy and keep it for myself (guilty look)!)
December 3, 2009 at 4:19 am
colleentara1
(oops! I commented on the next post by mistake)
I teach environmental science and would love to hang this at school to inspire my students. They are so creative and I often do projects that incorporate art with science. I’m also a mama and when school’s out I would bring it home to hang in my toddler’s room.
Why I love this piece: first of all, I like how the center perspective is on Africa… The magazine mosaic is truly ‘children inspired’ and gives me that ‘warm and fuzzy’ feeling. I’d love to see it in person. The colors make me smile.
December 3, 2009 at 4:22 am
Adira Benklifa
Congratulations! I can only hope that one day my art is able to transcend its material as yours does. I would hang this in the group art room and LOVE the fact the United States is NOT in the middle of the world. Looking at Africia will help us remember that the borders we need to climb are the ones in our mind that separate us rather than unite us.
Thank you!!
December 3, 2009 at 4:50 am
Lauren
I love this poster because of the centrality of Africa. Since I grew up there but now live in Australia and have best friends in the U.S., this poster unites us all in a beautiful way. I want to pass on my global worldview to my four daughters, and this poster can help them visualise distance while retaining a sense of unity.
December 3, 2009 at 4:54 am
MB
I have traveled all over the earth and would love for my daughter to have the art to point out and talk about places I’ve been and to teach her about different countries and continents!
December 3, 2009 at 5:04 am
shira
I am deeply drawn to pictures of the earth. I love the perspective. I once had a lovely handblown glass that resembled the earth, but sadly, it broke. Hand created gives it even a deeper perspective.
My three and a half year old daughter talks about space and the planets and pretends to bring us moon rocks–she recognizes the earth. She recently drew a picture and said, “Mama, I drew a map of Africa!” And it does indeed look like Africa. I love watching and listening to her exploration.
Your exquisite creation would fulfill us both! I would be so honored.
And if I am not the “winner”–my, I would love a print of the original.
Many thanks for the opportunity.
December 3, 2009 at 8:05 am
Erin
I love this! I would hang it beside our dining table, to inspire my five little children as we enjoy our family meals together. So awesome and awe-inspiring!
December 3, 2009 at 2:09 pm
lisa
Oh My! I work with artists on a daily basis at a provincial art gallery-and this just incredible. I don’t know what it is but I am always drawn to anything that deals with the earth. This is so incredible. I have a 9 month old son who I would love to teach about the world through an art piece.
Lisa
December 3, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Jessica L.
Beautiful earth! I would love to have this for our playroom. We are very conscientious about recycling and picking up trash, etc. We also happen to be art lovers! My children (and I) would love this! Thanks!
December 3, 2009 at 2:20 pm
CindiS
jumped over from Design Mom. Love your new site. wow. what a mondo beyondo give-away. truly magnificent. I would hang The Recyled Earth in my school- in the computer lab where I teach and hold our Green Team recycling meetings. Just Incredible!
December 3, 2009 at 3:34 pm
guineveret
Stunning! I love that it captures both the beauty of this earth and a fabulous message. I also love that its focus is NOT the country where my family and I live, which for me enhances its message. If I win it will hang in our preschool story room!
December 3, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Faith
I love and collect maps and globes. This would be the ultimate piece of any collection. It is so beautiful and represents so many GOOD things in this world! Lovely!
December 3, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Katie
This is truly incredible. I would love for my children to enjoy admiring our planet earth. Growing up there was a map on the basement wall and I loved looking at it! Oh please let me win!
December 3, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Conor
I don’t have a globe or a map in my house…how else am I to teach my kids about our awesome planet! Besides, I just love beautiful things, and this is truly beautiful.
December 3, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Dwyer
Love it! Love it! Love it! I would be proud to hang this beautiful piece in my home.
December 3, 2009 at 6:25 pm
julie
Absolutely gorgeous and inspiring!
Thank you for caring:)
December 3, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Jennifer
Absolutely gorgeous! It thrills the geographer to think of having such a beautiful globe in my home!
December 3, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Allison
I love this beautiful and vibrant piece. I was a Global Studies major in college and have been looking for a large vintage map or an original artwork to display in my house. Although it would look good in my son’s room, I would put it in my living room.
I love that it is recycled. For me, it is not just a pretty picture. It is also a message about our beautiful earth. It is really inspiring.
December 3, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Carrie
I orinially commented on the wrong post. I think I’m in the right spot now. 🙂 This piece is so stunning. The colors make me smile. I’d hang it in my son’s room. He is seven and loves to study maps and globes. Great giveaway!
December 3, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Hillary
BEAUTIFUL!!! Oh how I love art! I love it because it’s interesting and wonderful and original!! I would hang it in my little boy’s room… it has a map/globe theme… so this is PERFECTION!! THANKS for the chance to win! 🙂 -Hillary
December 3, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Sarah B.
Wow! What a giveaway. I love the piece and it would look fantastic over our soon-to-be-finished remodeled mantle. My husband even put in recessed lighting to showcase an undetermined piece of art… how perfect.
December 3, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Cindy A.
I love this art because it’s a tribute to the lovely planet we call home. Yay Earth!
I would hang it in my living room surrounded by velvet ropes. 😉
December 3, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Julie G
It is a Beautiful Planet we inhabit. Your bold statement reminds us to care for it well. Thank you for creating such powerful art.
December 4, 2009 at 4:03 am
Maryann
My kids would love to have this in their room.
December 4, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Marcia Z
Our local children’s museum is preparing for a move to a larger, refurbished space in the spring. As exhibit coordinator, I’m definitely envisioning this in the art exhibit space–right above our “recycled art” creation area. Strikingly beautiful in it’s simplicity…love it!
December 6, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Jenilee H
This is such a beautiful piece of art. I love the contrasting colors, and how it describes our earth and not so typical based on the mixed media used. Fabulous. This would be hung in my sons room. Hes only 9 months now, but when he gets older it can help him learn and enjoy art (as i’m an artist myself).