Made By Humans
As is often the case with Arkansas winters, we just ended a few days of unseasonably warm temperatures with a cold and rainy day and the threat of snow (there were 10 inches reported on the state’s highest mountain, but nary a flake accumulated where I live). Still, it’s cold and gray and dreary today, […]
This challenge is not always about making something. It is about feeling more inspired and creative in your life in general. One way to do that is to seek out things that inspire you, whether that’s going somewhere pretty and reading a book, shopping at a store you’ve never been to before, or going to […]
Piggybacking on yesterday’s challenge about creating where you are, this becomes much easier if you always have a project with you, which can happen when you designate a travel project. Benefits of a Travel Project If you have something you can carry with you, you’re more likely to be creative in those gap moments like […]
I’m kind of astounded that I’ve made it 50 days into this project. I’m so glad I’ve done it, because it’s nice to work a little bit of creativity into every day, and to share simple ways that you can do it, too. The girl is not always ready to leave school when I come […]
I was going through a basket of stuff over the weekend, that was supposed to be a place to keep important things and ended up being a place where everything I didn’t want on my desk ended up. Amid six months of knitting magazines, bank statements and random stuff from school, there were notes. Ideas. […]
The girl likes to pick things up outside, like most kids do, and I sometimes have trouble just throwing them back outside even though she doesn’t ever notice if I do. Which explains why this giant magnolia leaf has been in our house for a few months now. I decided I wanted to do something […]
Something about vision boards rubs me the wrong way. I know some people swear by them, saying they made a collage of all the things they wanted and actually ended up getting them. It’s the law of attraction on overdrive, and I don’t completely buy into it. I get that positive energy and focusing on […]