One thing that is a fun creative challenge is to combine different materials or genres of art or craft into the same project. I know somewhere once I saw a list of a bunch of different crafty mashups, and I’m pretty sure I pinned it, but of course now I …
It seems like just about every project, in whatever genre, leaves leftovers, and I’m always reluctant to get rid of those little leftover bits, even when it would be easy to. For example, I keep a lot of tiny bits of paper left over from other projects even though it’s …
I was cleaning up the girl’s room the other day and happened across this sheet from an atlas that I’d given her last year when we did her dragon egg hunt. She won’t miss it, so I decided to use it as a background for a project. You can paint …
I had really high hopes for this week being a test of how well I could work with the girl at home. I cleared off most of a shelf in my office and filled it with lots of different activities: books, puzzles, projects and fun stuff to try. My idea …
Do you have a junk drawer or a place where you collect random little things that are left over from projects or you aren’t quite sure where but that you’d don’t want to get rid of or know what to do with? Admittedly, I have little collections of things all …
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 …
I mentioned recently that my one little word for 2016 is clear. Even if you don’t have a little word, you might have a word that is meaningful to you or that you want to focus on in the new year. Create, for example, is always a good word for …
