Last year I wrote a series of emails to start the new year, encouraging people to make for 20 minutes for 20 days. This year I decided to add a day a turn it into an ebook: the 20/21 Creativity Jumpstart. While of course the beginning of a new year isn’t magic, and I’m a […]
100 Ways to Be More Creative, No Matter How Much Time You Have
We all wish we had more time to be creative, but even when you’re pressed for time it’s possible to make something great. Here are 100 ways to be more creative, broken down approximately by how much time they might take. (Your results may vary.) I hope they will serve as a jumping off point […]
How to Level Up Your Crafts and Your Life
I don’t know that it’s absolutely true, but I would guess that most of us have invisible walls around certain things in crafting and in life, skills you’d love to have but you just can’t level up your crafts. Maybe starting a whole new craft just sounds too daunting, though you’d really love to knit […]
Boost Your Creativity Today with This Fun Class from Creativebug
Want an easy way to boost your creativity? This Creativebug course gives you 30 easy ideas in 3 hours. Living a more creative life is always a goal for me, and something I try to encourage in my readers and friends as well. And even though I have plenty of ideas for things to make […]
Creativity Boost: Writing Practice
I know not everyone who reads this site is a writer, and I know that writing is not the only way to be creative, but establishing a writing practice is an act of creativity that I think can help a lot of people be more creative, even if they don’t primarily create with words. What […]
Creativity Boost: Pay Attention
I’m pretty sure at some point when Jackie and I were walking around Santa Fe we talked about wondering if people there ever get tired of or stop noticing the view. I wondered the same thing when I lived in coastal Massachusetts for a summer. Do people who grow up with that view get complacent, […]
Creativity Boost: Honor the Transition
I spent the last five days at a writing and meditation retreat in Santa Fe, which was amazing and wonderful and inspiring and tiring. I spent most of yesterday trying to get home after storms in Dallas messed up air travel for the whole center of the country and beyond, finally making it home about […]