With the holiday season upon us, many people are thinking about wrapping up end of the year projects, finding the perfect gift for everyone on their list, and avoiding gaining five pounds while being surrounded by tempting food and drinks.
What a lot of people won’t think about until after December 25th are their goals for [...]

This is a little photo collage I made from pictures of a bike tire & some succulents in my back yard. I’ve been taking photos in my back yard as well as my parents’ back yard over the past year as a reminder that inspiration for creative projects is everywhere. It’s easy to forget sometimes [...]

Was just reading a post by one of my favorite bloggers, Marisa of Elegant Snobbery, about how much her muse hates her. Boy, can I relate.
Mine has simply gone missing – if you’ve seen her, please send her my way. Unlike Marisa, my muse isn’t torturing me with projects that don’t quite work. She’s tormenting [...]

I was listening to podcasts the other day, and yet again, was intrigued by the topic on Craftypod. Sister Diane was interviewing Paul Overton on the subject of “crafting for money vs. passion”, which happens to be the topic of one of his recent blog posts. Lots to think about.
I’m pretty sure most of you [...]

I got inspired by iHanna to do something I’ve been meaning to do for a while: publish some lists I’ve been making in my journal on my blog for the world to see.
So here’s the first one, 100 Things to Make. Some of these are things I’ve made, some aren’t, most are quick and easy [...]

Are you looking for inspiration? Do you get excited about something for a little while, then get burned out?
That happens to me a lot. I get excited about a new design or a new technique, and after a while, it stops being new and exciting, and I get into a creative rut.
Last month, I got [...]

I’ve spent {way too much} time reading other people’s blogs lately, and in the interest of closing a couple of the tabs currently open in my firefox, I’m going to share a few sites I found that I think are worth spending time reading.
First, have you read iHanna’s blog? Because the next two links were [...]

Taxes really took it out of me this year. I filed over the weekend, so I’m really finished, but I’m still having a lot of trouble getting motivated to make something.
So I’ve been thinking a lot about what inspires my designs. Everyone always says their art is inspired by nature, but I wonder how many [...]

Sometimes the best cure for artist’s block is a good book on creativity. I was at my local bookstore recently, and saw Living the Creative Life: Ideas and Inspiration from Working Artists
by Rice Freeman-Zachery in the craft section. Flipping through, I was intrigued by the artistic page layouts, features of mixed-media artists (including some [...]

I was trying to think of something interesting to write about today, and decided to see what’s happening over at the Monday’s Muse blog meme from Maternal Spark.
Imagine my surprise when I saw my name as one of “10 Creative Moms to Follow” on twitter! So cool! I’m gonna go check out the other nine [...]