I’ve been a little quiet here lately! For two reasons. First I’ve been putting my creative and mental energy into working on my main site, The Floss Box where I have my embroidery and cross stitch pattern store. It needed some attention! Or a whole lot. It’s an ongoing project. Secondly I’ve been quietly absorbed …
The autumnal equinox is officially marking the end of our creative summer. It’s always sad to see the sun fading, taking it’s bright energy away for the next few months. It’s always good to take a few minutes and reflect on how things have gone. Take a look at where you were at the beginning …
Welcome back to Creative Summer Week 4. We’ve had a little intermission as life got in the way a little! Such will happen in our creative lives. There is not much to do but dust off and jump back in, and so I am, and I hope you are too if you have had to …
Hello all!I hope your summer of creativity is going well, and you are enjoying some great weather as well! This week our creativity boosting idea comes in the form of doodling. It’s a great little habit to have. It fills those idle moments with some easy, low stress creativity. The key is simple. Keep it …
Welcome to Creative Summer Week 3! I hope this past week has been a creative week for you. This week we are continuing to build our habit, finding our way into the creative flow. It’s that place where you have pretty well established your habit, and now it’s just making sure to show up and …
Hello and welcome to week 2 of Creative Summer!! This week we are working on building our creative habit as we talked about in the last post. It sometimes takes sacrifice and some serious determination to be there for your creativity, as you know. Little by little we let it become part of our everyday …
Welcome to Week 2 of Creative Summer 2021! I hope this week finds you feeling creative and hopefully happy! This week we’ll be working on building the creative habit. I’m guessing that you’ve already heard it many times, how important it is to create a daily habit. And that even 5-10 minutes is a great …
Hey everyone!I hope it’s been a creative week for you. I’m looking forward to seeing what the next week brings and where it takes us. I’m sharing my own progress for the week here. I’ve been playing with watercolor, threads and marker. I’ve been playing around this year with free watercolor ideas. They don’t need …
This week the focus is on how we use personal symbols in our art and what we can do to make them more expressive, imaginative and creative. I think of personal symbols as motifs that appear frequently in your art. You may not have even label them as such, and that’s ok. The main thing …
Welcome to week 1 of Creative Summer 2021! This is a free 6-week program for anyone that wants to make sure to stay creative through the summer! Each week will have a different focus and ideas to help keep you going. This is designed to be more than just a pep-you-up program. Through the weeks …
