Category: Creative Life

  • How I Use the Mollie Ollie Mimmo Caddy

    How I Use the Mollie Ollie Mimmo Caddy

    See that girl above? That’s what I felt like when I realized all of my journals (okay, the current ones) could fit in one happy place in my new Mollie Ollie Mimmo caddy. They graciously sent me one to review, and I want to share a bit about it with you today. But first, how…

  • February is Love Month

    February is Love Month

    “Mommy, February is Love Month!” I looked at my eight year old’s sparkling eyes directed at me waiting for an equally enthusiastic reply. I couldn’t think of any reason why we couldn’t celebrate all month long, so Love Month it was. With my watchful apprentice at hand, I cut out small pink and red hearts…

  • Simple Ombré Christmas Tree Card

    Simple Ombré Christmas Tree Card

    These simple ombré Christmas tree cards are an ode to the paint chip cards I use to easily find at my local grocery store. During the pandemic, the entire paint section was reduced to an aisle and the paint chips disappeared. I didn’t think much of it until I found a cute tutorial on how…

  • Creative Play for Your Little One: Christmas Edition

    Creative Play for Your Little One: Christmas Edition

    I love open-ended creative play. This year, for Christmas, instead of pulling out our plastic nativity set with the fat little people and animals, I pulled out the Lincoln Logs, a tray that has a lip (it’s really a tray you use to eat in bed!) and an assortment of stones, sand, and Douglas Fir…

  • Art All The Time—Create Opportunities for Your Child to Create

    Art All The Time—Create Opportunities for Your Child to Create

    We love to make art projects of all kinds around here. But I’ll be honest, sometimes I don’t want to deal with the clean up (and the set up) part. So I’ve made it a point to make art accessible—to create opportunities for my child to easily create all day long. Get a Clipboard Some…

  • Make a Hand-painted Quote Frame

    Make a Hand-painted Quote Frame

    This hand-painted quote frame was one I liked so much, I ended up making one for me too. (Don’t tell, :)) Christmas is just around the corner, so I’ve been pulling out all of my art supplies to make treasures for my family and friends. I originally purchased this blank frame from Target, but you…

  • Awake Wonder in Your Child (And YOU!) this School Year

    Awake Wonder in Your Child (And YOU!) this School Year

    Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. (attributed to Henry Ford) I woke early, before my child or husband woke, to shuffle out into the living room and read. Quiet. I opened the sliding glass door to let in the cool dawn air and listened.…

  • How to Paint an Ocean Waves Canvas

    How to Paint an Ocean Waves Canvas

    Oh, how I love this ocean waves canvas painting! It is simple enough for a child or novice to make and it’s also quite therapeutic. 🙂 This painting idea came to me several years ago when I was working on some larger canvases. As I painted, I would swipe the extra paint off of my…

  • How to Set Up a Simple Homeschool Binder

    How to Set Up a Simple Homeschool Binder

    Today I’m going to show you how to set up a simple homeschool binder for your student (or students.) Whether or not you live in a state where extensive record keeping is required, I highly recommend keeping records of your kids’ work. For older students, you’re going to need the work your student completed to…

  • Creativity for Your Heart, Real Life, and Soul

    Creativity for Your Heart, Real Life, and Soul

    Well, I’m back. After taking a sabbatical for the past year, I’m back here in this space, wanting to write again. So much has happened, and I miss this outlet. And in these crazy times, I think, no, I know there is such a NEED for creativity for our hearts, real life, and the deepest…