Category: Creative Life
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How Creativity Helped Us Rock Our Debt Free Journey
Getting out of debt is not easy but creativity really helped us on our debt free journey. Ours was a LONG road, but we did it, and you can too!
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Painted Fall Table Runner
This fall I’ve been on the lookout for a fall table runner or tablecloth. I wanted something simple and understated that I could add decoration to as needed. We were at Target picking up supplies for another blog post about sending a boo in the mail when I noticed a plain table runner in the…
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Learn How to See Like an Artist
Here are seven ways to see like an artist and to incorporate moments of creative thinking into your life. Your creative life will expand exponentially the more you practice these tips. And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.…
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Three Reasons Why Curiosity is the Key to Creativity
Curiosity is the key to creativity. Learn how you can jumpstart your natural curiosity and in turn, live your most creative life. Curiosity. When I think about the word, “curious”, I immediately think of a little mischievous monkey and the man with a yellow hat. “Curious” conjures up ideas of someone who gets into trouble…
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How to Make a Goal Map for Creatives
Have you ever created a goal map for your aspirations for the year? How about for the projects and ideas you’d like to accomplish in your creative life? If you’re new to this whole making goals for your creative life thing, then read this article first on why it’s important to make them. Then come…
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How to Choose a Word of the Year
Want to learn how to choose a word of the year? Let’s make this as easy as possible! Have you seen this thing called choosing a word of the year in your Instagram feed? Or anywhere for that matter? A lot of people decide at the beginning of the year that one word will be…
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Be Brave In Your Life, Creativity, and Art Journal!
How can you be brave in your life AND your art journal? I’m glad you asked! We are currently in the middle of an art journaling challenge where we are diving deep into a prompt for two weeks at a time. It’s been a fun journey to use these prompts to draw, collage, paint, and…
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How to Make a Fall Watercolor Leaf Card
Learn how to make a fall watercolor leaf card using watercolor pencils. This is a simple project to do and will brighten a friend’s day when they receive it in the mail! When I was visiting my parents recently, I had the chance to read through my mom’s stack of magazines and new-to-me cookbooks. You…
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How to Fail in Three Easy Steps (And Why You Need To)
Considering failure is one of the Big Fears many of us creatives face, writing a post on how to fail might seem a bit . . . well, strange. But how are we going to ever push past this fear if we keep on giving it teeth? You know how it is: when you feed…
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Three Ways to Make Time for Creativity
Ah, the time factor. Have you ever wanted to jump into a creative project and then talked yourself out of it because of the time involved? Maybe you imagined hauling out all the fabric and sorting it. Or searching through your closet or drawers for the knitting needles. Or driving over to the store to…