Tag: #inspiration

  • Be Brave: Creative Courage for the Artist

    Be Brave: Creative Courage for the Artist

    Learn how to build your own creative courage today. It really does matter! Bravery. Courage. Strength. These words don’t exactly bring up visions of artists wielding paintbrushes or hunched over sketchbooks, do they? But the need for creative courage is real if you’re an artist. You know deep down inside that it takes a real…

  • This Was April

    This Was April

    Hello! April came and went like a blur—am I always going to say this?—and the weather has felt very fitting. We’ve had warm sunny days that have reminded me of spring in Los Angeles and incredibly cool days with the wild wind whipping through our hair that reminds me of spring here in Oregon. 🙂…

  • Use What You Have: 5 Ideas to Get You Started

    Use What You Have: 5 Ideas to Get You Started

    This post is the third in a series on using the supplies you already have at home as a crafter. You can read the first post about how you don’t need a craft store to be creative and the second on how using what you already have can super-charge your creativity here. So after reading…

  • The Truth About Craft Blogging

    The Truth About Craft Blogging

    This morning as I was talking to my husband, I reached over to pick up a small craft I had been working on for the past few days. I wanted to know the truth—whether I should feature it on the blog or not—so I picked it up to show him and ask. The second I…

  • Guest Post on The Crafty Blog Stalker

    Guest Post on The Crafty Blog Stalker

    I’m so excited to share with you that my post on How to Make Bunting Gift Wrap is being featured on The Crafty Blog Stalker this morning. The picture above is a sneak peek of the fabric scraps I used—you’ll have to click over to Katie’s site to read the rest of the article! 🙂…

  • 5 Ways to Spark Creativity

    5 Ways to Spark Creativity

    Life is busy, isn’t it? I felt like that when I was single and even more so now that I’m married and have a toddler. Being a creative person, it kills me to not be working on a project, but there are only so many hours in the day. This is a pretty common problem…

  • God’s Grandeur

    God’s Grandeur

    (one of my favorite poems for this beautiful Saturday) The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And…