Category: Creative Life
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Creative Christmas: What I’m Making This Year
Christmas is coming, and I’m going back to my creative roots this year. For so many Christmases in the past, I happily made most of my gifts: mixtapes/cds, ornaments, knitted scarves, and stitched onesies for the babies in the family. But gradually as the years went on, I bought more and more until I only…
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Summer Garden Memories
As I write this post, we are starting Advent, and yet, since I haven’t written for many long months, I want to go back to the last bits of summer to show the beauty of the flowers in our garden and the little projects I was able to work on this summer. I am determined…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…