Creative Living

Find solutions for challenges • Open energies & clear clutter • Do-It-Yourself, because you can • Value yourself and your creativity • Generously give thoughtful gifts • Participate in artistic activities • Enjoy entertaining • Create & live freely in a harmonious setting

Love Bugs Craft for Kids

Do you love to create with your kids!?  As a Visual Arts Teacher, I love designing art lessons that challenge my students to grow creatively.  I expose my students to a wide variety of art materials, artist exemplars, and techniques. Experimentation and playing joyfully through creativity is so much fun for kids, and believe it or not, it’s fun for...
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Make-a-Date Sticks

Are you looking for a creative way to remind yourself that it’s ok to schedule time for fun? Most of us are overwhelmed with responsibility and our daily routines. We may easily lose sight of what it means to live in joy, happily ever after – for real!  Consider giving this jar of “Make-a-Date sticks” to your hubby, boyfriend, girlfriend,...
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Mini Quotation Cards for Valentine’s Day

It’s fun to design these mini quotation cards with a variety of card-stock and unique papers. As an artist educator, I save scraps of just about everything, because whether I’m in my home art studio or classroom art studio, I put everything to good use and up-cycle as much as possible. If you love to create using the collage technique,...
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Coconut Cocoa Fudge Bites

Want to serve your sweethearts fun and healthy dessert treats?  These rich Coconut Cocoa Fudge Bites (Coco Bites) make 85 bite size fudge pieces that can be paired with raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, or pomegranate seeds. This healthy dessert is non-dairy, non-GMO, raw, gluten free, and made from real superfood ingredients.  Depending upon the type of celebration, or the time of...
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Build Creativity Through Play

Artistic knowledge develops through artistic play as we analyze and evaluate experiences based on our interactions with surrounding environments. In order to build creativity through play, one must constantly engage in artistic play, embracing a wide variety of materials, tools, ideas, and design explorations. Artistic creation is a process, artistic growth is a process, and yes, creativity can be developed...
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