Category Archives: creativity

I’m Happiest When I am Creating

It doesn’t matter if I am organizing a drawer, hanging paintings, creating a flyer for business, making a collage for fun, adding a new element to the studio or making a meal for my family, I am happiest when I am creating.

When I think of it, I realize that for me, doing these things and anything else creative involves my being hands-on with my hands and my mind. I love to see what I am imagining in my mind come into physical form. On a deeper level I think my soul is humming happily along when I am doing it. It’s a way to be grounded in the present and a way to honor me.
I would guess that some form of creating from our hearts in a physical way makes us all a little happier and makes the world a little better too.

Brave.

This week during Girls Club Strong class the girls focused on bravery and the how’s and why’s of it then made these awesome arrows to remind them that they are already brave in lots of ways.

Happy February!

Happy February!
We’ve got a great month planned for you.
Follow our daily instagram posts with the hashtag #createhearts featuring hearts of all varieties to inspire lovingness.
We have our usual open studio time, deal times and days, Messy Toddler Art Fun, Field Trip visits, Troop visits, Machine Sewing classes, Girls Club Strong Confidence Classes, A Pinspired Night, parents Night Out, M.A.T.E.S. Steam Night, Birthday Parties, a Spotlight on YARN and Oak Parks Super Saturday!
Let’s have a lovely time creating together.
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Creating…

What a wow worthy field trip visit we had from White Oak Elementary 4th and 5th graders we had today. They created fictitious missions and early American Colonies in collaborative groups with impressive features and details, all with scraps of this and bits of that.
Impressive!

One more time…

Shining last light on styrofoam, we think of packing peanuts and the hands on play that can ensue.
If you get a delivery of styrofoam or its alter ego -a corn starch based backing material (pictured here) is even better for curious science style fun. It can fuse together with water! Go on, explore…

Give me a hand.

All hands on deck!
Birthday party guests make cardboard emoji necklaces. Now this is how we like to see kids using their hands- making, painting, building, exploring and discovering.
Save technology hands on use for another day.
Kids need time like THIS to decompress and express!

Wisely…

We had a great time with Daisy Troop 61024 who came to work on the Girl Scout creed-using their resources wisely.
They brought along empty Kleenex boxes that we converted into houses. This house has all the fixin’s including a tiny Styrofoam puppy who lives there.
Who needs flashy stuff when the imaginings you have come to life with the simplest of things.

Boxes!

We love boxes for so many reuses at the studio. In their original state they make great structural works or cut into pieces they can become just about anything else!

Things

As Anias Nin said “We don’t see things as there, we see them as we are”. So, I see Me in these cans! Potential, that’s what I see, oh, and a little challenge too. Thats the fun part.
Back in my early working days as a Costumer in the Film Industry where I worked strictly Low Budget Films, I was at home. I loved the challenge of having to use what I had to make things great. It was all about resourcefulness, I couldn’t buy anything I wanted, I had to make it or-remake it. I felt so Mac Guyver! It was a blast and I felt so good when I saw my work on screen. It was in me to work that way and I could see it in the things I used to create character looks and deadly appearances for sequal slashers. Such fun!
As I emptied my dishwasher yesterday, this stack of cans appeared from the prior days cat food meals, washed and ready for reuse. I took one look at it and thought, this says a lot about me because I see potential…

Happy!

When you can create anything why not create happy!