creativity

The Art of Creative Outings     Planning creative outings with family and friends is sometimes a challenge.  You know you want to get together but the question is ”what should we do?”  There are never a lack of choices but how to decide what to do is not as easy. For me, research is […]

Using Every Day Items to Enhance Creativity Your garden, garbage and garage are great sources for creative projects. Whether you use a familiar object in an unfamiliar way or you design your personalized version of a well-worn idea, your everyday life is filled with opportunities to create.   The first step in flexing your creative muscles

Carving out Time To Be Still     If you decided to get the Covid-19 vaccine, or not, ready, or not, the world is reopening. Airports are bustling, vacations and weddings are scheduled and many have resumed their pre-pandemic lives. Places to go, people to see, goals to be accomplished (including losing the Covid-19 eating

CULTIVATING CREATIVITY IN THE KITCHEN Now that Spring has arrived, many of us get into a state of extreme organizing, popularly known as “spring cleaning.” I am not sure what it is about Spring that springs us into this frenzy but my guess is it has to do with the motivation to rid ourselves of

How About Some Houseplants to add a creative Touch to your Home? Last week I felt the urge to add to my collection of houseplants. The rain had been incessant here, although we are quite fortunate to have mild winter weather, and all I could think about was how much I missed being outside to

Collecting Expands Creativity Throughout my childhood, I collected Archie comic books. I cannot remember whether my Grandfather, whom I called Papa, started my collection or if he was just an avid contributor to it, but every summer when I was at sleep-away camp he would send me, almost weekly, a manilla envelope containing three or

Home for the Holidays  Never before in our lifetimes has the phrase “home for the holidays” been more literal. The pandemic of 2020 has shattered many holiday norms including gatherings of families and friends. Although different this year, the holiday season is a great opportunity to try new and creative ways of celebrating. One great way

The Creative Art of Letter Writing When I was a child, letter writing was a primary way of communicating between people near and far. I remember in elementary school, probably Fourth Grade or so, my homeroom teacher, who was also my English teacher, assigned each of us a pen-pal. Our pen-pals were from a class that

Add Flowers On Ice Flowers, and the art of arranging and displaying them at home is a joyful activity that beautifies any living space. Many years ago, my husband Dan started a tradition of bringing me weekly flowers, especially roses. There were red ones, blush pink ones, lavender and yellow ones, and variegated ones too,

Gardens are magical havens of creativity Gardens are magical havens of creativity where you can design, cultivate, and gain spiritual nourishment, not to mention a healthy source of plant-based food!  How you plant your garden, whether you have a wide, open acreage or a window sill is an act of creativity. What colors, fragrances, practical