Creative Process Focus: Monthly Door Makeovers – March

by Jennifer Schulting on 3/27/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

For every month this year I’m going to decorate the door that leads into my office.  It’s the first place I go in the morning and it’s the last place I leave before going “night night.”   So, why not have something interesting to look at, right?  And, I thought …

Unconventional Inspiration: The Hardware Store

by Kim Lapacek on 3/15/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Organizing Papa Fabric Basket from SallyManke on Flickr
As I’ve posted about before – I’m really into challenges right now.  One of the latest Project QUILTING Challenges was to visit a hardware store and be inspired by at least 3 things to create a quilt – of course, in just one …

Acting on Inspiration

by Kim Lapacek on 3/02/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

As I mentioned in my ‘How to Paint an Owl‘ post, I decided to use what I had learned in the class to create my vary own quilted owl. It’s just one example of how all the classes I’ve been taking and challenges I have been participating in have inspired …

Creative Process Focus: Monthly Door Makeovers – February

by Jennifer Schulting on 2/26/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

For every month this year I’m going to decorate the door that leads into my office.  It’s the first place I go in the morning and it’s the last place I leave before going “night night.”   So, why not have something interesting to look at, right?  And, I thought …

How are you being Marked by your Muse?

by Stephey Baker on 2/26/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Giclee Art Print of Clouds | $42 | Stephey Baker Marked by the Muse: Inspirational Art Shop
Being Marked by the Muse™ is a fancy-pants motto to living creatively – to experiencing your fullest potential throughout Life.
Being Marked by the Muse™ yields strength, conviction, light heartedness and a feeling of invincibility.

The …

Spark Tweets: What Inspires You?

by Emily Orpin on 2/23/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Expand into Dreams | $60 | Stephey Baker
For February’s Spark Tweets, @handmadespark and me (@ejorpin) asked all you lovely people who follow us on Twitter to tell us a bit about the things that inspire you, the things that drive your creative spark.  And wow, what a fabulous response – thank …

Creative Business Plan Series: Who are your Mentors?

by Robin Norgren on 2/22/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Fabric bunting Upcycled Vintage Fabric | $21 | Knotted Nest
This is part 7 in the Business Plan Series inspired by Lisa Sonora Beam’s Book “The Creative Entrepreneur”.

From my journal pages
My biggest sources of information for exploring my creativity are books.  The very first creative book I read from cover to …

How Do You Define Dream?

by Stephey Baker on 2/21/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

I define Dream as the following:

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison
What is your dream? What is calling within you to be realized?
Be mindful to how you allow yourself to Dream. What you allow yourself …