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Creative Soul Living is what I call the way I choose to live my everyday life with creative intent. I believe it’s not only possible, but also necessary to create the life you want to see and be. In acknowledging our creativity, we develop self-trust and soothe our collective souls.
Last month, as I searched for a photograph that wasn’t my outdated head shot, I was reminded yet again that I don’t exist. All the pictures in our family albums prove my disappearance. According to these pictures, our family seems to have had some really wonderful times. At the beach, in New York, and at…
A year ago, through my first Blogging Your Way e-course, I connected with a woman online from the upper West coast named Sandra. She is a thoughtful hardworking creative. She does a million other things besides write a blog at Raincoast Creative Salon. One of them is to inspire me. She and her friend Christie…
The problem with coming out of such an active month (October…crazy posting every day) is that I think I should want to not do anything for November. But my creative brain wants no part of a forced hiatus. So what I got is a dust cloud in my brain. Moments of clarity are followed by…
I did it again. This will be the third time I have decorated for the fundraiser at the Unitarian Universalist church we belong to in Easton, MD. And this year the theme was Harvest Hoedown. And so I took inspiration from my jaunts on Pinterest and made the requisite pennants for the ceiling. My husband’s…
With the event this weekend successfully completed, I was able to refocus on the homestead. The porch benefited from the leftover cornstalks and pumpkins. Stunt leaves and all. But wait, there’s a baby who woke up and since it was such a beautiful day, what the hay. She crawls now you know. She loves to…
While everyone is participating in National Write A Bunch of Words Everyday Month and National Post To Your Blog Everyday Month, I’m going to lay a little lower. My three posts per week may be enough blog achievement for November. Because I just finished a month straight of posts (Pretty Pictures Month ended, wheww) as…
Traditionally, we have carved our pumpkins by Halloween night and happily light the tea candles within to enjoy their macabre faces while we eat grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. Because of the recent craziness, our time available to carve was today. Before Eamon came along, I made Mark carve pumpkins with me. Poor soul….
I started to think how neat it would be to put together a post of all the pictures of Eamon’s Halloween costumes though his life. I madly dug through every suitcase and picture file to find these. I’m missing a few but if I do find them, they can be added. This is my “Halloween…
I did a post entitled Weird and Wonderful last May. Happened to be wondering around Flicker (random picture site) one day since and stumbled on the page of a woman who calls herself urban woods walker. And Weird and Wonderful is happening again. Apparently there was a Trashion Show somewhere in Indiana where this woman’s work was…
In the Spring and the Fall, I loved to have an open house at the shop. I’d make food and offer 10 – 50 % off stuff. But my favorite part was creating the invitations. I would look for just the right image and then cajole someone into making it for me (remember I’m not…
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