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DIY to Done: Watercolor Journal Pages
With a few watercolor paints (even the elementary school variety!) and the pages of an old book, you can create a gorgeous scrappy background for your next art journal page. This year, I’ve taken up...
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Art of the Week: Charles MacIntosh Window
As a steampunk fan, I’ve also become fascinated with the Arts & Crafts Movement and real-life Victorian fixations with romanticized medieval culture. This fascination will likely appear in future...
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The League of Marvelosities Chapter 4
Listen to the audio version here, or read the full text below: It was lucky for little Miranda that in the earliest days of her life, she did not understand exactly what had happened at the...
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The Creative Power of Rest
The vacation I didn’t want to take forced me to realize that hibernation isn’t so bad. In fact, the bears just might be on to something . . . Total control of my time is one of the perks of my...
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Scrappy Storytellers, what should we do together?
If we are all scrappy storytellers, then how can we encourage each other to greater resourcefulness? And wouldn’t doing that actually make a difference for all of us? Over the past few months, I’ve...
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Art of the Week: Faerie Frolic #1
One of my goals this year is to get reacquainted with watercolors. Over the past weeks, I’ve discovered a few things: Under painting matters. Less paint is often more. A fine, light touch is essential....
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As the Moon Goes: Biorhythms in Creativity
Maybe in the rush of modern life, we’ve lost some vital knowledge about how to order our lives for maximum peace and productivity. It’s time to find our natural rhythm again. Last week I wrote about...
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Stealing Back Creative Time from Modern Life
There’s never enough time for every creative thing I want to do. But there are always ways to repurpose time that might otherwise be lost. I don’t know about you, but I never have enough time. Somehow...
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Art of the Week: “Lunch Time”
This past week, I was inspired by a hilarious stock photo of a kitten peeking out from among a pile of blankets. I decided to do my own version using Tombow watercolor markers and Higgins sepia ink....
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Thinking Small, Or Thinking Big?
As creators, we often chase the widest audience possible. But what if our biggest impact were a actually a lot closer to home? As an independent creator, I often hear people complain that the “DIY...
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Fragility: The Reward for Creative Faith?
Sometimes the only pay-off for having any faith is when it’s tested again and again everyday. – Fall Out Boy The creative life is a funny thing. You trudge down the trail day in and day out, giving...
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In Art and in Life … The Story Comes First
Every year I have great plans for February. And every year, they get totally derailed. Like it or not, for me February seems to be the month when I’m called to hibernate in my own soul, mulling things...
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The Art is in the Questions, Not the Answers
Someone has wisely said that great art is more about asking questions than it is about providing answers. Perhaps this is why in times of greatest uncertainty, we find such comfort in creativity. I’m...
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People Who Inspire Me: F.E. Clark
For this Scottish artist, magic comes in small packages It’s not often that I see something genuinely beautiful on Twitter. When I first saw F.E. Clark’s work sparkle brilliantly amid the slush in my...
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Back Of House: The Other Side of Storytelling
I’ve noticed recently that when I introduce myself as a storyteller, I get one comment more than any other. People smile and nod, “Oh, that’s great. I guess you must really love to perform on stage?”...
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An Open Letter to my 33 Year Old Self
Sunday was my 33rd birthday. While I enjoy the hooplah of cake, visits from family, and Facebook greetings, I most enjoy the time I dedicate to reflect over last year and consider how to live well in...
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Little Paper Pieces: On the Tearing Up and Rewriting of Your Life
Anyone who knows me well knows how much I hate the process of revision. Ideas tend to flow through me like freight trains, complete thoughts barreling down the track that is my early phases of writing....
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Weightless Warrior: On Fighting Well at 30,000 Feet
“Be fully present. Feel your heart. And engage the next moment without an agenda.” – Pema Chödrön I’ve always considered myself an armchair fencer. My well-loved collection of fencing manuals attest to...
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On the Fine Art of Lock Picking
“We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own...
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The Art of Living: Creating Your Reality – Part 1
“The universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The universe is simply responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting.” ― Abraham Hicks Creativity can take a lot of different forms,...
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