Creative Arts

Just pucker up and blow… if you want to go with some kind of spray paint doodle. I don’t think the paint tastes that great so I just stick to a semi-ordinary pen and blank, white paper. I scan my doodles then plaster them to my personal blog. The odd thing is that people like […]

My Grandmother liked to make puppets. She would work with kids in her small town (in Ontario) and put on whole puppet shows. They built the stage, sets, costumes, wrote plays and of course they made masses of puppets. There were different kinds, not just sock puppets. Some you put your hand inside and the […]

I collect postcards. Not as much as I did when I wrote to a thousand or so penpals around the world when I was a teen, but I still pick up the odd one here and there. I don’t get to travel much so it’s far more challenging to collect postcards when you are in […]

You wouldn’t know it by standing over my shoulder any time but I am trying to write a book. It’s not easy. I already have the general idea for the story, the characters, and even the time to work on it. The problem is converting what made a good short story into a long story. […]

I applied to write a topic at About.com. If anyone has good contacts there I would appreciate a good word put in for me. It’s not the first topical network I have written for but it seems to be the toughest to get into. Which is a good thing for the writers, site owners and […]

Wrapping paper and Christmas cards are part of the tradition but how about being even more creative and environmentally friendly? Sending online Christmas cards isn’t the same but it’s an alternative. If you buy cards get them in a box, buying a single card will cost a lot more. Plus you will have enough cards […]

I wanted to blog for the women like myself, those who get told how pretty they would be if only… When I’m feeling good hearing that makes me annoyed. When I’m not feeling so good hearing that makes me feel awful and hopeless. So, I want to make this blog for other women who have […]