How will you celebrate Earth Day?
After sprucing up your nest, doing some yard work, attending festivities, hiking, or otherwise enjoying the outdoors, here's a refreshing idea: Make your own Lavender Cream Soda.
Celebrating {Mother} Earth Day
How will you celebrate Earth Day?
After sprucing up your nest, doing some yard work, attending festivities, hiking, or otherwise enjoying the outdoors, here's a refreshing idea: Make your own Lavender Cream Soda.
Introducing: Inspiring Creative Women + Party Link
Welcome to my series that will feature YOU
and benefit us ALL
in a whole new way from regular linky parties.
Creative inspiration comes from more than seeing fabulous projects {although that is fun and certainly helps!}.
Creative inspiration can come from:
- Becoming more attuned to our own creative process.
- Discovering how to juice up flexible thinking.
- Being able to access more of the talent residing within us.
By sharing their stories, the women featured here
will inspire, uplift, and validate our common experiences, and spark some Aha! moments.
Being creative is a profound approach to life.
If you thought you were 'only' decorating a room, refinishing furniture, making a craft or cooking up a meal...
look more closely.
I believe we are actually strengthening the
higher part of our nature that allows us to see unique connections, take flexible perspectives, admire diversity, and embrace adventure.
Yes, creativity is not just an act,
but an approach that adds depth, meaning and joy to our lives.
This series will bring that creative process
into sharper focus.
The name of this series points two ways:
We will hear from inspiring, creative women.
And we will be inspiring
creative women.
If you're reading this, you're one of them.
{ahem. unless you're a man... and in that case, we want to inspire you too!}
Check out these featured Inspiring Women interviews:
Check out these featured Inspiring Women interviews:
Kathy at: Katalina Jewelry
AND:
Plus...leave a comment to tell me what you'd like to hear about from fabulously creative women.
{I'm sharing my Inspiring Creative Women series news with...Monday: Craftomaniac, Making The World Cuter, Marvelously Messy, Project Queen, The Girl Creative, The Gunny Sack, Alderberry Hill, A Round Tuit, Skip to My Lou, Cherished Bliss, Northern Cottage; Tuesday: Not Just a Housewife, Sew Crafty, Tip Junkie, Today's Creative Blog, Uncommon, Oopsey Daisy, Gingersnap Crafts; Wednesday: The 36th Avenue, Blue Cricket Design, It's Overflowing, Nest of Posies, Savvy Southern Style, Someday Crafts, The Trendy Treehouse, Very Merry Vintage Style, What We Wore & Made; Thursday: Shabby Nest; Friday: Finding Fabulous, My Simple Home Life, Romantic Home, Tatertots and Jello, The Shady Porch, Thirty Handmade Days, Faith Trust & Pixie Dust, Naptime Crafters, Too Much Time on my Hands, Classy Clutter, Stuff & Nonsense, Craft Junkie Too; Saturday: Be Different Act Normal, Funky Junk Interiors, French Country Cottage, Sisters of the Wild West, Sew Country Chick; Sunday: Nifty Thrifty Things, Under The Table and Dreaming, My 1929 Charmer, Sew Darned Crafty}
Flower Bows for Gift Packages
Oriole Nest Vase from Plastic Bottle
The Mother Lode linky party! Craft Craze 7
Feel free to browse! Click here for latest party 411
Presenting the newest Linky Party theme and a new idea for getting to know you better!
I love the projects you link up, so I want to continue to give your fabulous projects exposure on Facebook and Pinterest.
I am also yearning to know about you and your creative process. SO.... one lucky artist from the linky party will be featured here at I Gotta Create in an interview format.*
I am so excited about nurturing a creative community where we inspire and learn from each other!
Bring on the Mother Lode of creativity! Link up the best of your blog or a current project. {limit: 3 projects per week} Fresh links open each Wednesday right here for the Mother Lode theme, and stay open all week. I can't wait to see what you've been up to.
Grab this or the Generic Party Button; or put a text link in your post: I Gotta Create!
Grab this or the Generic Party Button; or put a text link in your post: I Gotta Create!
*Linky party rules are here* {Be sure to link back to be eligible}
*Examples of some 'interview' questions:
Tell us a little about you and your interests.
How did you come up with this idea / your ideas?
What inspired / inspires you? When do you tend to get your best ideas?
What personal characteristics do you draw on most to keep pursuing your creative interests?
What are your goals or dreams for your creativity?
I have tons more questions, but I'm interested:
Q: What else would you want to know about another creative soul?
From Plastic Tubes to Spring Nests
Nests. They are deeply symbolic, beautiful and functional. They speak of Spring, birth, nature and renewal. They speak of hearth, home, nurturing, and comfort. Yet they also whisper of growth, flight and taking leave.
Spring is in full bloom here. With Earth Day and Mother's Day around the corner it seems fitting to celebrate with a creative series of Nests. This "tube nest" is a miniature study of the interaction of our own "Nests" and Nature. In our own homes, plastic is everywhere, so I've transformed a plastic tube into a Nest.
Using permanent inks and embossing powders in conjunction with a variety rubber stamps, I chose a mixture of free flowing images juxtaposed with chicken wire for the back of the tube.
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