Growing up I was never crazy about pie except for cherry pie. I would take cherry pie or at least the cherries any day of the week. My grandmother always loved telling the story about when we went to Marie Calendar’s for my seventh birthday and offered to split a piece of cherry pie with [...]

This year my husband and I have gotten really involved and taken positions on the board. I am in charge of the website, advertising, and design work. Since I have been a graphic designer for almost 20 years, it is no problem. It also gives me another creative outlet where I can experiment with my design. Here are some T-Shirt designs I worked on this weekend. I have many sample on various colored Tees but I will just show you the ones on white to keep it simple.

So why am I writing about a guitarist and a restaurant, when my primary creative outlet is quilting? Because, the whole time as I ate and listened, I kept marveling at the fact on how we are all made with such different spirits of creativity. I might be visual and my creativity comes out in my art and quilts, but I tasted and heard creativity last night.

“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” — Alan Alda

I actually think I am going to cry. I felt the tears well up as I opened my Quilter’s Home Magazine and began to read Matt Sparrow’s article “Working from home: Lies, truths and my real story.” I wanted to scream to the world, “Finally, a man that knows what it is like to work at home!”

Maybe this will interest the husbands out there more than the quilters, but you got to admit the price is right. We have a nice large yard with one square acre. We wanted to have a patio for larger groups where parents of our kid’s friends could sit in a cooler spot and still watch the kids play. But a patio that size would have costed thousands of dollars in bricks or cement. Then my hubby had a revelation…

I posted these on my Facebook, but I thought I would give you all a laugh too. They border on obscene, but it is only snow. About a month a ago me and my boys – AKA my hubby and sons, went to the mountains, Sequoia’s to be exact. It was beautiful. We had a wonderful day building sled runs, forts to shield us from the snow ball fights, and of course snowmen…or at least snow women.

Even though I have had my business out of my home for 16 out of the 19 years it has been in existence, I have never found it more difficult than in the past couple of years. Early on it was easy, because my first child was calm and placid, not to mention I had a nanny to help with the cleaning and child care. But now, all my kids are in school and peace should reign throughout the land. Right? Wrong!

WHAT IS CREATIVITY? By Ronna Lynn Ross What is creativity and why do we need it? Creativity is defined as “The use of imagination or original ideas especially in the production of artistic work.” “Work?” How did “work” get involved here? Wasn’t creativity the pictures we used to make in kindergarten that our parents swore they [...]