Myth: White is one of the easiest colors to use. It goes with everything and make the room look brighter. Those dreamy, creamy all-white rooms that you swoon over in magazines are surprisingly difficult to recreate in your decor. More often than not, instead of a creating a peaceful, heavenly space; white-lovers may create spaces…
Deer are regular uninvited guests in my yard. Over the years, I’ve learned that it is better to just accept their destructive presence and plant more of the types of plants they don’t like. https://marieyoungcreative.com/2013/07/13/deer-resistant-garden/
My polymer clay guild made “bottles of hope” for cancer patients for this month’s challenge. For my entry, I sculpted this free-spirited blue bird over a tiny bottle. His little belly shares a message of “hope.” I’m donating it to a dear Franciscan Friar who works with me at Saint Francis University in Loretto. He…
Zombies + the Food Pyramid = creativity booster
Yes, it’s true. Zombies and the our own USDA Food Pyramid hold the key to unlocking your creativity. Read more about zombies and the food pyramid.
So have you emerged from winter hibernation yet? Winter has been really slow to move on this year. Here in central Pennsylvania we’ve had snow and bitter temperatures right though the start of April. That’s why today’s near 70 degree temps were blissful. I slipped on my sneakers at lunch and headed to the lake…
Everyone is busy creating Easter-themed eggs right now, but while you have the blown-out egg shells handy, why not create a few that you can enjoy all year? I covered these ones with polymer clay in colors that matched my living room. The bowl is one of my only experiments with a pottery wheel–25 years…