To Help You To Be Creative!

Being creative can be easy.  You pretty much have to want to be creative.

If you want to be creative...

•  Think about how to do something in a different way.  In need of organizing your desk?  Think about different ways making a storage container.  

• Think outside of the box.

• Take a stroll down the craft section of a store ...or even the stationary section.  Look for a product and try and imagine what you could make out of it. 

• Reading; just anything, really.   Especially if the book takes you to another reality.  This gets your mind off of what your normal routine might be.  

• Find craft blogs and read about what types of projects they have been doing!  Give it a try. 


There are definitely so many ways to be creative and I only touched on a few.




Cindy

Creative Finds! Old Frames = Practical & Art?!

Lately I've been seeing these craft ideas around a lot.  Changing up an old frame to make it something else ...like a jewelry holder or a front door display item.  It's showing that you can make an item that might be old, into something new!

If done right, it could be a new piece of art up on your wall.

Source: niksnotes2.blogspot.com via Kim on Pinterest

Source: blog.brightnest.com via Molly on Pinterest

Source: curbly.com via Jordan on Pinterest

Source: thefrugalhomemaker.com via Nicole on Pinterest

There are different ways you can approach this old frame craft idea.  You can sand it down, give it a new coat of paint... I remember seeing an idea of cork board wrapped in a pretty wall paper behind the frame... it was quite a while now but when I find it again, I'll be sure to share it on twitter!

 Once you get an idea, go for it!

Finding out simple ways to be creative is fun and can really lighten ones mood.  After you make a project like this, you will not only have a new piece in your house that is a focal point but whenever you see it, you will know that it was you that put it together!  You made art.


How would you make your old frame wall piece?


Cindy

Creativity- Can it be taught?

Yesterday, I ran across an article somewhere talking about if creativity can be taught or if it's just genetics...  Just googling Creativity: Genetics vs Training, there are so many different articles on what people think.

There are some people who say 'I don't have a creative bone in my body.  I can't even draw a straight line!'  
The thing is...  You don't have to know how to draw a straight line to be creative.  I can barely draw a straight line, circle, or what have you and I call myself a creative mind.  The point of me typing this out is to be creative, I believe all you have to do is break down those barriers that tells you you can't do something.

Whether you are a musician, designer, painter, sculptor, etc...  Once that barrier is broken, once you stop that doubt that you can't do something, the creativity will soar through.

I'm sure even the best of artists think they can't do something at one point or another.







Be Creative.
-Cindy