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Why not pick up a new summer craft this year? New skills are always a lot of fun, and learning how to do seasonal crafts can keep you busy in those idle summer afternoons. Besides, when the kids complain about nothing to do, you can be at the ready!

My favorite craft? Well, I will tell you a secret. I’m not so much into crafts in the usual sense. Nothing wrong with them, of course. It’s just that I would rather spend the time learning an art that can be applied to many different crafts. In other words, if you learn to draw well, you can create portraits of your pets, make up comic books, frame gifts for your family for Christmas, and so on!

What about kids? The same holds true for them. Children are natural artists, believe me! Give a small child a pad of paper and a box of crayons and that child will most likely be occupied for hours! But having said that, it can be fun to work through a book on crafts, just remember to let your own creativity loose as well.

Posted June 29, 2010 Comments(0)

The changing of the seasons always brings with it new ideas and new dreams. I love to plan for the future holiday season about now. Some people think that’s a little "out there," but I love to occupy myself during long summer days with projects for the fall. It has something to do with Autumn and winter being my favorite seasons of the year and I start looking forward to them as soon as the weather starts getting hot again!

One of my favorite projects is making up stories (written and illustrated by me, of course) for my young relatives, under the age of 10. They look forward to these homemade tales, and believe me, it gets the creative juices going, all right! These are the special gifts they get every Christmas.

What season do you especially love? And what are you doing to prepare for the holidays within that special time of year?

Posted June 22, 2010 Comments(0)

When was the last time you let loose with your favorite Broadway tune? It doesn’t matter if you were in the shower, the car or alone on a trail somewhere. Singing is good for us! This may be only my opinion, but when I sing I am instantly happier.

Learn to love your own voice, because all of us has a unique one. And encourage your children and grandchildren to sing as well. When I was a child, my days were spent in song, and my entire family sang as well. We harmonized, created tunes, and made up songs about famous people.

Singing is one more way to get some creativity into our lives, and increase our happiness as well as the happiness of the ones we love.

Posted June 16, 2010 Comments(0)

There is nothing like spending time with a grandchild to remind one all the beauty and creativity in the world. And it’s hard to be  serious when your little 5 year old grandson is explaining how elves live in the garden, or how a lion came to visit him in his bedroom last night!

I think everyone should spend some time each week with a child. The children of today will inherit the earth, and we, of course, need to encourage them. If you don’t have children or grandchildren, consider volunteering at a daycare or head start center. Give a child the "gift" of someone being interested in him or her. This will hold a child in good stead for the rest their life.

Posted June 9, 2010 Comments(0)

Attention Deficit Disorder? What does that have to do with this blog? As you know by now, I am big on creative kids. This is why I am big on keeping away from psychiatric labeling. In fact, I have absolute certainty that many of the most creative artists on the planet could have had psychiatric labels affixed to them.

Afterward, of course, they would have been drugged and possibly electro-shocked, thereby ending any possibility of their continuing as an artist. This has happened in the past, it is happening today. Please, if your child has been labeled ADD, ADHD or something similar, look for alternative ways to treat his symptoms.There are nutritional and supplemental ways to handle this. In my book, drugs are not a last choice, they are absolutely NEVER an option to treat a mental "symptom."

Let’s save the artists of our times from psychiatric drugging!

Posted June 2, 2010 Comments(0)