What Can I Do When Creativity Flees?

“Creativity and anxiety are at odds with each other.  When you are anxious you are vigilant… When you are in that vigilant state you can’t be exploratory, playful, curious, imaginative, creative, innovative, etc.”  Esther Perel, Couples Therapist, from Nov. 11, 2019 episode of “Without Fail” podcast. November has been quite a month.  I came home…

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What Does a Classic Car Have in Common with a China Jelly Jar?

I NEED to create!  My mental health depends on it.   In fact, in my opinion we all have a need to create.  The very beginning of the Bible tells us that God is the Creator of everything, be it animal, fish, plant life, geological, or astronomical.   It is right there in the very first chapter….

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Home!

Home!   I got home to my house on Sunday late evening.  After being gone for over two weeks, I had so much laundry to do. Load after load of it.  But before I could do said laundry, I had to unpack all bags and put the store back into organization. (I had taken much of…

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Minding My Beeswax

se pellOn the trip I was working on an English Paper Piecing project using the 1″ Side Mylar Pieces for English Paper Piecing from our products.  I go in spurts when it comes to hand sewing projects, and started this project a couple of months ago.  It was the perfect project to take on a…

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A Very Good Day!

This morning we woke up in Bedford IN, and headed to our first quilt shop of the day, the Indiana Quilt Depot.  The shop was not open, so again, I stuck a card in the door and we were all ready to move on when we saw movement inside the shop.   I am so glad…

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Seeing Red

This should have posted yesterday, but I was too tired to think it through.  Please pretend you are reading this from yesterday!  🙂 Sis and I woke up this morning in Salem IN, and started heading pretty much due east.  I had my list of quilt shops in hand, and we were ready!  We arrived…

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Crossing the Mississippi

Today’s adventures were not exactly adventures, but we did cover quite a bit of territory heading northeast.  My sister and I started the day out by doing a bit of shopping at a VF Outlet center that was close to the hotel.  We both managed to find (or did they find us?) a couple of…

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Last Adventures in the Ozarks

We woke up in Mountain Home AR, finally moving toward the east, and hopefully by the end of the day, north as well.  Faye from yesterday had told me that we needed to go to Sew Smart Sewing Center to talk with them about my kits.  The ladies there had great ideas and were extremely…

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Eureka!

This day found us stopping at many quilt shops along the way, as well as Eureka Springs, AR!

Hot Springs and Mountain Views

My sister and I woke up this morning outside Hot Springs, Arkansas.  We did a road trip quite a few years ago, and really enjoyed Hot Springs with all of the little shops and the springs.  It is such a beautiful area, and full of art and inspiration.  We drove into town and had a…

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