Jumpstart Creativity Tour

I cannot begin to tell you how excited I was when I heard Jess Greene of Seek Your Course planned on stopping in Boise for her Jumpstart Creativity Tour. So excited in fact I immediately marked it in my calendar and pledged to help sponsor her tour.

I am incredibly appreciative of the intention behind the journey she is taking and what she is doing across the country (and Canada) to awaken creativity in others. I believe it is such an important activity that it should be held sacred and fostered in everyone.

The mission from her site really says it all: "We believe that the creative community has the power to create change in the world"

Jess still has many events planned so check the site to see if your city is on the list. I hope you will take an hour to join her for mess making and artistic play when she stops in your area. 

I want to give a huge heartfelt thank you to Jess for sharing her creative knowledge and time with all of us. It truly was a pleasure meeting her and I cannot wait to see what else is in store for her.

On being Creative

This past year has been a lot of things for me but mostly one thing: Exploration. Through that self exploration I have learned how much of my life is driven by creativity. Ever since I can remember I have loved to create. Both of my parents have helped to foster the creativity in me. I remember my Mom always crafting things for people during the holiday season growing up. I remember my Dad helping me deck out a wooden doll house with real wall paper and carpet. In High School I was involved in the year book, photography, darkroom and art classes. I had no idea then how much those things would grow to become part of my life today.

Though others have always encouraged my creative lifestyle it is only now that I am truly realizing how much I need to create to be happy. What I don't seem to be doing is focusing on one creative medium. I have dabbled in many things from paper making to now jewelry making. I love trying it all. I am finding it doesn't really matter so much what I am doing as long as I have a creative outlet. I think I need to allow myself to to take a crooked creative path and explore as much as I can because learning and trying new things are also something that truly helps my soul flourish. Hence the reason this blog was born. This is my record of my journey and I am so thankful that you are all here to share your stories with me as well!

On another note: I apologize for the drought in blog posts as of late. I have been sick, again. This time being the third time in a little over a month. The last two illnesses were literally back to back. I figured my body was trying to tell me something when I got sick the first time and thought I was listening by slowing down. I guess maybe I didn't listen hard enough.