Why Try Painting

Painting can offer women gained self-esteem and confidence they did not know they possessed. It can be an excellence source of relaxation and rejuvenation.


Painting will allow a woman to associate creativity with every aspect of her life. Because of painting, many women find pleasure in music, reading, writing, sewing, gardening and much more. Through painting, a greater awareness of the beauty in life is uncovered.


Greater self-development occurs through art. Art is universal; it benefits everybody and every business. It is the most effective way to connect across language and cultural barriers. Painting will rejuvenate your heart and soul as well as refresh your mind.



 Winton Oil Studio Set 620

Engaging Our Creativity

Lots of women have impressive creative ability, weather they are able to perform challenging pieces of music, create captivating paintings or star in a play and hold the limelight in a staged performance.

For many of us somewhere along the way our priorities shifted to afford a particular lifestyle that seems much easier with a traditional job and many times this means we stop holding the limelight on the stage, our paints are put away, we stop playing our favorite musical instrument and our creative writing goes into speeches rather than novels.

It is understandable why some of us stop engaging in playful activities to focus on the practical. After all, it is important for us to do our jobs, take care for our loved ones and pay our mortgages, etcetera. All of this can be exhausting when we do not take time to nurture ourselves. Do you remember a time when you engaged in a creative project that gave you a sense of deep satisfaction?

For some of us it is a matter of giving something up and for others, it’s about never attempting something new. In either case, it is as if part of us doesn’t trust we can have a creative identity and handle the necessary practical things we must attend to in our daily living. We may even think in order for us to get something meaningful out of our creativity we have to be committed to perfection.

Without recommending abandoning your daily commitments to your family to nurture your creativity, there is a way to personally satisfying a level of engagement with your creativity you can introduce into your life. In fact, engaging in creative pursuits, even in some small way can positively feed back into the practical tasks of life. Once we begin thinking creatively, we see new ways of doing things more easily and we can find ways to obtain greater satisfaction from the mundane.

The benefits of creative thinking are amazing. Engaging in your creativity can inspire you to stretch in other areas of your life, personally and professionally. Personal creativity is a very important quality in any business and is necessary to generate new ideas and present them in compelling ways. Creativity in problem solving can lead to more satisfying results than relying on knowledge alone. In addition, developing your own creativity can assist you in seeing that quality in other people.

If you think there isn’t any use in starting something you won’t continue doing, try setting some time aside everyday or once a week just for enjoyment. Although it isn’t necessary, you may want to look into signing up for a class that will feed your creative spirit. Or you may want a coach who will assist you in developing an action plan to ensure your creativity has a place and priority in your schedule. However you decide to engage your creativity, it is important you take action.

What is stopping you from engaging your creativity in your life? Whatever once inspired you or if there is something you have always wanted to try, find the level of engagement that works in your life to see how your life will be nourished by it.

Beginning Hand Drumming: 
 Beginning Hand Drumming

The Cool Art of Masks

Masks have been around since ancient times and have been worn for performance, entertainment, to disguise, conceal or protect the wearer. They have been used in ceremony, storytelling and dramatic enactment.

The wearable image of a face created in a mask can be used for it’s expressive potential in enactment and ritual. Masks are a universal art form that generally evokes power, magic and mystery for both the wearer and the viewer.

Crating a mask from scratch or decorating a pre-made mask can lead to exploring one’s persona. Mask making invites the artist to explore the persona they reveal or conceal from the world.

Through the art of mask making we can access our creativity and boost our self-confidence. Masks can bring consciousness to how the we see our self or what we fantasize we would like to be. Since masks have an outside and an inside, we can consider portraying how we really feel on the inside of a mask and how we feel others see us on the out side of the mask we create. Mask making can be a profound, revealing and personally liberating experience.

In closing, masks can be used to tell our personal story or to enact a dramatic global/political tragedy or to heal us spiritually, emotionally and/or physically.

To see Party Masks:
 Party Masks (Twenty to Make)

Doll Making - The Art of Empowerment

Doll making is an ancient art that serves many purposes. Civilizations throughout the ages created figures in their own images because they believed their “dolls” held symbolic meaning and supernatural influence.

The first doll makers believed their lifelike creations linked them to having and controlling life.  

Women can have a profound experience when they engage in creating a doll for them self or someone else. Doll making is a potent tool that can be used for self-growth, manifestation and healing.

To venture into this art form the artist can look for doll making supplies in unlikely places such as the kitchen, bathroom, garage or basement. Once the items have been gathered the artist can begin assembling them or she can get together with other women for an afternoon of doll making.

The dolls created could become an encouragement or self-affirming doll or it could bring clarity to something that is going on inside of the individual and provide an opportunity of empowerment.

To see Creative Cloth Doll Making click on image:
 Creative Cloth Doll Making: New Approaches for Using Fibers, Beads, Dyes, and Other Exciting Techniques

Milagros Art

Milagros art is usually made from aluminum sheet metal or recycled aluminum cans, but can be made from a vast variety of materials such as felt, paper, clay, glass, wood, found objects, etc.

Milagros are small metal charms that can depict religious symbols or other symbols found in many areas of Latin America, particularly in Mexico and Peru.These charms can also be found in Europe and are referred to as Exvotos, which means offerings.

The word “Milagro” means “miracle”. Milagros often depict arms, legs, women praying, farm animals and a wide range of other symbols that are typically nailed or pinned to a cross or wooden statues of various saints. Sometimes these charms are hung with ribbon or threads from altars and shrines and they can also be worn or carried for protection or good luck.

Often women create Milagros Art as an expression of love for a loved one or to attract something to themselves, such as money, a new job, a new car, a new home or to complete a task or an endeavor they have embark on. Some women create Milagros to remind them of a loved one or a triumph they have experienced in their life. Milagros can also be used to make unique colorful jewelry.

To see Jewelry and Accessories from Everyday Objects click on image:
  Jewelry and Accessories from Everyday Objects: 19 Unique Projects Inspired by Found Objects and Ready-Made Materials

Haute Trash Fashion - The High Fashion Art of Recycling

Trash fashion is created from debris; it is the conversion of trash into useful and fashionable objects.

Haute Trash Fashion Shows are high fashioned events created to bring attention to our landfills, which exceed their capacities thousands of times over and have become virtual cities unto themselves. Haute Trash Fashion events raise awareness for the need to recycle.

Many communities throughout the US hold their version of the Haute Trash Fashion Show to bring attention to and raise money for abused women, children and animals, as well as continuing to raise consciousness for the importance of recycling.

There is 3.5 million tons of toxic and dangerous plastic floating between San Francisco and Hawaii; this is twice the size of Texas. 80% of this toxic stew originated on land and could have easily been prevented.

Trash fashion shows illustrate the ability to reuse and recycle through creative and humorous exhibitions. They reshape societal views on beauty, recycling and ultimately trash.

Outfits are designed from discarded materials such as construction fencing, food packages, beverage containers, inner tubes, aluminum pop-tops and other salvageable materials.

Creative citizens and local artists create their own unique designs from nearby dumpsters, using satire to highlight this unconventional approach to going green. If you are an inclined designer with eco-sensibilities show off your talent at a local or national Haute Trash Fashion Show.

To see The Hip Handbag Book click on image:
 The Hip Handbag Book: 25 Easy-to-Make Totes, Purses, and Bags

The Art of Knitting

The origins of Knitting are hard to trace simply because fibers are biodegradable, however there are several theories. Some assume knitting began in Persia and others believe it started in Israel, Jordan and Syria. While others are convinced knitting started in the mountains of North Africa, Japan or China. Another theory is knitting grew out of the knitting of fishnets.

Women choose to pick up knitting needles for different reasons. Some women long to create while others want to make visual expressions of love for the people they care about.

 Knitting can also have a spiritual quality that allows women to feel more in tune with their spiritual self.

Something comforting and magical happens for some women when they knit because knitting is about the hands creating something visual, which gives the brain a brake. This break can assist in solving a problem that is being experienced in another area of life. Knitting can allow the subconscious to be tapped in a way that is normally unavailable to us in our busy lives and knitting can be done almost anywhere and any time, it is socially accepted without appearing to be rude.

Today yarn is created from so many rich and lavish colors, natural and synthetic fibers that permit knitting needles and the hands to create beautiful lively colored sweaters, throws, scarves, hats, etc.

Why not take a break from your busy life by picking up a pair of knitting needles and some yarn to create something rich in color that is soft and silky to make you feel good?

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 Cha Cha Scarf Knitting Kit Copper Pennies By The Each