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Creative Project Inspire! Create! Wall Art Collage By Maria Chatzi  A step-by-step tutorial for a creative spring collage featuring a pearl bird nest, musical note leaves, and lace tree branches. Read more » SoulCollaging® with Cancer Cancer and the Wounded Body By Anne Marie Bennett  I wasn’t really prepared for the trials that my body went through during my first cancer journey. After two lumpectomies and a lymph node dissection, my chest and left arm were never the same. I knew several women who had had mastectomies at about the same time as my lumpectomies, and I felt guilty whenever I caught myself complaining about how different I looked. Read more » Interview  Author Michael Bungay StanierQ: What creative challenges have you faced, and what worked for you? A: The usual ones of distraction, doubt, rejection, confusion, laziness, shoddiness, the cruel hand of fate and so on. [What worked:] Being persistent. Finding my own voice. Creating stuff just for the sake of creating it, because I think it's awesome. Breaking rules. Spotlight  Stimulating CreativityJeannine McGlade and Andrew Pek are authors, speakers, trainers, and thought leaders in making innovation and creativity a habit. Their book, Stimulated! Habits to Spark Your Creative Genius at Work helps individuals from stay-at-home parents to CEOs get out of a creative rut and release their creative energy. Sample a selection of articles and excerpts from Stimulated! to spark your creative genius. Adventure Writing Prompts Travel to France By Kristi Tencarre  The ancient land of the Gauls, the playground of Marie Antoinette, the famous city beloved of so many, this is the France of today. Monuments still stand preserving the past and whispering the future. Enter into the scenes depicted in these pictures and create your own stories. Leave your own footprints across a nation famous for lavender, cheese & wine ... among other things. Read more »
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April Fool's Fun World's Hardest Puzzles April Fool's Jokes! By Chris Dunmire
Want to play the funniest, most creative and harmless joke ever? Give one of these word-find puzzles to your ‘smart’ friends or children and then sit back and watch them try to find the words in the letter grid. They can't. It's impossible! Each week between now and April 1, 2014, I'm giving away free copies of my WORLD'S HARDEST PUZZLES BOOK. To enter this random drawing, simply send me your top three ways (the more creative, the better) you intend help fill the world with more smiles this year. Write "PUZZLES DRAWING" in the subject line. No worries, your info will remain confidential and Chris will directly contact all winners. More about the book » Nurturing Young Imaginations By Abby Connors
One of my favorite books is called “The Art Spirit.” It was written by the early twentieth-century American artist Robert Henri in 1923. “The Art Spirit” is a collection of Henri’s lectures and portions of his correspondence with his students, and it contains insightful, beautiful, and inspiring ideas about not only painting, but the arts in general. Read more » Magic Crayon Journal #6 By Patricia Mosca
he Rolling Stones sang the line "Time is on my side...oh yes it is." The question is, do we allow it to be? Most of us believe that we need to get things done very quickly. That if we hurry than we must be making the most of our time and our life. But what happens when we continue to run full speed ahead? What happens when we put more value on the act of doing rather than being? Read more » Fast Fiction By Denise Jaden
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Writing Prompts  Story Starters for Saint Patrick's and April Fool's DayBy Maria Chatzi Are you suffering from writer’s block? Do you need to sharpen your creative writing skills? Set aside some time every day, for ten days, and do some writing with these story starters for Saint Patrick’s and April Fool’s Day. They will challenge your imagination to run wild. They may give you a great idea for a new story or they could be the twist to a story you’re already writing. Read More » The Zone The Decision Zone By Tom Evans  Some may well have had decisions made for them. An agent might well have got them a deal or a gig that shot them into the spotlight. Many an entrepreneur finds their niche after being made redundant. We know that the decisions we make today influence all our tomorrows. Read more » Creative Teaching How Do You Transform Into a Creative Teacher? By Stav Papadopoulos  It seems as if creative teachers are in perpetual motion; always moving forward, always quick to adjust to newly established circumstances and forever coming up with fresh and inspiring approaches to tasks. With the autonomy they enjoy and the air of confidence they exude, they leap from one creative activity to the next with amazing ease and speed. Read more » 2014 Creativity Conference  Can Teachers Be Happy and Does That Really Impact Students and Education?By Patricia Rose Upczak Teachers can be powerful, focused, secure people who are willing to protect and teach the charges in their classrooms. They usually enjoy the challenges of teaching. Read more » Careers in the Arts  100 Amazing & Inspiring Creativity InterviewsBy Various Authors With hundreds of interviews published on the Creativity Portal® Web site through the years, none are more insightful, encouraging, and inspiring than this special series of Creative Careers In the Arts interviews published between 2006 and 2011. Read more » |
