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Questions from readers. Answers that may help.

How to build kites...From time to time Creativity Portal has received questions from readers regarding the topics we promote on our site. Sometimes we could help, and other times we simply pointed people in the right direction to find the answers on their own. These are some of the answers to questions we've been asked related art, crafts, writing, and creativity.

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Individual Questions

Converting a Painting to Needlepoint
How do I turn photos into cross-stitch designs?

Artist Retreat Day
Where can I download Linda Dessau's Artist Retreat Day Guidebook?

Can we republish your Web site projects?
Can we use your projects in our newsletter?

Wire Art Projects for Kids 8-17
Do you have any sample projects for kid's wire sculpture?

Writing for a Greeting Card Company
Do you have any information about writing for a greeting card company?

Web Clipart for Print Projects?
Where can I download free Web graphics for my print project?

Pastel & Chalk Art
How to affix a drawing so it doesn't smear.

Wire Sculpture
What wires not to mix?

Making Collage Art
Where can I find collage materials?

Using Art to Inspire
How to help children gain an interest in the arts?

Origami Flower Corsages
Does the Creativity Portal have instructions?

Perforated Bookmarks
Where can I buy perforated paper stock for bookmarks?

Selling Yourself/Products/Services on the Web
5 must-haves for promoting your products or services online.

4th of July Parade Flags
How can I make my own?

Free Party Invitations
Where can I find and cheaply send them?

Quilting / Beading Project
Do you have information to help me with my research?

Bookmark Templates
Do you have any I can download for free?

How to Build Kites
How can I make a kite like Benjamin Franklin's?

It's Inappropriate / Offensive
Can you modify your Web content for us?

Paging Creative Authors
What software makes bookmarks?

Loving a Girl's Calendar
Where can I make calendars online?

Reprint Rights & Copyright Laws
Can we reprint your articles in our free newsletter?

Greeting Around to Promoting Oneself
How can my artistic English friend get his captivating watercolor notecards of London out to the public?

New Creativity Articles
Listening: Basic to Creativity and to Business
One of the most important disciplines in developing individual creativity is listening.
Art of the Song: Creativity — Intelligent and Trustworthy
The common idea is that some are creative and some are not. We’ve confused the concept of talent of creativity. Our longing to create doesn’t come from a tendency towards a particular talent, but an innate need to manifest the truth of who we are.
Creativity Cookies: One Full Flavour
Choosing and completing one creative project while enjoying it to its fullest flavour.
Creative Abstracting
Because sense experience and sense imagery are rich and complex, creative people in all disciplines also use abstracting as an essential tool.
Creative Photo Inspiration: Find a Patch of Sunlight
With sunlight as my guide, I am more open to creative epiphanies that may be right in front of my face.
Business Success, the Creative Way
Business requires sustainability. Business seeks niches. Sustainability and niche marketing are achieved through creative practices.
Scar Tissue: Celebrating Failure
We all bare the scars of failure. Life breaks everyone. However, some people end up stronger in the broken places.
Creative Imaging and Enhanced Insight
Is creativity a learnable skill? And can anyone learn to perform those extraordinary feats we traditionally think of as limited to a few talented individuals?
How to Avoid Prematurely Killing the Next Big Idea
New ideas look strange. They seem impractical. They make us feel uncomfortable, and they change the status quo.
Rethinking Thinking
An introduction to a new series by David Jiles, Ph.D. that presents a dozen secrets of the mind shared among all for whom we identify as creative geniuses: Einstein, Hemingway, Picasso, Tesla, Beethoven and countless others throughout the centuries. Read the first secret: Observation.

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