Today I made a seed packet for my bell pepper seeds out of newspaper and tape. The seeds are very dry; I set this husk aside a couple of months ago.

Today I made a skirt out the bottom of a denim sundress that was too short, and the top of a pair of fleece pants.

Today I made mittens. I had some leftover fabric from when I made the kids; quilts this past Christmas and decided to use it for my mittens. This fabric is so soft and fluffy and warm. I put the fluffy side on the inside. The cuffs I reconstructed from an old jacket my sons used [...]

Thing-a-day is a yearly creative sprint that is held every February and brings together hundreds of creative minds. The idea is simple: sign up is open to anyone and participants commit to create one new thing a day every day for the entire month of February and post it on the collective blog.
Participants can work [...]

“I learned to recognize the qualities I admire in myself in others.”
How I did it: I figure out where all the people like me are hiding…they are hiding in plain sight doing the things I like to do! So I did it by going places that involve the things I am interested in doing. Also [...]

Difficult as it is to remember, it is our work that creates the market, not the market that creates our work.
~Julia Cameron
Lightbulb! I am re-doing The Artist’s Way and when I read this it struck me with it’s truth. This is so true. I think a big part of the reason why I have gotten [...]

This looks interesting:
Staccato is all about microfiction.
Launched in Athens, Georgia, in 2005 as a semiannual print magazine, the editors soon realized that their small print-runs weren’t enough and they could deliver microfiction to more readers more efficiently (not to mention cheaper) if they focused their efforts online. Relaunched in 2009 out of Brooklyn, Staccato is [...]

I needed this big plastic jar for something, so decided to take the pennies inside up to the grocery store which has a Coinstar machine. Coinstars, in case you don’t know, are machines that count out your change. Then you get either a gift certificate for full value or the cash minus 9%. I was [...]

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
To him,
a touch is a blow,
a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover,
a lover is a god,
and failure is death.
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity [...]

I like to blog about other creative people often. Sculptor John Leon lives in my hometown of Cincinnati, and his work is very good. I can’t recall how I came across his work, I think someone had a pic of one of his statues on flickr. More info about John from his site:
He started sculpting [...]

Today I’m making final touches to the Futuristic Motherhood book, including my own story by Mercury Lynch. This weekend I need to email all the writers and coordinate some things.

I used to redirect my domain for my Mercury Lynch stuff here, but since then have done only a few posts about science fiction. Mercury is more than my pen name for science fiction, she’s my alter ego LOL. So now my sci-fi stuff will be on Night Visions, the blog of Mercury Lynch. enjoy!

I just got into Sudoku this year, thanks to my husband. He was always doing the ones in the newspaper, after awhile it piqued my curiosity. I tend not to like puzzles of this sort because I am a very slow thinker, but I do like numbers and sudoku is actually quite fun. It took [...]

I burned a bunch of my old journal/diary notherbooks. I felt such a sense of freedom and relief watching them burn. but also, sadness.

Pic of me at our cabin in Maine. This trip was just what I needed; I feel mentally refreshed and back on track.
see more pics here