Suzi Blu's New Release

Be the first to register for Live, Laugh, Love Retreats Creatives -- Celebrating Sisterhood retreat on May 1st and you will WIN your own copy of the just-released book by Suzi Blu.  This book is full of inspiration and practical instruction on how to create the beautiful mixed media girls that Suzi is so well-known for. 

Not familiar with Creatives -- Celebrating Sisterhood?  Follow the link and check us out.  It is an art retreat that will be held next April.  Registration opens on May 1st!  That's just one more day away! 

Are you Ready to WIN?

May 1st will mark the open registration for Creatives - Celebrating Sisterhood Retreat!  If you aren't familiar with this art retreat you can click on the name and follow the link to Live, Laugh, Love Retreats.  Here is a little video telling you a little bit about my retreat business:

I'll be back this weekend to share all of our Creatives Retreat open registration hoopla!  (Hint--there will be goodies to win!)  TGIF!

Earth Day

This time of year is perfect for cleaning out your closets and taking all of your unused clothing to Goodwill!  Do you celebrate Earth Day in another way?  I know when I was an active Girl Scout leader we used to meetup at a local park with garbage bags and clean up.  What are you doing?

Going Up on Etsy

I had a wonderful time at the Creation Craze Papercrafting Expo this past weekend!  So many faces and tons of papercrafting fun!  I'm planning on listing all of my booth items on my Linnie Blooms etsy site later this week.

And, rumor has it they are planning to run this event in the fall!  I'll be sure to keep you posted once a date is set.  Time for me to make more new products;D

Beyond Paper

Do you want to learn how to expand upon your love of papercrafting?  I love papercrafting -- scrapbooking, cardmaking, altering items with papercrafts.  But now I'm even more in love because I create mixed media art! 

Mixed media art allows you to play with all the fun, exciting tools and mediums that there are out there.  If you would like to experience what mixed media is all about, why not join me for my local monthly classes at Polkadots and More in Mukwonago, WI?  We meet the first Weds. of the month from 6-9pm. 

For more info or to register, go to:  http://www.meetup.com/Create-and-Bloom-Mixed-Media/

Will I Be Seeing You This Weekend?

I've been frantically getting prepared for this weekend's Creation Craze Papercrafting Expo.  It is going to be so much fun!  Friday night is close to sold out, so I know it will be a blast!  I'm looking forward to debuting some new products as well:)

I hope I will see you this weekend:)

Balancing Life

Lately, I feel like life has been one huge balancing act.  You would think since my daughters are adults, that I would have so much more free time to myself.  Well, yes, BUT, you still need to be constantly making decisions on how you spend your time.  I have a tendancy to push myself to multitask 24 hours a day. 

I literally have to talk myself down, so that I can sit and be quiet.  It's in these quiet times that I get even more inspiration about my life.  I recently took an ecourse that involved sketching.  I've always been a doodler, but I now have a new appreciation of sketching.  I never thought I could sketch before (because that would take some sort of talent), but I'm kind of surprising myself.  Thank you Junelle Jacobsen, for opening my eyes to this new form of relaxation! 

I hope you have a balanced Thursday!

It Starts with Paper...

Good morning!  I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.  I was busy, busy, busy making and preparing for the Creation Craze Papercrafting Expo, which is in 12 short days -- April 13-14th.  Since this is a papercrafting expo, I'm sure everyone is expecting handmade cards and scrapbooking.  But, I like to challenge myself, so I've been pushing my thoughts to see what else I can come up with starting with paper.  I thought I would show you a few this week.

Here's an example of how I took a project that involved paper-piecing a picture together, and turned it into something quite useful -- a step stool.  I created the paper-piecing picture in one of my art journals during a class I was taking.  I then scanned the picture, printed it on cotton fabric and decoupaged it onto the stool.

To see more of my "paper" products, I hope you will come by the Expo April 13-14th.  Here's the website for all the details:  Creation Craze website.