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FREE
Printable 2007 Calendar  Posted
December-18-2006
Featuring Monthly Creativity Inspiring Quotes
One of my favorite projects I do for the Creativity Portal
Web site each year is design a printable monthly quote calendar
using snippets from actual articles published on the site in
the previous calendar year.
You don't need to be famous or rich or brilliant to be quoteworthy
in my book — you just need to speak honest truth from
your soul and it will resonate in the vast sea of humankind.
I'm a fish in that sea, by the way.
The quotes I snagged for each 2007 month have been inspiring
me all day today as I've toiled long and hard on finishing
this calendar before the new year arrives. For example, one
of my favorite quotes about "truth"
is by Lynda Lehmann from her article ART
and POWER:
"The truth wears six billion faces, each with
different life circumstances, a different life script,
and a different mode of emotional being."
Wow, that's powerful, isn't it? And if you liked that one,
there's plenty more thought-provoking quotes embedded into
this calendar o' mine. Do check out my FREE
Creativity Inspiring 2007 Quote Calendar and feel free
to pass along the link to all of the calendar enthusiasts you
know. Hurry though, because the clock is ticking down to 2007
as we speak! Time is literally sprinkling into the other side
of that hourglass. Don't let another day go by! <smile> • |
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A
Chris-Must Story Posted
December-16-2006
AND a FREE Merry Christmas Tree Coloring
Page!
"A stitch in time saves NINE days until Christmas!" How's
that for a mixed-up
cliche? This week has been a working example of how one creativity
enthusiast (that would be me) has built upon previous projects to
produce more fun creative stuff. Of course, the theme this week has
been Christmas tree-ativity. ... |
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Free
Printable Christmas "Christmastreess" Coloring
Page
Posted
December-15-2006
Based on Nit Wits #29 (PDF 60KB)
This free printable stressed Christmas Tree "Christmastreess" coloring
page is based on my Nit Wits comic #29 of the same title and
is all about the Christmas holiday stress. ... |
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Reducing
the Christmas Stress Posted
Dec-14-2006
"Let it Flow, Let it Flow, Let it Go"
It's 11 days until Christmas — are you feeling the Christmas-crunch
stress yet? Are thoughts of crowded shopping malls and imperfect
gift wrapping seams invading your dreams? Are you baked out
on cookie making and ornament hanging? Are you ready to create
some new Christmastime traditions?
If you answered "YES!" to any of the above, I encourage
you to read Anne Marie Bennett's article Shed
Some Inner Light On Your Holidays AND another inspiring
piece by Marcia Phillips titled Let
it Flow, Let it Flow, Let it Go on reducing the Christmas
stress. Neither of these is a quick and easy "7 Ways to
Reduce Your Holiday Stress" kind of article. Instead,
they cut right down to the soul of the matter — your
soul — and promote doing what feels right in YOUR heart
during the holiday season. Marcia is absolutely right: "It's
your holiday." Experience the true joy of the season — the
joy that's right within you. • |
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Christmas
Ornament Crafty Gift Tags Posted
Dec-13-2006
For My Creative, Frugal Friendsters
If you're needing a quick and easy way to print your own gift
tags at home or in the office for those last-minute gifts,
my fun Christmas Ornaments and Happy Snowman gift tags are
the perfect solution. And they're free!
Yes, my Christmas Ornament gift tags are just right for Secret
Santa Gifting, office gift exchanges, and cheapskates who don't
want to shell out their own dough to buy their own gift tags.
Well, it's true! But 'tis the season for giving and all...
<smileysmirk>. It's my gift to you, dear reader. • |
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Christmas
Word Search Puzzle Posted
Dec-10-2006
For Creative, Playful Brains
Isn't it amazing that no matter how many e-mails are written,
books are published, or paragraphs deleted, we never run out
of letters? How cool is that?! Case in point, my latest creative
puzzle creation is built upon the letter. Letters which form
hidden words embedded in a grid of other letters to form a
puzzle. When the brain is asked to solve a puzzle (or find
a solution to a problem), it goes into this neat little mode
called CREATIVITY. Why not stretch your creativity muscles
today and print
my free Christmas puzzle. Then do it. Can you find all
of the hidden words? Right down to the last letter? I challenge
you! • |
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Reflections
in a Gettysburg Hotel Lobby Posted
Dec-8-2006
Journal Entry: Wednesday, November 22, 2006,
8:20 a.m.
I am sitting in the lobby area of the Holiday Inn, right in
front of the registration desk in a carpeted area with plush
chairs in front of a gas-faux fireplace. I can feel the warmth
from the fire before me — it’s roaring and the
faint smell of holiday potpourri fills the air. ... |
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Warm & Fuzzy Days Posted
December-5-2006
7th Grade Fuzzy Doodles
Cold wintry midwest snowstorms make me thankful for warm blankets
and hot beverages. Which reminds me, I learned at least one
life-transferable skill in the seventh grade: how to draw Fuzzies.
Fuzzies are simply friendly soft-looking creatures with googly-eyes,
big noses, and smiling mouths. Thanks to a wonderfully eccentric
hipster of an art teacher, Mrs. S., Fuzzies used to postscript
my high school notes and snail mails to family members. I still
doodle Fuzzies today. I did the one above months ago and needed
to stick it in the Slush somewhere, so here you go. Maybe someday
I'll create a drawing lesson for it. Cute, isn't it?
MUSE, PA, UPDATE: Thanks to a reader named
Judy, I learned that Muse,
Pennsylvania "is an old coal mining community with
several churches, a small store, post office and the well-known
Italian club."
Wow, that reminded me of my recent travels to Bisbee, Arizona,
which I need to get a-writing about. Thank you, Judy! • |
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