What will you create in your world today?



Creative Space

Donald M. Rattner

My Creative Space

Your home is more than a castle; it's a catalyst for creative ideas. Learn how to design your space to stimulate ideas and how simple and accessible techniques for shaping your home can boost creativity and spark innovation.

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

The Art of Seeing: Beyond the Surface

Seeing deeply isn't just about what's visible — it's about perceiving the layers most people overlook. It's about recognizing the weight of history in a weathered door frame, the whisper of a story in an abandoned street, the presence of something beyond words at a glance.



InterACTive

Cookie Fortune Maker (CFM)

Cookie Fortune Maker Writing Prompt

The Dejitaru o mi kuji taipu, or The World's Oldest Microblogging Platform, rightly takes its seat in the history of social media! Play with the tool now to exercise your creative writing or to make your own printable fortune messages!

Positive PlayFULLness

Positive Playfullness

funmire

Embrace Your Inner Child

Recall the carefree days of childhood, when the world was your playground, and laughter echoed through the air. That youthful spirit still resides within you, and it's time to reconnect with it.

Creativity Coaching

Brainstorms

Eric Maisel

The Logic of Brainstorms

To be the ethical, engaged, creative, successful, and lively human being you intend to be, you need your brain. If you don't use your brain you will find yourself trapped in trivialities, condemned to impulsivity, led around by anxiety, and duller and sadder than you have any need to be.



Screen-Free Fun
Popcorn

Ira Verant's FREE! Popcorn Book

Doodling Popcorn Boosts Your IQ

Doodling, which involves sketching seemingly random patterns or shapes, is a form of spontaneous and subconscious creative expression. Contrary to the conventional belief that it hinders productivity, research indicates that doodling can enhance concentration and memory retention.

Creativity

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

Harnessing AI for Artistic Expansion

As an artist, my journey has always been about pushing boundaries — exploring the unseen, uncovering deeper layers of meaning, and continuously evolving my style. But in a world where originality feels elusive and inspiration can sometimes stall, I've found an unlikely yet powerful ally in AI.

Profiles & Interviews

Profiles of Creative Empowerment

Profiles of Creative Empowerment

Tool Box, Ladder and Lightning: The 3S's of the Co-Creator Series

I'm a total believer that when an achievable idea clicks, it happens quickly and effortlessly (at least at the beginning) and then it sticks. It's as if it was pre-designed, pre-orchestrated, pre-choreographed in the waiting room of ideas.



Writing

Perfect Personal Essay

Perfect Personal Essay

Here's Why You Have to Make Up with Your Siblings

If you are the expert and you don't show me your broken heart — that you have been mortified at a dinner party, that you gossiped about someone who was standing within earshot, — I can't find myself in your story.

Creativity Coaching

Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe

Rita Farin

Georgia O'Keeffe and the Creative Process

"Who wants to spend their life painting rabbits and copper bowls?" asks the 91-year-old Georgia O'Keeffe in her 1977 documentary. O'Keeffe stopped painting because she didn't feel like she had her own style.

Adventures

Foreshadow

ADVENTure #9

Halls Deck History + Foreshadow Card

Existing in the Northern Hemisphere at least since the 14th Century, the highly-intuitive, suggestive, The Halls™ Deck is used by skilled practitioners of the Arts and Crafts coterie to interpret, forecast, and crochet symbols, motifs, and typography into affirming messages.



Humor

Fortune Cards

Madam Bedazzle's Tarotble Readings

Fortunately // Unfortunately Card Pair

Madam Bedazzle says there's some important lessons to be had around fortunes and hones in on the common pairing of fortunately // unfortunately in the the game of optimistic one-upping. As always, remember Bedazzle's advice is always well-meaning, even if a little iffy.

SoulCollage®

SoulCollage

SoulCollage® Prompt

Calm the Stirrings of Impatience

Spend some time listening for your own inner voice of impatience. Remember that it is only a small part of you. Notice how it makes itself known to you in your body.

Children's Creativity

Fostering Creativity in Children

Fostering Creativity in Children

The Secret Ingredient to Teaching Creativity

I'm consistently reminded that my first impressions of a child's idea are often way off the mark. What looked to me like a dinosaur turned out to be a robot; what I thought was a puppy scampering was meant to be a unicorn.



9 Modern Day Muses

Bea Silly

Modern Day Muses

Bea Silly: Fun is an Elixir of Spontaneous Ideas

Bea Silly is the Muse of play, laughter, and dance. Bea Silly's name means bringing play, fun, laughter, and freedom back to the creative process. On Bea-ing Silly: Solutions that seemed so evasive earlier appear effortlessly in the midst of play.

More Muses

Euterpe

Invoking the Muses

Making Marvelous New Music with Euterpe

The Athenian muses were the nine sister goddesses of imagination, inspiration, and the arts in ancient Greek mythology. Euterpe, the Athenian Goddess of lyric poetry and music has many gifts to share.

Spiritual

The Holy Wild

Danielle Dulsky

Our Wild Art and Unbridled Sensuality: Embodying the Crone-Mermaid

To be human is to be tasked to create. We are born with the capacity to feel deeply for a reason, with the instinct to make something new out of the old and birth some great majesty from the union between body and imagination. To place restrictions on a woman's sensuality is also to restrain her creativity.



Art Making
Series

Paints

Robert Joyner

Explore Loose Watercolors & Abstract Art

Full-time artist and instructor Robert Joyner specialzes in blending quality fundamentals with unconventional painting techniques. Instead of creating predictable art, he opts to catch lightning in a bottle! Let him show you how to paint loose watercolors and abstract art with acrylic and mixed media.

Creativity

Creative Outlets

Creativity 1-2-3

Creative Outlets

How did you discover your favorite mediums and modes? Florence Scovel Shinn • A Lifetime of Creative Opportunity • Paying Attention to Possibilities with Aha-phrodite • Melding Passion and Purpose • Prompts: Walking Poems.