So I LOVE design/home/lifestyle magazines. Okay, I love ANY magazine but those are my very favorite crack of choice. I get great ideas from them, for decorating and for my business (which is how I justify them into my budget). Super stuff, pretty pictures but every damn time there's one of those "how to decorate on the cheap!" and it turns out to involve you strolling to your local fabulous designer level flea market and happening upon some Queen Anne chairs with a few tears on the seat which you buy for $100 and VOILA! Some fabu fabric and you have brilliant new chairs!

Uhhh...okay then. Except the flea markets and garage sales I go to are chock full of crap. No matter how much spray paint and fabu fabric is applied - it will still be crap.

Or even better - go into your attic/basement and see what hidden treasures are there! We'll show you how to spray paint them and turn those army cots into a fabulous coffee table!! Great idea, except no one in my family is or was an antiques dealer or collector. They're not world travelers nor have they ever been on safari or lived in Africa or had a distant relative who happened to be the dude who invented legs on tables.

If someone would like to show me how to turn an old black plastic CD holder and three wobbly kitchen chairs into something worthy of a magazine layout, THEN I will be impressed.

Could I HAVE enough to do?!

A rhetorical question to be read in the style of Chandler Bing; I'm only happy when I have too much to do. It makes me feel wanted, needed, necessary (my moment of self-psychoanalyzing for the day) and yes, creative. Like we claim a messy desk means a fertile mind? My messy life means I'm full of...

Hang on.

This blog is for all things creative in this bee's life; writing fiction, freelancing my non-fiction, designing and making jewelry, handbags and whatever else I might come up with, decorating on the thrift, all things do-it-yourself and stuff. I'm going to write stuff down, show pictures - you write stuff back, show pictures. I fully believe that creativity shared is creativity squared.

Did I mention my interest in creative catch phrases?