Hello You Amazing Fabulous Creative Girls!!!

Oh yes we had SUPER creative fun last month at our July Creative GIRL playshop!!!!! I’ll be sharing more about it soon, but had to include this fun photo above … it makes me grin ear-to-ear whenever I see it! (It’s my screen saver 🙂

I’m posting to share our next Creative GIRL Playshop dates for middle school girls.

Our intro Creative GIRL playshop (6, 7, and 8 graders) will be Monday Sept 30th to Wednesday Oct 2nd, 10-3 pm. Cost is $110 per girl and includes all supplies except t-shirt and photos. I have 10 spaces in this program. (this program is for girls NEW to Creative GIRL.)

Oooh and for Creative GIRLS who’ve already experienced the INTRO playshop, I’m excited to announce a special 2-day playshop on Thursday October 3 and Friday 4th, 10-3 pm. I have awesome NEW creative projects, including journaling, jewelry making, sharing, shining, and together we’ll have some MORE colorful fun! Cost $80 including supplies. I have 10 seats remaining in this program. (Once a girl has done the Intro program, she can attend this program including earlier in the week.)

I offer a $10 sibling discount for sisters registering for the same session and also offer a “pay what you can” program so no girl will be denied creative fun due to financial constraints!

Contact me to reserve a space for either of these playshops or if you have any questions.

love and gratitude,

Last week a HUGE-ENORMOUS-GIGOOOOONTIC thing happened: one of my BIGGEST dreams came true: Creative G I R L was born.

I finally stopped believing that certain things needed to happen and let go and trusted that the time had come. I trusted that GIRLS would come … AND guess what?! They DID!!!!

The night before I had butterflies: I was so excited. I had been planning for weeks; planning the things we’d make, talk and share about, and the gems of wisdom (quotes) and journaling prompts. It was a ton of work, but JOY WORK that sent me to sleep with productive dreams and more butterflies.

My intention behind Creative G I R L is to offer a fun program for girls to create together while they gently become more aware of the power of their inner critic and other people’s opinions of them … and to CREATE ANYWAY. We talked about how much we enjoy being creative and that creativity comes in so many different forms. We talked about being creative for the personal joy of it, not just for other people’s approval.

We all have a right to creativity and self expression. Our world desperately NEEDS our children’s bright thoughts and original ideas. We need to do things to preserve and nurture their imaginative essence. So many things in our culture squash the creativity and joy out of us. We need an antidote: I say that antidote might be awareness and multiple opportunities to be creative simply for the joy of it.

I learned from these amazing creative girls and I am deeply grateful for their parents’ trust.

Here is the video montage, it’s a joy to me. I will always treasure this summer.

If your daughter was part of my first playshop, thank you for letting her be a part of Creative G I R L . And for you Creative GIRLS … thank you for sharing your special powers and ideas. You are CREATIVELY AWESOME!