Set Your Vision for Living a Creative Life
This is a collection of videos offering advice for setting a vision of the creative life you want to live
top of page
A Blog About Art Making and Life Making and Getting Better at Both
Search
Kristen
Jan 263 min read
Always Learning: The Joy of a Growth Mindset
An experience and example of the power of a growth mindset
Kristen
Jan 192 min read
Connecting Your Purpose to Creativity
Consider how you connect your purpose with your creativity
Kristen
Jan 124 min read
Eight Questions to Help You Find Your Purpose
When you're ready to define your purpose, these questions can help
Kristen
Jan 53 min read
What's Your Why? 2024 Edition
Eight approaches to describing your why or your purpose in life
Kristen
Dec 29, 20233 min read
Creativity Mantras: Actions for living a creative life
Consider these eight mantras that encourage the actions that lead to the creative life you want.
Kristen
Dec 22, 20233 min read
A Fourth Thing I Learned About Creativity in 2023: Try New Things
Trying new things is at the heart of creativity. Say yes to playing with new and different methods, practices, and tools.
Kristen
Dec 15, 20233 min read
A Third Thing I Learned About Creativity in 2023: Slow Down, Take Your Time
Creativity takes time. Learn how to make peace with that and enjoy the slow process of making good art.
Kristen
Nov 24, 20234 min read
Meditation as Self-Care: Charge Your Health and Creativity Through Mindfulness Practices
Get an overview of meditation and mindfulness practices for better health and more creativity.
Kristen
Nov 17, 20233 min read
Food as Self-Care: Nutrition, Fuel & Joy
Make a few simple commitments to better food and eating habits for health, happiness, and creativity
Kristen
Nov 3, 20234 min read
Self-Care of the Creative Spirit: Activities to boost happiness and creativity
These activities will boost your happiness and your creativity.
Kristen
Oct 27, 20233 min read
Collage Art for Grown Ups: Creativity Plus Glue
Collage art is accessible to almost everyone, young and old. Learn how it started, what it looks like, and why you should try it.
Kristen
Sep 29, 20236 min read
Design Thinking a Creative Life
Find out how to apply the design thinking method and mindset to designing a more creative life.
Kristen
Sep 1, 20232 min read
Goodbye Bacon & Wine
A post introducing a change from a stand alone blog called Bacon & Wine to a new site and blog called Pondering Acres.
Kristen
Jul 21, 20232 min read
Keep Creativity Joyful
Creativity is supposed to be fun. If it's not, it may be time to step away from what you're working on. Make your art, chase joy.
Kristen
Jul 7, 20233 min read
Finding Flow and Happiness in Immersion
An introduction to flow, a sign of creative immersion and the key to happiness. Learn how researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described it.
Kristen
Mar 5, 20234 min read
Self-directed pep talk
Last week, I signed up to take Bonnie Christine's Immersion course. It's an 8-week self-directed course covering everything a person...
Kristen
Jan 29, 20235 min read
Getting Yourself Published
Self-publishing through Amazon's KDP is a good practice activity for creatives. Start simply to see if you find your flow.
Kristen
Dec 22, 20222 min read
Liberated Multipotentialite
While writing my last blog post about the artfulness of soap making, I learned a new word: multipotentialite. The simplest definition of...
Kristen
Dec 11, 20223 min read
Is soapmaking art?
For reasons I can't explain (or at least, I won't take the time to over-analyze and explain right now), it's important to me to call...
Do the best you can
until you know better. Then when you know better,
do better.
Maya Angelou
bottom of page