100 Ways To Be Creative: Have An Art Picnic

100 Ways To Be Creative: Have An Art Picnic

#44 on my 100 Ways To Be Creative list is to have an art picnic. I decided to do this with my friend, Michelle, who now also lives in Maryland. The main middle ground between our houses is Laurel, so we tried to find a place to do it there. The first park we picked...

Monday Mailings

Monday Mailings

Happy Monday, everyone. I have a lot of mail to share. Mail is beautiful and I hope your mailboxes have been full of happy lately.   Incoming   Mini letter in a tiny capsule from Olivia Lovely incoming -- if anyone can identify the white postcard that is facing...

Wind Up Old Men

Wind Up Old Men

Last week I left a bunch of things that Bonnie Jeanne sent me around Federal Hill. Something I forgot to share were the wind-up toys. They're old men with canes, and I left them on a playground.

100 Ways To Be Creative: Take An Illusion Photo

100 Ways To Be Creative: Take An Illusion Photo

#26 on my 100 Ways To Be Creative list is to take an illusion type photo. I decided that I wanted to incorporate sidewalk chalk and my cartoon-like purse. For almost the entire photoshoot I was trying to make it seem like I was climbing up the stairs, and it just...

Making Federal Hill Fancy

Making Federal Hill Fancy

Earlier this week, the wonderful Post Muse sent me a fifteen pound box of wonder. It had things that she thought would be good for my street art. She was right! I was immediately inspired, and made little packages to leave around for people. There was a lot of stuff...

100 Ways To Be Creative: Collect Something Specific

100 Ways To Be Creative: Collect Something Specific

#8 on my 100 Ways To Be Creative list is to collect something very specific. For this, I kept thinking that I needed to pick something to start searching for at thrift stores, like cat jars or whatever. But then I realized that this list doesn't have to be all new...

Pointless Surveys

Pointless Surveys

Sometimes I ask people very specific, but random, questions. I've been doing it forever. In high school I had this thing called "Question Of The Day", and I would come up with a question in first period and take tally marks all the way until the end of the day. People...

Weekly Happiness

Weekly Happiness

Here are the good things that happened this week: + beautiful bunting + clown nose + setting up an interactive table near the Kinetic Sculpture Race + metaphorically high-fiving the city + decorating cupcakes at work + when Bug purrs + creepily sitting on a stoop,...