I receive a daily email from a website called Hometalk. Hometalk is a site that hosts a collection of home and garden DIY projects. Their daily emails have a collection of a dozen or so DIY projects that they have collected from crafty folks from around the world that have repurposed everything from coffee stirrers to pennies. [...]
I love Pinterest and I hate Pinterest. As I have said before, Pinterest is like crack for crafters - once you are sucked in you can't get out without an intervention. I do not know how many ideas are posted on Pinterest, but I sense it is in the hundreds of millions. I believe a [...]
Oh yes, you know how I love a great marketing campaign! Today I applaud the Spies Travel Agency in Denmark for its new ad campaign which encourages romantic travel to increase the country's birth rate. Apparently, since 2000 the birth rate has declined 17% in Denmark. Spies has research that shows that Danes have 46% [...]
My son Cory is a third year student in NDSU's architecture program. As I have watched him grow into his own design style I have been amazed at the transformation that has occurred at each step of the way. In his pre-program classes he developed his artistic eye by sketching random objects. He then moved [...]
Today I share a great little Associated Press story out of Brainerd, Minnesota. Oh, how I love this story! On the surface, this is the story of Rin Heise's prom dress, but in-between the lines is a beautiful message of honoring meaning that is wrapped in the moment. Tonight as Rin participates in Brainerd High [...]
If I ever go to a major award show that has a red carpet for me to strut down, I am wearing a dress designed by Taylor Markel. Taylor is one of the designers in the Passion for Green Fashion competition being sponsored by West Acres Mall. Taylor's entry in the competition - which I [...]
I read an interesting blog by Jonah Lehrer on The New Yorker's website awhile back that got me to thinking about daydreaming. The June 5, 2012 blog entry addressed a 2010 publication by two Harvard psychologists that lauded the virtues of daydreaming. In this blog entry Lehrer also discussed other studies that have likewise found utility in daydreaming. The [...]
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