- Hi, I’m Renata. I’m a mom, a wife, and a teacher. I am also a writer, a painter, and a general creative soul. I love to write stories for children and poetry for adults. My favourite painting medium is acrylics. As well, I love to craft with my kids. While the goal is to have focused, daily creative time, that is not always possible with a five year old, three year old, and a one year old. That is why post it notes with sentence fragments, story ideas, and sketch ideas can be found on most surfaces in my home. This blog is a record of my attempts at sanity and at making me time for creativity while being a mommy of three.
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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Creative Kids: Recycling Crayons
My son was born on Earth Day. In going with this theme, I thought we’d recycle some crayons to give as favours to his daycare buddies in honour of his birthday. It’s really simple to do. You need some tart/little … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Kids, Kid Activities, Parenting
Tagged Earth day craft, recycling, reusing crayons
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Inspiration Wednesdays 5
I am loving this course! Donna Downey is an inspiration (as her course name implies) and so fun to follow. For this installment, we worked with more modelling paste (which I know I’ve said before but I LOVE) to make leathers of … Continue reading
Posted in Me Breaks, Painting, Uncategorized
Tagged art journal, Donna Downey, mixed media painting
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On the Day You Were Born
To My Little Man, This was me four years ago today. It’s so odd to think that there was a time I was not yet technically a mother. On the day you were born, your mama was a different woman than … Continue reading
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Three Things Thursday for Goddess Status
Sometimes in life it is the little things that make you thankful and make a BIG difference. Here are three things I am thankful for: 1) When someone tells you that you have something in your teeth. There is nothing … Continue reading
Creative Kids: Last minute Easter Crafts and a Passover Link
This was a simple craft that holds quite a visual punch when the light shines through. I cut the shape of an egg out of construction paper and covered it with contact paper to prep this art for the kids. Then I … Continue reading
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Tagged Easter crafts, toddler art
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Inspiration Wednesdays 4
For the 4th installment of Inspiration Wednesday we played some more with modelling paste. I love this stuff. It is so fun! To begin this project, I covered the pages in text and then Donna instructed going through the text and framing words and … Continue reading
Posted in Me Breaks, Painting, Uncategorized
Tagged Donna Downey, Inspiration Wednesday, mixed media
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keeping the me in mommy 