A Day in the Studio
Just sharing a peek of what I’ve been up to lately! I keep my Wednesdays free for lots of play.
Just sharing a peek of what I’ve been up to lately! I keep my Wednesdays free for lots of play.
Hello creatives! I am in a period of major art exploration right now, so my tip this week is a simple one : try it out- what could go wrong? You don’t have to show it to anyone, you can keep that piece of art […]
Whenever you start a new project make a project page in your bullet journal. It will save you a lot of grief in the future, trust me! I do this regardless of the kind of project I am doing. I do find it is most […]
Still can’t keep track of your many projects? Try a Kanban board. Say what? A kanban board is a project management tool designed to help visualise work. Kanban boards visually depict work at various stages of a process using cards to represent work items and […]
In honour of World Book Day I am republishing this post that originally appeared on my other blog Callaloo Soup. I few years ago, I started reading books about creativity. Not books with creative projects per se, but books that talk about helping you to […]
I talk a lot on here about having a plan, starting with the end in mind etc. but I have to confess that that was not at all my approach for these 28 Days of Blogging. I kinda jumped into this challenge as a way […]
A few months ago I discovered Amy Maricle of Mindful Art Studio, and I am so thankful! She does live Slow Drawing parties on Facebook every Wednesday, and they are lovely. Each week there’s a theme, but the process is very open ended. Her goal […]
Going through the archives of my old blog, I came upon something I absolutely adored back in 2006 – The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun from BoxofCrayons. It started out as a flash movie, but now it’s up on YouTube. It is as relevant […]
After talking about having an uncluttered working space I wanted to show you all the room where it happens. (I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this here, but another of my obsessions is the Hamilton Musical. If you know, you know). I ran my five […]
Productive Creativity? What’s that? Well I like to think of it as creativity with a purpose. Mindful creativity. Creativity that meets a certain goal. I’m not saying you should be measuring this in the traditional way of course. Just in a way that is meaningful […]
Hey there! I’m Francine aka The Organised Crafterbrain.
What’s a crafterbrain you ask? Well it’s the brain of a multi-passionate creative person who knows where to find her stuff, how to plan out her projects, and how to make time to make all the things!
If your craft room, office, or studio situation overwhelms you right now, stick around and learn how to turn that scatterbrain into a crafterbrain!