Vicki O'Dell… The Creative Goddess

      It is said that we are entering a creative economy. The old economy has gone kerflooie and a new one is in the making. A creative economy where creative businesses and creative minded people have the potential to earn a living on their own terms. A chance to redefine success and what [...]

  While the rest of the world is OVER Valentine’s Day and moving on to other things we just had our family Valentine’s Day dinner last night. It was our first chance to get together to celebrate the holiday and we decided we wanted to do something special. I knew I wanted to make a [...]

  Sometimes you just need to get out of the house. I think my husband knew this on Saturday when I was STILL undecided about whether I wanted to travel up to Cleveland for the Intergalactic Bead Show. He talked me into going knowing that I needed some time out of the house looking at [...]

    I have a kind of unusual hobby. I like to look around in the world at what people are making, wearing, or decorating with and see if I can spot upcoming trends. It’s just for fun, but, I’ve gotten pretty good at it over the years. In fact, I’m on the Trends Committee [...]

  I have a craft product review up over on Craft Test Dummies for Color Infusions Memory Thread from DMC today that I hope you’ll check out. One of the fun things about doing reviews for Craft Test Dummies is that I usually end up making a small sample with the product I’m reviewing. Not [...]

  The North East Ohio snow machine has started up again. I took this photo yesterday as the white stuff was just starting to pile up. It makes me glad that I work from home. The older I get the less I like driving in snow covered streets. At my age, I know enough to [...]

I’ve wanted a Silhouette Cameo for AGES now. I’ve gone around to dozens of blogs where one was being given away trying to win one. No luck! I have a Slice, I have a Cricut (actually I had TWO Cricut machines at one time), a CuttleBug and a Sizzix Big Kick … but what I [...]

  I don’t know about you but I’m kind of a deep thinker. I like to turn an idea or concept over and over in my head, looking at it from all angles and gathering little bits of insight. It seems to be happening more now that I’m trying to embrace midlife rather than deny [...]