The Feeding Pickle Blog — Use what you have

Magazine Package Bows

Marie Winfield

Tags Feeding Creativity, Handmade gifts, Tutorial, Use what you have

Magazine Package Bows
I just love when creative craft supplies show up at my door—for free!

Beeswax Egg Candles

Marie Winfield

Tags Feeding Creativity, Handmade gifts, Tutorial, Use what you have

Beeswax Egg Candles
When it is eggs that we have in abundance, it is egg projects that we try!

Of Crayons and Candles

Marie Winfield

Tags Feeding Creativity, Use what you have

Of Crayons and Candles

When the days of winter drag on dark and long, this is a good way to brighten them!  For just pennies, we used what we had on hand to create a bright spot in our day and a new experience to add to our creativity. Taper candles from the thrift shop got a colorful make-over when we gently softened crayons over a lit candle, and then allowed the crayon to drip onto the taper candles.  Plenty of brown paper to cover our table helped make the clean-up of our many rogue drips quite simple.   We were fascinated by the ease and...


The spirit of creativity

The spirit of creativity
It is the pioneering spirit that feeds creativity. It is the looking to see what it is that you already have that you can use to create what you need.