Creativity Corner

August 31, 2025 // sowing seeds

Ian and I run an outdoor day camp for a week every summer, teaching kids fire making, foraging and other wildcrafting skills. This year Natalie Henson of Cilly Citrus showed the kids how to dye bandanas using the sun (aka cyanotype printing!).

This is my first post in the creativity corner! Although this space is digital, I’m envisioning it as a physical space, a cozy nook in a room full of light and color. Soft music, cushions galore, a candle burning. You know the type of place. Think cozy, think crafty, think fabulous. In this nook I aspire to the following:

  • share any and all creations I am working on

  • find patterns across my many interests to more deeply understand my own creative inclinations, strengths & weaknesses

  • provide motivation for starting projects and seeing them through

  • allow for reflection on process, what worked well and what didn’t

  • create a consistent practice of sharing work

  • provide an alternative to social media where I can’t get sucked into to the algorithms/avoid inundating people with excessive posting

I often find that art does not feel complete until shared. But when you’re a beginner at many things like I am, it can feel embarrassing sharing your work, wrought with mistakes and could-have-been-betters. This corner is for those could-have-been-betters, the half-baked ideas and the almost-but-not-quites. Perhaps my humble endeavors will be of interest (or entertainment) to you, and if so I welcome you whole heartedly!

Some creations you might see along the way: buckskin clothing, photos shot on film, cattail hats, knitting, documentary works-in-progress, words, food, music, who knows what else! I’m a dabbler so this corner will definitely reflect that. I’m aiming to share once a week. Welcome any and all!

September 12th, 2025 // a cat in the hat

Last month Ian and I made the trek up to Maine to Way of the Earth School, an earth skills school where they teach wildcrafting, nature awareness, land caretaking, etc. We helped lead a week-long kids program there and then spent the rest of our time soaking up sweet summertime in Maine… & weaving this cattail hat. It’s quite a simple process, just like an upside down basket!

For next time I’d like a) to make sure my cattails don’t get rott-y because I left them out in the rain b) harvest wider cattails that are all roughly the same size. Late summer to early fall is the time to harvest, so mark your calendars!




September 26th, 2025 // a little pink dish cloth

I’ve been teaching myself to knit over the past few months and it’s been SLOW so I was super excited to sign up for class advertised as “Knitting/Crochet” class at a community center in my neighborhood.

“Are you here for knitting or crochet?” My teacher asked on the first day of class. I told her that I was there for knitting and she let out a big groan. “Well, that’s too bad because I don’t know how to knit,” she said. Dubious advertising, I dare say!

So once again, I am teaching myself (with the assistance of two students in the class who do know how to knit and felt bad for me). I told them I wanted to make a hat and they told me to start with a dish cloth so here is my little pink dish cloth in all its glory.