Author: Adrienna
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Finding Magic in the Everyday: Creativity, Curiosity, and a Lifelong Friendship
“Anything that was created was once made from trying something completely new that no one had ever done before.” Meet Heather Heather is a talented, imaginative, and endlessly warm creative whose work has a way of making the everyday feel extraordinary. For over a quarter of a century, she’s been a constant in my life,…
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Part 1 of 7: The Things I Made When Life Felt Like It Was Falling Apart
I was mindlessly scrolling through Pinterest last night when a photo stopped me cold. It was a dreamcatcher… one that I had made several years ago. Seeing it unexpectedly felt like opening a time capsule. Memories came rushing back all at once, pulling me into a season of my life I don’t often revisit –…
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The Leap into sensory play and creative entrepreneurship
Taking the Leap I’ve decided to finally take the leap. I don’t have a perfectly mapped-out five-year plan. I don’t know exactly where this road will twist or surprise me. But I do know what I’m building right now. Spiraling Creatively is officially stepping into sensory experiences and craft kits. These sensory bins and themed…
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I Don’t Know What I’m Doing—And I’m Doing It Anyway
Taking on this new venture has been harder than I expected. And I mean that honestly—no joke, I don’t have the slightest clue what I’m doing when it comes to building a website. At all. I ask ChatGPT a million questions a day, and even then I still get frustrated trying to figure out something…
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Creative Courage at the Beauregard Fairgrounds Mardi Gras Festival
This Valentine’s Day, my husband gifted me something better than chocolate. He gave me time. Time to wander. Time to observe. Time to be Adrienna the creative, not just mama for a few hours. So I headed to the Beauregard Fairgrounds Mardi Gras Festival for a little R&D. Research and development… but also Rediscovering and…
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The Year I Put Paint on My Butt for Love (and Creativity)
Getting creative for Valentine’s Day this year has been… a struggle. Trying to figure out what to do brought back some hilarious memories from 2024. Baby girl wasn’t even walking yet, which meant I could actually set things up without tiny hands redecorating everything in a five-mile radius. She was tiny enough that we could…
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Another Creative Date Idea: Turning Up the Heat
We’ve always been good at coming up with creative date night ideas. Actually doing them is another story. Marriage, a little one, and the everyday avalanche of laundry, dishes, and forgotten litter boxes has a way of shrinking free time down to nothing. Some days it feels like a win just to wash your hair.…
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Daily Learning Poster — A Simple Start to the Day
Mornings with a toddler are… well, let’s just say chaotic. There’s breakfast to be made… and then made again, clothes to be wrangled on, and that morning coffee that somehow ends up cold before I even take a sip. I wanted something to make our mornings a little calmer, a little more fun, and maybe…
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Letting Creativity Lead: Chaos, Care, and Creating Anyway
“Creativity can hold both loss and joy at the same time, and continuing to create can be an act of love all its own.” Meet Chelsea Pellegrino Full-time working mom of two, a natural leader, and a creative spirit who finds expression in both big moments and quiet, everyday ways. Whether she’s crafting seasonal décor,…
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Cake Wars: A Not-So-Typical Date Night That Took Us Out of the Couch and Into the Kitchen
Sometimes the best date nights aren’t fancy or planned weeks in advance. Sometimes they’re spontaneous. Sometimes they’re a little messy, a little ridiculous, and way more fun than expected. One of our favorite creative date nights started with something very simple: a bag full of random prompts. What We Needed How We Played We wrote…