Author: Adrienna
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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…
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When a Project Forces You to Pivot
Today’s creative update isn’t shiny or finished or triumphant.It’s the kind of realization that settles in your chest and refuses to move. Sometimes projects don’t move forward.Sometimes they stop you cold and force you sideways. I had been making steady progress on this piece. Not fast progress, but the kind that feels earned. The kind…
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How Motherhood Shifted My Creative Path:My Journey to Starting Again
In my first two posts, I shared how fear, self-doubt, and perfectionism kept me stuck for years — and how I’m learning to honor and recognize my own form of creativity. But one question kept coming up as I wrote: Why now? Why finally begin after all this time? The answer, in large part, is…
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In Progress: The Gothic Headboard That Got Away From Me
I started this project last year, fully convinced I’d have it finished before my husband and I’s anniversary.It’s now January of the following year.And I am still not done. The plan was to redesign our bedroom with a romantic, gothic feel. We got married on Halloween dressed as vampires—an entire story for another time, which…
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Embracing My Own Version of Creativity: My Journey to Starting Again
How I realized creativity was always a part of my life — I just didn’t recognize it at the time. In my last post, I shared how fear, self-doubt, and perfectionism kept me stuck for years. I ended with a realization that I had always been creative — I just hadn’t allowed myself to see…