Editor note: Call me old fashioned, but I use a printed calendar to do the Hello Creative Family Editorial calendar. Each month I print a new page, add it to my “editorial calendar clipboard” and plot everything out with pencil and paper. If you hang around here much, you’ll know that Crystal M is…
I have a rule when it comes to holiday gifts in our house. Each gift must have a ribbon and a gift tag. Sometime around middle school or high school I started to really get into putting a special handmade touch on the gifts I would give for the holidays. I don’t know what triggered it, but…
The year is 1999, I am 20 years old. It is summer and it is hot, hot, hot. I am working at the bookstore located below the apartment that I live in. I spend my hours at work manning the information desk. All day long I keep getting the same question over and over and…
When Crystal (Allen) asked me to create some printables for Hello Creative Family, I was super excited. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been doodling letters (band names on the paper cover of textbooks, anyone?) and had recently gotten back into doing more hand-lettering, this time with the help of the computer. Being…
Mother’s Day is coming up so today we thought we would give all of our creative dad readers a bit of creative inspiration for Mother’s Day! Moms leave this post up on your computer so Dads will stumble across it! Dads, send Mom out for a manicure or a trip to Starbucks, gather the kids…
Last night I came home from work and said to the Hubs “Today is the first day of the rest of my life.” He laughed at me “Do you think you’re being a bit dramatic? I’d say that this is the first page in the next chapter of your life.” Regardless of how you word it,…
Happy Throwback Thursday! Father’s Day is just around the corner. I know what the kids and I will be working on this weekend. Last year in the lead up to Father’s Day we shared roundups of Father’s Day Printables and Father’s Day DIY Gifts that you can craft with kids. I thought that today I…
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes! In January I sat down, wrote out goals and created my intention for 2014. The intention I set was “Do It!” Ever since that day I’ve been trying to make changes in my life to get to the life that I want to live. I want to live a life where I am creatively…
Father’s Day is 4 days away. We shared with you our favorite Father’s Day Gift Ideas That Kids Can Help Craft last week, so this week we thought we would share our favorite Father’s Day Printables. Growing up, my family was big A&W Rootbeer fans. I still remember when an A&W restaurant opened up in our…
Hello friends! Valentine’s Day is almost here! Only two more sleeps as Bean would say. We had Family Day yesterday which is a new statutory holiday in Vancouver. The Hubs had to work, but that means that he has Valentine’s Day off. I’m sure we will have a great Family Valentine’s Day on Thursday. I decided that…