My Creativity Blog

My daughter, Lara DeHaven, is a writer for My Creativity Blog. She also writes for her own blog, Texas Homesteader and another blog called Welcome to the Ranch. Lara is very creative and has been spending weeks creating gifts for Christmas. Lara created a poem for the ranch blog that I want to share with [...]

My husband loves to watch Do-It-Yourself programs.  I think some of the most creative people in the world take one thing and use it to create something else entirely.  For example you can install beautiful counter tops made from recycled glass.  We watched a show where a man built his own company turning old composite [...]

The Grimes County Fair begins Saturday, June 4th.  For one week, the county is extremely busy as kids show off the best of their animal projects, cooking abilities, and creative arts entries.  The community comes out to support the youth as spectators and as buyers of both animals, food, and art. As the mother of [...]

Most of you realize that Sunday is Mother’s Day.  Commercials, television shows, and store displays remind us of this up-coming day constantly.  Regardless of what you decide to do for your mother this weekend, it is going to involve some creativity. We all want to show our mothers how much we love and appreciate them.  [...]

I love to give homemade gifts for Christmas.  I devote the last part of the year to being creative.  I don’t know if you can schedule creativity, but necessity breeds invention.  The first thing I do is really think about the person.  What do they need?  What do they like?  The last thing I worry [...]

Sometime in your life you will become interested in your family history. It happened to me when I was in my thirties. I did not know much about my father’s family, so I started doing research. I found a lot of information through the Clayton Genealogical Library in Houston, talking to family members, going to county [...]

There are too many demands on today’s kids. The amount of things that they need to learn at school and the competitiveness that pervades our society can make it quite tough for children these days to naturally exhibit their talents. They are constantly being told what to do instead of being left to think for [...]