And "what is Creative Thursday?" you ask. A question I hear often. Pretty simple answer really – and one that only took me fifteen years to trust.
I am happiest when I am being creative.
While working a 9 to 5 job, as an interior designer in Boulder Colorado and still hardly getting any creative time in, I decided that at least one day a week, Thursdays, had to be set aside for Fun and Creativity! And this is how CREATIVE THURSDAY was born. Just a short time later, while chatting with a friend driving from Boulder to Denver – I announced that Creative Thursday would be the name of my business that I would have ‘some day’. I knew that I would be endlessly inspired creatively and would never want to be boxed in - and ‘Creative Thursday’ would be the perfect umbrella to house all of my artistic ambitions.
I'm happy to report that ‘some day’ happened, and in 2004 I started {my second} business.
Trial and error, successes and failures, moments of joy and many tears, and most importantly a willingness to just keep going {through it all} - brought me here to create and share the art, the fabric, the book {and soon to be a show!} that you now know as Creative Thursday. Those characters in my paintings, the ones holding hands and wearing hats, first made their appearance when I needed them most, their soft expressions reminding me it would all be okay. Today, they are still here to cheer us on, providing a calm reassurance and a gentle reminder to live joyfully and contentedly – to live a life we love.