I was searching the web for creative Halloween Countdown Calendar ideas when I came across a site I knew would be great for today’s Monday Muse. Crafty Chicks is a collection of women (mostly Mamas, from what I can tell) who have some of the most wonderful ideas for all things crafty. Currently up on…
Thanks to a recent post on the Pioneer Woman (turns out she’s also the idol of today’s Monday Muse) I learned about Smitty Baby…and am jealous I didn’t think of that idea first! Not the crafty clothes and baby items, I’ll gladly ooh and aah and let someone else design and create those things –…
Today’s Monday Muse is a bit different – not because she doesn’t do all the things the rest of us Mama artists struggle to do each day (laundry, parenting, dishes, laundry, creative time!, vacuuming…) but because she’s managed to become insanely successful at her craft and beat the odds in so many ways. She taught…
I’m skipping Monday Muse this week – my children’s theatre company is still in its infancy, and started its first fall semester run on classes this afternoon. I was playing the role of multi-tasking maven today to the hilt as I put the finishing touches on the script, got Miss A’s homeschool lesson plans together…
I was so happy when I found this site, after seeing it advertised over at SmartBitches. It’s like an entire site devoted to the Monday Muse concept! Here, from their About page: Being a mom and a writer is hard, and the only other people who know just how hard are other Mama Writers. We…
Can I have an amen for the alliteration? Today’s Monday Muse is Susie Libell, a mom of two chaotic little people (as she prefers to call her punks/heathens/chilluns/epsilons/offspring/etc – please-insert-your-moniker-of-choice here). Susie writes the delightful blog Inner Toddler, in whose words I recognize a kindred spirit: her posts create a catch-all journal of sorts that…
If you have ever stopped by here for a visit before, you may have noticed I had a helluva lotta links to books…books I was currently reading, books I had read recently, books I planned to read soon – even books I had started to read and put down somewhere and never finished. I love…
…To receive an award? It’s always nice to win an award, and even nicer when it’s unexpected. Like this morning, when I discovered one of my Monday Muses, artist Jennifer DesAutels, had decided to bestow upon me (and some other wonderful women) the Bella Sinclair Art Inspiration award. Originally created by Ces (another MM!) for…
If it bothers you… forget that it’s Tuesday, and pretend it’s Monday while reading today’s Monday Muse. I first learned of photographer Miss Booshay (aka Donna Boucher) via her guest posts on the Pioneer Woman’s website. I feel a special kinship to this Muse, based on the simple fact that she has two red-headed daughters…
I consider myself a multi-tasking maven…I seem to have always thrived on having half a million things going on at once…but some multi-tasking mamas just put me to shame (like my idol: The Pioneer Woman). I want to know…do these women sleep? As summer comes to a close, I am starting to put together a…
Melonie Johnson 
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