#mizquitliproductions

You’re invited to take a chance without knowing the outcome, and all that matters is that you say yes.”

For this catalog’s Last Chance Products promotion, a Carryover List will not be provided; carryover products can be viewed in the 2022–2023 Annual Catalog. The last or final opportunity to get, have, do, or achieve something. That is what a last chance signifies. June is usually the culmination period for me because I live by the school year time line. In June, I am typically sending off…

Generating Ideas -Pre-Post Corona Virus Edition

I don’t know about you, but honestly 2020 and 2021 have been a blur, but on a bi-monthly basis I have had to create content for a webpage, create postings for a newsletter. Check in with art therapist and get assignments from her to keep up my creative practice as well as coming up with projects for my Stampin UP demonstrations. Oh yea, don’t forget to write on WordPress. If you ask me what did…

Returning to Life Anxiety- Pre-Post Corona Edition

I believe that as a Stampin’ Up demonstrator I need to be able to connect with others to share information and resources, to collaborate with one another, and to inspire each other. It’s great to be able to connect with my community, but physical proximity isn’t a possibility for some of us demonstrators depending on geographical location, physical ability, or discipline. I feel like I might be…

The Dog Days of Summer and other thoughts

The ancient Romans called the hottest, most humid days of summer “diēs caniculārēs” or “dog days.” The name came about because they associated the hottest days of summer with the star Sirius. Sirius was known as the “DogStar” because it was the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major. I am not an ancient Roman, but I have been smack dab in the middle of the dog days of summer. In San…

Thanks to the inspiration from the three other Stampin Up demos that clearly have time to think, I CASED their ideas, but as usual my ladies never follow the program and RE-CASED those ideas with ideas of their own.

Sometimes it is the subtle changes that make something uniquely your own.   “Creativity is the ability to come up with new ideas through a mental process of connecting existing concepts. The ideas don’t have to be revolutionary (which is a common misconception many people have about creative thinking), they just have to be new for the thinker.” (Christensen, 2013).  That is why I love Stampin Up because it  makes everyone feel creative even if you don’t see yourself as a “creative”.  This is not only a misconception, but a disservice to ourselves as human beings.

Humans are creative and curious by nature.  Early humans drew on walls, sang chants, and drummed on skins in order to convey messages to each other.  It is so part of being human that not to do it is like trying not to breathe.  Many of us have been told, most likely in school that you did not do something right, and it stuck in our brains, so we gave up singing out loud because someone said, “keep it down!”  We stopped dancing like no one was looking, because someone said, ” You call that dancing?”

The taunts and putdowns are endless when we are in school not only from our peers, but from educators who mean well, but actually destroy dreams without meaning to. A few lucky ones excel regardless or in spite of these torments those are the artist we all admire, Lady Gaga, Prince, Freddy Mercury, Picazzo, Monet the list is endless of wonderful artist who were able to rise above, but what about the rest of us??

We all need a creative outlet it is a primal need. So take a chance join a class even if you feel that you can’t do it, try it.  Try something you always wanted to do but didn’t dare for fear real or imagined.  That is the beauty of joining a class no judgements,  you can follow instructions to a tee and if you feel rebellious you can do whatever floats your boat.

If your not ready to do it with others that’s cool too.  You don’t need a live demo that’s where you tube and Pinterest come in. You can buy the products and experiment at home by yourself, in the privacy of your own room ha! Then send cards to others, scrapbook your important moments.  Play with stamp pads and stamps for no reason.  Play and create you can do it!!!