Dear Creative Diary,
Welcome to the Creative Jam Blog… Our Creative Diary, if you will.
“Dear Creative Diary” is where you will read all about the latest news and events that are happening at the Creative Jam studio, and any other ongoings in this wonderful creative community. We hope you enjoy reading these posts as much as we enjoy writing them!
Dear Creative Diary, Do you ever have one of those nights where you’re holding a glass of wine in one hand and a pile of sparkly mosaic tiles in the…...
Dear Creative Diary, We need help with content… and here’s a confession: I can hot-glue rhinestones onto a pumpkin in record time, but don’t ask me to edit a TikTok.…...
Dear Creative Diary, Summer in Lake George came and went with more of a whisper than a roar. The porch was quieter, the streets less full, and it felt like…...
Dear Creative Diary, Some days I feel like the deer who wanders up to a porch—curious, tentative, wondering if there’s something good waiting there. And you know what? At the…...
Dear Creative Diary, Sometimes I put things out into the world not knowing if they’ll land. Like the phone that we dubbed the Never Too Late Line. A rotary phone…...
Dear Creative Diary, There’s a white denim jacket draped over one of the tables at The Creative Jam.It’s been there long enough to collect dust and good intentions.In my mind,…...
Dear Creative Diary, I Facilitated a Room Full of Giggling Women Painting a Nearly Naked Man and I Have No Regrets.Here’s the thing:I didn’t actually paint. Instead, I poured wine,…...
Dear Creative Diary, Okay so Qigong. (Chee-dong? Key-gong? Qwee-gon-g? Ugh- I’ll work on pronunciation later.) I haven’t done it.Not unless you count flopping dramatically into bed while exhaling and declaring myself “one with…...
Dear Creative Diary, The tourists are coming. Thousands of them. Flip-flops. Floaties. Family-sized SUVs.Pouring into Lake George like glitter spilled across a map. And some of them?They’re gonna wander into…...
Dear Creative Diary, Remember the old phone I was telling you about before? The one I was calling the “Never Too Late Line”? Well it’s up. It is up and…...
Dear Creative Diary, Well. I just listed several painting classes.On Thundertix.On Facebook.Even on LakeGeorge.com and Glensfalls.com.And possibly on my soul. I have no idea how many cups of coffee I consumed,…...
Dear Creative Diary, I gotta be honest—I did not see this plot twist coming. I planned ten weeks of whimsical, wonderful, wildly creative Wednesdays for kids this summer. TEN. WEEKS. Of crafts…...
The roses are blooming. Not politely or modestly. Not even in neat little rows. No, they’ve erupted- red and wild and absolutely unbothered by anything that might try to contain them. Hundreds…...