Tagged: Creativity

Christmas Gift Wrapping Ideas

Clever gift wrapping ideas for Christmas and birthdays
For the past ten years I've invested extra time into wrapping Christmas gifts for my family. Gift wrapping is an interesting tradition. It's pure decoration. And it's an activity that gets even the most non-artistic person to physically participate in the artistic process. Yes, there's a secondary goal of hiding the gift inside, but the primary goal is to make something pretty. And for those who enjoy exercising their creativity, what an open door gift wrapping is! My tradition started out innocently Read More

In Defense of Creatives

In Defense of Creatives
There's been a backlash to the use of the term "creative" as a title (e.g., "He's a creative.") It's simply another way of saying that somebody is creative. Some of this backlash has come from people I truly admire. And I get their point. The reasoning goes something like this. God is creative. We see it in His creation, and that act of creativity is the first thing we see mentioned about God in the Bible. It's right there in Genesis 1:1. "In the beginning God CREATED the heavens and the earth." Read More