The creative power

The Creative Connection

2011-08-01T16:43:00.000-07:00

The creative power meets the creative connection

Great opportunity

2011-08-01T16:41:00.000-07:00

For all of you - creative beings - I encounter this wonderful event very appropriate for us. The Creative Connection will host a three day event full of full of how to's workshops for the creative minds including the new hot spot: social media, blogging and hand made e-business. I will love to attend to learn more and more on the new ways of e-trade, great techniques and all the social media know how I can get. I you would like to go and don't have the money, They have a giveaway for two people/three nights to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event. Click here for details, or go to their WEB page with the side bar button on this page

2009-02-22T22:09:00.000-08:00

Open Studio nights

It has been very rewarding since I first started with the Open Studio nights, every second Tuesday of the month. The clients that have assisted have one thread in common: They all want to explore , connect and exercise their creativity. The funny thing , thought, is that I get to do the same, just by guiding them and assist them in their own projects, which, by the way, are looking more handsome and creative every visit.

This past Tuesday Feb 17th, I did not have that much people coming (I had to cancel and reschedule due to a heavy storm), but I had the greatest time with Vielka Lee Heartz. She Actually is a Sr. Systems engineer in Syrus Computer Solutions, a software company.

Vielka's job is extremely left brained, but she is so happy and into her "just found" creativity, that she is absorbing anything and everything she can get her hands on. It is not easy for a left brained person to open up and let go of past believes and negative thoughts, to allow space for the right brain to come out and play, and implement

its creative ways into Vielka's

personal and professional life.

Well, Vielka has done a wonderful job at opening and embracing her right side of the brain. Congratulations Vielka. you are our "student" of the month!!!. Here is her last project: A personalized valentines; gift for her husband.

They Did It!

2008-10-17T19:09:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to our graduate of "Mapping your Goals".

Anna Espinoza, Grace Platon, Daniela Peinado, Maria Boccalandro and very soon Vielka-Lee Heiz.

For four weeks they came once a week for 3 hours at night . it was a great effort on their part, but they completed their task, and well invested time. They cross over to the other side triumphant and proud on their great achievement.

These ladies worked super hard, although they were having fun and it was a relaxed atmosphere, they worked hard to identify, prioritize, plan, time and

map the goals ( many of them life goals). They learned to use and include their right brain to help achieve those goals, and to work together as a team with the left side of the brain, which most of the time ends up being overworked.

Above all, I commend them for taking the time to nourish themselves and work on been more rounded, balanced, and spiritual beings, and also, for taking the risk and having the courage to explore something unknown to them, as it was their creative side. They came, they worked, they conquered.

Check out the art they created as a tool to help them visuali

ze, everyday , their goals, and some of the pages they created along the way. It was a wonderful experience to witness such creative

beings in action, getting acquainted with their creative power.

Thank you for allowing me to be part of your journey.

First collage its Grace platon's; Second collage its Maria Boccalandro's; and Third collage its Anna Espinoza's. Please visit our Photo page . The album name is "Mapping your Goals". Enjoy!

2008-09-29T09:24:00.000-07:00

"Mapping Your Goals "

workshop is on the go!

We have wonderful participants all very eager to give meaning and direction to their lives, some are becoming "The Creative Power" groupies. They want to come back for more creativity, more tools, and skills to apply to their daily lives: We have Daniela Peinado, Grace Platon, Maria Boccalandro, Vielka-Lee Heitz, Ana Espinoza.

They have work very hard on defining, identifying, planning, organizing their goals. Setting some steps and creating the time line for those dreams to become reality. They have done a lot of the left side brain work, very structured and black and white, but always having fun with creative ways to spice things up. Here are some of the front pages they have created for their workbook.

There will be more images to come. hang on.

Back to school... Finally!

2008-08-26T06:02:00.000-07:00

It is not that I don't like my kids. But having three rampages, creative and full of ideas kids for three months, it's kind of challenging. There is a moment in time that they don't know what else to do, and I certainly pass that stage like a month ago. So I am super happy about them going back to school and them using their brains more often. There were vines coming out from their ears.

That means, We are back in business (Me, myself, and I). There is a couple of projects I am working on. The dress-form series which would have to wait because one of the workshops is coming up: "Mapping your Goals". It is developed already, but I need to work in marketing and selling it. I dread this part. I just find it hard to make people understand the wonderful tools and skills they get with creativity. It is a win/win situation. But somehow their fear interferes and they wont allow themselves to have the experience.

Anyway, If you know of someone (including yourself) that wants to organize their head, map their path, achieve some goals in a very creative, entertaining, and relaxing way, Please pass on this information:

"Mapping your goals" Contact: Ivonne Acero @

Sept 17th - Oct 8th www.thecreativepower.com

4 Consecutive wednesdays info@thecreativepower.com

7:00 PM - 10:00PM 214-697-0611

I will be happy to explain further. In the mean time, I will be in my couch having that "peaceful" coffee, I dramed about all summer.

Generation Millenium

2008-07-16T20:58:00.000-07:00

One of my eight year old twins- Camila- told me today she wanted to make a post in the blog. I thought it was something you could do by default, once you created your blog. Well, I was wrong. It took an eight year old two seconds to realize that there was no way to write a post in my blog.

She even asked me if I wanted to go to HER school blog (they created it with her teacher) and view the way she posted and how to do it. It was hilarious but humbling. I felt old.

So my apologies to you , if you have tried to post and weren't able do do so. Please try now. I think, it is solved (problem/solving skills), but if i didn't, let me know at info@thecreativepower.com .

Student of the month

2008-07-11T07:49:00.000-07:00

I have chosen a very talented and thorough artist for this month. Her name is Cecilia Perez Manzaneda and we refer to her as "Tia Chila"(Aunt Chila). She came to the Senior

workshop and did a couple of paintings to start her journal. She loves arts and crafts and has done many artsy projects in Venezuela (South America)

like wedding bouquets, center decorations, etc, but Tia Chila's most amazing and refined trait is her dulce de leche candy sculptures which can take any form shape and size. She has done baby shower decorations, little baby shoes, miniature sail boats, fruit sculptures, mini people, etc. I have been fortunate enough to taste this beautiful delicacies which you are totally hesitant to bite because you don't want to ruin them, but they are Delicious!.

Here is the artist and one of her journal pages.

2008-07-06T18:00:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,

Finally , I made it. I have been trying to get to the blog everyday since my last post.

I wanted to show you what I am working on right now. I am thinking about several names still. Here you have some photos. The first one is the upper bodice of a dress form I am transforming into an art piece. I don't know exactly were I am going with it, but it doesn't matter. I am letting the piece take me. I am allowing creativity to lead the way.

There are some of the images showing the studio as well.

I hope you guys enjoyed it.

Write any questions or comments you have. Also, if you have some creativity to show in any way or art form: post it here. We appreciate all type of positive and healthy creativity.

2008-06-21T17:59:00.000-07:00

Well, Being my first post, I think it was very successful. I love to play around with the design, but i need to quit that because I can be there forever changing color, fonts etc. I need to post about The Beauty and the beast workshop that finish on May. It was a wonderful and amazing experience. I need to get the photos together.

My most young at heart group ever

2008-06-19T13:05:00.001-07:00

It was really a magical and mystical afternoon tea.

I learned so much from my guest whom, by the way, were all seniors , but have children's hearts.

They all came not knowing what we were going to do. I just said " Come, we will have fun". Of course, they were all in time ready to... Paint? Yes, they painted, colored, drew, wrote , etc, etc, etc.

It was an afternoon to reacquaint with their creative selves which all of them said, they forgotten about long time ago, "since we were little girls."

As I started to explain what I had prepared for them, their eyes opened

more and more, not being even able to blink, out of astonishment.

The greatest part is how all of them just follow the few instructions and started to create. They did not hesitate. What great sports, It was a humble lesson for me. How many times when I am confronted with the unknown, I hesitated. In a few of those occasions , I had backed up. They are called: "Lost opportunities", lost opportunities to grow.

Anyway, The afternoon was very productive. We talked about their legacy. How could they live something very meaningful for us, their heirs.

Something that would tell us their essence; that would help us to understand how they thought; and how they view the world and each one of us. Something that would allowed us to get to know them better and deeper even if they are gone.

That is how they started they own Journals. we did three exercises: No judgment page, drawing my little girl page, and The things a like Page. In each exercise they had to use a different technique and or medium. They learned about colors, markers, watercolors, collage, different glues, and some technique and composition. Their work was awesome and the

y worked very hard the whole afternoon. We even squeezed some time to face paint them, and time for hour English afternoon tea. Here are the participants and some of the examples they created. Truly pieces of art full of meaning and full of information for us: the heirs.