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Mary Alice revealed her love of connecting, collaborating and community during an Instagram conversation, and at that moment, I knew she was my kinda creative lady. We’ve also had several hilarious exchanges about this season’s Game of Thrones (and that will always earn you extra points in my books.) Mary Alice is the brains behind Brainy Beginnings Network, a place filled with insanely rad creative ideas. All of her projects have this magical and unique twist to them. It was most excellent to get a peek into the brain of this genius! Introducing Mary Alice!
I am… A lover of all things whimsical, quirky, and creative. I like ideas. Actually, I love ideas. I love to create new ideas and to put new ideas into motion. I like to sit for hours on end just thinking. Well, at least that’s what I did before I had kids. Now I sit for about 1.5 minutes before being asked to retrieve cookies and milk, STAT.
I find inspiration… Typically in the minutiae. But also everywhere else! I will see an image, the light will hit an object in a certain way, my friends will say something, my kids will do something… It all adds up to a moment in which an idea will burst in thee ole brain.
I am excited about … My business, Brainy Beginnings Network. I work on my business all the time. I am on a mission to get my ideas into the world and to create a community working towards the intellectual and creative development of our children.
When I’m in a creative slump, I… Try to figure out the source of my slump. Generally a creative slump comes about when I am not feeling well physically or am in a difficult mental place. So I try to fix those things first. In doing so, I generally have better creative energy. Running, napping, cooking, taking a walk are some things that help. Anything that alters the thought process will help encourage new ideas. A simple change in environment will often suffic
I’m really proud of… Oh. I’m not sure! I’m proud of my ability to make friends. I really love people and I love making friend
Someone once told me… “Live by your hopes and not your fears.” -My Grandmother via my Mother. This may sound like generic information in the day of inspirational memes but it’s actually quite profound. If you consider how many of our actions are fear driven…or how much we hold back due to fear, it’s quite astounding! If we lived singly by our hope, we would live entirely different and frankly liberated lives!
My advice to you is … Go for it. And go hard. Whatever it is that you want to do, make it happen. I think it starts with believing that you can, making a plan and working towards your goal until it is realized.
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(I often refer to Mary Alice as the Queen of Salt Dough. Seriously- you need to head to her website and see what she can create with salt dough with her littles!)