Crafty souls unite! The coast is a great place for crafts! If you're currently or would like to be beading, crafting, jewelry making, or exploring altered and collage art, we know you're out there! Join us and meet like minded others from beginners to experts. Share tips, techniques, favorite craft projects, craft suppliers and experiences.

Paint Dancing events are created so you can have fun openly expressing yourself in two different mediums - AT ONCE! That's Right! PAINTING and DANCING (at the same time). And, a portion of the proceeds helps support local food banks. Watch some Paint Dancing videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DF09B34FE51B3199 We supply the non-toxic paint, brushes, paper, and great music (Latin, Pop, Dance Hits, World, Rock, R&B, Classical, Jazz, Blues, Hip-Hop, Electronica and …

… They needed to, wanted to, put it down on paper. Still others were world or life travelers who were passionate about parlaying even the most ordinary things into art form. Robertson Davies (The Deptford Trilogy) wrote that art or writing is the glorification of the commonplace. How true that seems to be for most writers: We adore words, turns of phrases, seeing the mundane in a new light, turning a cliche moment into an epiphany---that's a writerly word. A little more on my writing background: M …