Try Creativebug free for a week!

Cool news! Creativebug is free through September 16th. (Referral link.) I’ve shared a lot here over the years about how much the kids and I have enjoyed taking classes at Creativebug. Their drawing and painting classes have long been a staple of my Saturday-night art date with Rilla. The modest monthly subscription fee grants access to hundreds of classes in all sorts of creative pursuits: watercolors, line drawing, embroidery, sewing, knitting, crochet, cake design, on and on!

This Lisa Congdon class on Basic Line Drawing launched my personal sketchbook practice several years ago and changed my world. (I’ve since had the pleasure of getting to know Lisa in person, because she lives right here in Portland. She’s a gem! As is her new book,  Find Your Artistic Voice.)

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Since then, I’ve taken pretty much all of Lisa’s Creativebug classes including her Daily Drawing Challenge and Sketchbook Explorations. You’ll find lots of art from her Daily Painting Challenge on my walls.

Last month I worked my way through Rebecca Ringquist’s embroidery stitch-a-day class…




…and made this sampler. 






Right now I’m taking Rebecca’s Advanced Embroidery Sampler course and learning a bunch of new stitches to support my Secret Project. And I made this Dropcloth Samplers pincushion!









Also currently loving Lisa Solomon’s watercolor class!






I filled up several sketchbooks in wonderful classes by Jennifer Orkin Lewis (August Wren), Pam Garrison, andYao Cheng.





Here’s a class Beanie took, to the delight of the whole family: Making Hand Pies.


As you can see, Creativebug has added a whole lot of color (and flavor!) to our world.


By the way: this isn’t a sponsored post; I’m just enthusiastic. It does contain affiliate links, which means I get a small referral fee if you decide to subscribe. But the impetus behind this post was a conversation with my friend Erica, who visited us from San Diego last weekend. I was enthusing about my embroidery obsession and next thing I knew, I had the laptop open and was showing Erica all the Creativebug classes I’ve taken. That reminded me I’ve been meaning to share our favorite classes here for ages. Then I got the alert that Creativebug is opening its doors to all classes for free this week and knew I’d better hop over here and share!