Crafty

It's day 13 of the WEGO Health (they're @wegohealth on Twitter) Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge (HAWMC)*, in which they offer a blog prompt per day for a month, and this is a fun one: "Open a book to any page, and take the first line you see. That's the title of your blog post. What does your blog say?" Nice!

I grabbed Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain by Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield, and the first line I spotted on page 111 is "You're going to get a little competitive on this one."

The resulting blog is all about contests and craftiness and fun. Wouldn't you want to read that?

Posted: 4/13/2011 in Crafty  |  Also posted in: Cool Tools

We're 8 days in to the WEGO Health (they're @wegohealth on Twitter) Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge (HAWMC)*, in which they offer a blog prompt per day for a month, and organizers are just trying to kill me. Today's prompt: Write a poem (5-15 lines) where every line is a health question.

Seriously? Another poetry prompt? Y'all are killing me over here. I already explained I hate writing poetry. Sigh. OK, well if you insist, then I'm going to give you bad poetry, I'm sorry. There's just no getting around it.

Posted: 4/8/2011 in Crafty

It was short. It was low cut. It was ever-so slightly slinky. It was the opening gala for the Newport Film Festival and the dress code was "a little bit dressy." Seriously, when can you go wrong with a little black dress? It always looks classy and simple and suitable for almost every occasion. I had a beautiful one from Ann Taylor in the closet. Just grab a pair of black heels, some sparkly (fake) jewelry, and slip into that dress.  No problem...until I went to slip into my Something Most Comfortable: namely, my insulin pump that I wear to manage my type one diabetes.

Posted: 10/2/2006 in Crafty

Christa Barnell is a fine artist living and working in Carbondale, Ill. Despite her chronic daily headache, Christa supports herself with art and uses it as a sort of therapy. ChronicBabe caught up with Christa about her work, her headache, and everything in between.

Posted: 9/17/2005 in Crafty  |  Also posted in: Inspiration

Heat can be great for what ails you, but sometimes you need something a little more mobile than the traditional plug-in heating pad. Here's a cheap and easy trick to make your own heating pad.

Posted: 6/11/2005 in Crafty  |  Also posted in: Cool Tools

After reading all the submissions for this edition of the ChronicBabe blog carnival, we are in awe of how creative, crafty and clever you Babes truly are. It's impressive how you all use your own brand of art therapy as an amazing and life-affirming chronic illness coping tool.

For those of you who don't consider yourselves very crafty or
artistic, read on and get inspired by your fellow ChronicBabes. Then
we'll meet you at the fabric and crafts store afterward to help you
pick out the supplies for your very own first project.

Posted: 8/24/2010 in Blog Carnival  |  Also posted in: Crafty

Health magazine has created a new project, the The Face of Health, and invites women to participate in this organic photo essay of sorts.

Posted: 6/5/2007 in Announcements  |  Also posted in: Crafty

I am so fly. My new inhaler makes me the hottest girl in the club. Yea, that's right. I said INHALER.

Posted: 6/11/2006 in Fashion  |  Also posted in: Crafty

Sometimes, a ChronicBabe is also aCUTE Babe. You know, AcuteBabe. As in, experiencing acute symptoms of some sort. As in, your Editrix has had acute back pain for the past week. Here are a few tips for ChronicBabes who are experiencing an ACUTE situation.

Posted: 2/24/2006 in Coping  |  Also posted in: Crafty

It's amazing what a little conversation can do. One day a few years ago I learned that I wasn't the only person in the family to have fibrocystic breasts. "Wouldn't that have been a nice thing to tell me a few years ago?"I asked my mom. This was after I had undergone a panic-attack inducing ultrasound after finding a large, rope-like lumpy area in my left breast -- only to have the test turn up nothing.

Posted: 7/7/2005 in Family  |  Also posted in: Crafty

What started as a way to teach this 30-something doggie new tricks soon turned into a fun, beautiful way to celebrate my successes. Now I turn the simplest objects into powerful symbols, full of personal significance.

Posted: 7/2/2005 in Fashion  |  Also posted in: Crafty