ABOUT THE ARTIST :: MARISA HAEDIKE
Hello Everyone! It's been a bit since I've updated this "about" page. Creative Thursday is evolving and so am I, always! Here's the latest "about me" as of October 2010

I LOVE COLOR - I love the ARTS - I LOVE CREATING - especially DAILY PAINTING and my newest love SEWING-I love MUSIC -I LOVE podcasts and podcasting! I LOVE teaching! I love Food - I love WINE - I love LAUGHING with friends who are like family and family who are like friends - I love Travel - I love FlOWERS - I love the OCEAN - I love Freedom - I love LOVE.

With a background in advertising, acting, graphic design and interior design - it is all beginning to make sense now...
I have been creative all my life, and since my return to California, ten years ago now, I decided to trust the artist within me. My ever-restless entrepreneurial spirit has finally found a home in the limitless design of all things creative, including the newest ventures TEACHING in person and online. Oh and we can't leave out VIDEO BLOGGING. I love to work in many different mediums from writing and acting, furniture and fabric design, sewing, to photography and painting. I am inspired by everything I listed in the first paragraph and then some.

And you ask, "what is Creative Thursday?" A question I hear often. I realized that I am happy when I am being creative. When I was working my 9 to 5 job in Colorado and hardly getting any creative time in, I decided that at least one day a week, Thursdays, had to be set aside for Fun and Creativity! And this is how CREATIVE THURSDAY was born.

When you visit this site I hope you feel inspired to be more creative in your own life, and to surround yourself with color as you can't help but feel happy and alive in its presence. Just remember there is no limit to what we can do when we live to be FREE, Happy and TRUE and be CREATIVE every day, especially THURSDAYS



Marisa lives and works fulltime as an artist from her home studio in Los Angeles with Sean, Riley and Garbo. Her blog, Creative Thursday, now entering its 5th year, continues to be a place where artist's around the world meet to "believe in what is possible for all of us!" Marisa's work can be seen online here at the Creative Thursday website, her Etsy shop and on her blog. Her work is licensed through Oopsy Daisy/Studio Avo, and Papyrus. Marisa's work has been published in, Better Homes and Gardens, Where Women Create, Artful Blogging, Home Decor Buyer, Southern Living Magazine, Interview Magazine and on blogs including, Decor8, Poppytalk, Bloesem, Design Sponge, A Cup of JO, SFGirlbybay and Soule Mama. She is also speaking and teaching in person and online via her e-course, "In the Fish Bowl. Life as an Artist Online" that she launched in 2009. Marisa's advice to anyone pursuing their dreams is to follow your heart, be yourself ~ and believe in yourself.



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