Sharing What You Love Inspires Others To Try

A room full of students, a pile of glitter, and the soft shake of sensory bottles turned an ordinary morning into a small lesson on joy. We walk you through the workshop—choosing colors, tucking tiny treasures into clear bottles, laughing as horses and little people float into view—and show how a low-pressure creative space can calm nerves and spark curiosity. That simple act becomes a doorway to something bigger: giving people permission to make without chasing perfection, and letting the path be the point.

From there, we connect dots across our town’s arts ecosystem. As a new ambassador for the Canton Symphony, we share how music, crafts, and community photos of national parks can blend into a multi-sensory experience that invites everyone in. You’ll hear how pairing concerts with hands-on projects welcomes newcomers, turns audiences into participants, and strengthens local culture. We also dig into the psychology of collaboration—why promoting fellow creators does not dilute your work, how positivity compounds, and where small partnerships can create outsized ripples.

We round things out with what’s next in the studio: overnight slumber parties filled with crafts and mahjong, plus kids’ art camps arriving in June. Expect practical inspiration for hosting your own accessible workshops, reframing fear of failure, and becoming the bright light your circle needs as spring returns. If you’ve been waiting for the perfect idea or the perfect moment, let this be your nudge to start messy, start kind, and start now.

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Transcript

Student Visit & Sensory Bottle Workshop

Why Sharing Creativity Matters

Becoming A Symphony Ambassador

Partnerships, Positivity & Lifting Others

Events, Camps & Spring Energy

Closing Encouragement & Sign‑Off

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Hello everyone, welcome back to a new episode of Bruttifully Made. I'm very excited to be with you again at the end of February. Here we are. Today actually is my second oldest child's birthday. And I'm very excited to tell her hello, happy birthday from your mom. I'm very proud of her. She's very creative, beautiful young woman. Just got married last year, and just very excited for her future and everything that she does. So yeah, today's been a big day. Today we also had uh a group of students that came in and they've just left. And so my morning's been filled with helping them make sensory bottles, and that was so much fun. They got to personalize them with the colors, the things that they wanted inside, glitter. My friend Rachel came in to help, thank goodness for her. And um, the teachers, they had five instructors with them and they loved every moment of it. And then I gave them little mini canvases to make. You can see if you're watching on YouTube, my hands are so yellow and peach and red from the dye um from the bottles, but it was just a lot of fun. We had a really good time, and I hope they enjoy those for a long time because you can shake them and everything like moves around. And um, they said they want to come back twice a year, and I'm all for it. I'm all here for it, helping them find um something creative that they enjoyed doing. They had their lunch here, and it was a lot of fun. So just you know, providing the space and the opportunity for people to explore art in different ways to create and take a mindful moment to um do something in so much joy. And that's what they did. There was a lot of laughter, they loved finding the little miniature things to put in the bottles, and then after they were done, they were shaking them up, trying to find, you know, what they had chosen to add. Did they find their little people that were in them or benches or horses, or you know, the candy that was floating around? It was just really sweet. It was a lot of fun. And, you know, providing a space for that kind of opportunity for people to gather together and do something fun is really important to me. And I think that's why I love sharing what I do, because it gives people ideas that maybe they didn't think of and that they can do it too. And that's what's important because if you share genuinely what you love to do, you never know how it's going to inspire somebody else. And that's what I want, and that's what I love doing. And it's just makes me so happy that I get to do that. And I love when people find joy in the stuff that I create. Um, it's it always just makes me so, so happy. And I want to continue to put that out in the world and encourage other people to do things, explore things that they love to do and want to try and not to be afraid to take that fear away, you know, fear of perfection, fear of failure, fear of worrying that it's not going to be perfect. Um, you know, at every step. It doesn't have to be. It's the joy is in the exploration and the path, and you that that's what makes it perfect, is that you find the joy in in making it. And I here to remind you to do that. I'm here to tell you that's that's going to radiate through everything that you do. Um, I was very honored to be asked to be an ambassador for our Canton Symphony Orchestra. I don't play in the symphony, I don't um I'm not like a member per se. I just am a person in the community that loves what they do and loves to support them in artistic ways and matching some of the things that they do musically with crafts and art and bringing people together. Um, and so they asked me to be an ambassador and I've said, absolutely, you know, whatever I can do to share what you're doing throughout the community, I want to do that. So we're going to a performance this weekend, and it's all based with like national park pictures that people in the community have taken. And so they're putting those, projecting those along with the music. And so it's going to be amazing. And I'm really excited that we'll be going this weekend. And I can't wait to share more of that with you and about it. But um, yeah, uh, we we're so lucky to have a symphony here in uh Stark County and and in Canton and to be a little bit of a part of that in some creative way. I'm happy to do that. So I think it's really important when organizations kind of latch on to your joy. And hey, you've got a little audience doing this. Maybe they'll like what we're doing. Can you share with what you know you're seeing what we do? And, you know, they'll uh maybe attend and it helps somebody else. It's not gonna diminish what you're doing, it's not gonna take away from what you're doing. Those kind of partnerships and joy have the ripple effect that you want, and that's what life means is sending positivity out there, you know. The negative is so easy to spread rumors and and to, you know, goes like wildfire, and it takes so much positivity to squelch those. So being the positive light and the positive voice and the positive, you know, point person in that um, you know, arena, that's that's what you need to be. That's what and it could be in anything. Maybe you um have a passion for, you know, food, or maybe you love to, I don't know, um coffee, maybe you love um carving, maybe it's animals, maybe it's you know, helping rescue dogs, uh anything, anything that you can find that you have a passion for, and you can incorporate that into your daily routine and your life, sharing uh another organization's, you know, efforts to do the things that you love, do it. It's not going to take away from what you're doing. There are other artists out there, there are other locations out there, there are other places that you can go and do stuff that are creative, and I love them all. And it's not gonna hurt you to help promote what they're doing too. There's room for everybody to pursue their dreams. And so you've got to remember that. It's not a competition, it is something that makes the world better when we embrace and help each other and lift each other up. So uh remember that and then um pursue what you love and help others find what they love to try to do. So, yeah, I've been making a lot of sample um class things. I just listed two overnight events here at the shop. I'm really excited. We're gonna do slumber parties, we're gonna do one with mahjong and we're gonna do one with crafts. Mahjong actually has crafts with it too, but the other one with crafts is for all ages. But the mahjong is for adults, so I just thought it would be so much fun. So I uh anxious to see people signing up for that. And we have kids' camps coming up in June for art for the summer. I mean, it is a beautiful, bright, sunny day here in Canton on at the end of the month in February. So it's making everyone feel anxious for spring to be here, go outside, get some fresh air, and uh that be that positive light. So find that positive light where you're at. And um, if you can't really find a bright one, be it, be that bright light and um radiate positivity. So have a great weekend and let's go into March smiling and uh with a sunny disposition. And I can't see what you brutally make. So I will talk to you later. Bye.