About Me

My name is Sarah Bush and I’m on a mission to get you creating again.

And if you are creating, I’ll help you get bolder with your work and delve deeper into the artistic experience.

I’m a mixed media artist, art consultant, and creativity coach. I’ve been making my living creatively most of my adult life.

I’ve sold my own jewelry and stationery lines to boutiques and museum shops across the country, designed gift and home decor collections for wholesale companies that sold to large department and famous chain stores, and I was a creative director for a crafting retail entertainment start-up where I designed and developed hundreds of craft and art projects that helped thousands of people have a fun, positive creative experience, regardless of their experience level.

But I ALSO know, first hand, what it’s like to wait on tables to try support your art habit, or to choose the security of the regular paycheck and benefits of a corporate type job that are a relief on the one hand, but can make you feel like you’ve traded your dreams for endless meetings, non-stop emails and stuffy suits that have no connection to the real you.

All to leave you feeling too tired to create at the end of the day anyway.

Boy, it can be depressing to have your creativity, this essential part of you, feel like it’s gone or invisible to the people around you. I’ve been there.

Or to feel like your whole life revolves around your job or taking care of other people.

Not to mention getting all tangled up in those familiar fears of not measuring up, not being good enough, or feeling unsupported.

I have felt and experienced all these things.

But because I’ve always just wanted to live my life on my own terms as an artist, I’ve regrouped several times over the years and created practical strategies for keeping that flame alive.

And along the way, I’ve figured out a lot about

• the creative process
• the pros and cons of making a living being creative
• concrete ways to build and maintain creative momentum
• making meaning with your art or creative pursuits when it seems you’re working in a vacuum or that part of you is invisible to everyone around you
• how not to rob yourself of the simple pleasure of creating by trying to live up to a fantasy or crazy ideal
• and how to live one’s life as an artist regardless of what you do for a living.

Make Great Stuff was born to share what I’ve learned in order to help you overcome those challenges as well by providing concrete, structured systems that support your creativity so that this essential part of you can shine again.

I’m endlessly interested in the creative process and am ridiculously earnest about keeping you inspired and providing practical, concrete tools that genuinely help you re-connect to and nurture your creativity so you don’t feel like you’re all alone, that it’s all just silly or doesn’t matter anyway.

Because I’m passionately convinced that it does matter.

The world needs creative people like you to flourish and be in touch with your intuition and imagination, to have faith in your ability and all that is possible.

I love living my life as an artist, and I want you to help you live your life that way too–in your particular way, expressing your particular self, bringing your particular gifts into the world.

Now that you know a little about me, click on the link below to learn more about how best to utilize what Make Great Stuff has to offer: http://makegreatstuff.com/how-it-works/.

I look forward to getting to know you better!

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If you’d like to look at some of my current artwork, click here:

http://sarahbushartworks.com

(If you’d like to see some products and projects I’ve designed over the years, click here:
http://www.sarahbushportfolio.com/.)