Dream Doer Friday…Margot Potter

This week’s dream doer and yesterday’s FAMM Live radio guest is Margot Potter a.k.a. The Impatient Crafter™. She is a designer, author, mixed media artist, trash to treasure trover, freelance writer, consultant, public speaker, actor and vocalist and TV personality who creates innovative designs for manufacturers, books and magazines and teaches popular seminars and classes at craft and major jewelry industry events.

She is a woman of substance who isn’t afraid to color outside of the lines, break the rules, sing at the top of her lungs or speak her mind freely and without fear. She approaches everything with her signature sense of humor, boundless curiosity and copious amounts of joie de vivre because she feels that if its not fun, its simply not worth doing.

Margot and I have a LOT in common. She has an alter ego Madge who matches Cre8Tiva in chutzpah and dazzleness. She is a speak her mind kind of gal and states that, “If you’re looking for perfect, you’ve come to the wrong website. Perfect…isn’t my thing.” She is also an S4 woman (saucy, sassy, smart and snarky) just like me except her Ss are a tad different than my Ss. And that is why I love her and love to talk to her.

She invites people to not only think outside of the box, but to tear it up, repurpose it into something fabulous and stand on it to reach for the stars. Shes equally comfortable at the writers desk, in the design studio, onstage or in front of the camera. She’s been a professional performer for twenty four years and a crafty chick since before she was old enough to hold a Crayola®.

I’m here to inspire you to explore your creativity. I’m here to entice you to roll up your sleeves and dig your fingers deep into some muckity, sparkly, glittery, gloopy, goopy, funky, fabulous crafty goodness. You will break things, burn things, melt things, tear things, wreck things and repair things and you will emerge with something amazing. What you will emerge with won’t always be apparent, because we’re here for the experience and not for the rewards. Not everything you make will be a masterpiece and that’s the point.

I believe that creativity should be generously peppered with glorious mistakes. I believe that even our most crappy creations have immense value. Craptastic crafts are (to paraphrase the lovely Ms. Martha) a good thing. They are the creative fertilizer in our crafty garden. Creativity is a wonderful adventure in the jungles of our imaginations and we shouldn’t be too concerned about bringing along maps or GPS systems when we’re hanging out with the muse.

Margot has written six humorous how to design books. Her designs have appeared in magazines, contributor books, websites, in catalogs, on packaging, in print ads and across the webiverse. She’s designed, consulted and blogged for a variety of major manufacturers in the DIY Craft Industry. She pens an internationally popular blog and creates blog contents for hire. She’s a freelance writer and has written insightful articles for print and the web. Margot and her family create award winning how to videos for YouTube and Margot has appeared as a host and a guest on a variety of videos, web shows and TV shows.

Margot no nonsense approach to creative expression demystifies the creative process for the Average Joe and Jane, inviting everyone to the creative table and convincing all of them that they too can Create Without Filters™.

Margot is offering a FREEBIE every Freaky Friday in October so check out her blog….

Andrew Thornton is giving away Margot’s newest book…Bead Chic ..go sign up to win it…just click bead Chic!!!