About Us

Creative Mind and Hands is a site dedicated to renewing the Creative Spirit. By allowing ourselves to create, we find creativity sprouting up in all parts of our lives. We feel renewed energy and fulfillment when we create. This is a place to be inspired, to find a community of like-minded crafters and to learn to free the creativity inherent in all of us.

Marie Benesh is a Project Management consultant and enthusiastic needleworker. She made her first needlepoint project – a green frong on orange background) when her older sister gave her a kit for her 8th birthday. She has taught herself embroidery, cross-stitch, bead stitiching, hardanger, pulled thread work and a variety of stitching styles. Dabbling also in decoupage and quilting, she always seems to wander back to her true love of all things needlework.

Catherine Chant is a freelance writer and an avid crafter. She learned to sew, knit, crochet and needlepoint from her mother as a young girl and never stopped. She now crochets, knits and beads on a regular basis with the occasional detour into sewing or clay crafts as inspiration strikes. She’s always on the lookout for new crafts to try. Up next–art felting. It looks like so much fun!