About Creative Legacies

Passions...

Mixie Kingman Eddy MA, the Founder of Creative Legacies, is a Personal Historian and Creativity Coach, as well as a hobby musician, who specializes in helping later-bloomers re-awaken their passion for creative work. She also loves to interview and then design for or co-design with her clients a special video or photo book documenting a "living" archive of their personal history and unique work, and/or the creativity of a special, gifted individual in one's family (deceased or still living)…….so that (like an ongoing blooming perennial flower) this highly creative person's legacy will be preserved and live on for years to come!

If you are (or know of) a bright, budding artist, writer, musician, architect, actor, inventor, artistic craftsperson, landscape or interior designer, graphic artist, chef, website designer, gardener, quilt maker, or any other creative type of person who wants to preserve your or another's creative pursuits, then you are encouraged to contact Creative Legacies.

Empathizing with overcoming feelings of discouragement about getting a late start in awareness of her own creative strengths, Mixie is motivated to inspire her fellow “later-bloomers” that it’s never too late to pursue rewarding work or hobbies that align with their creative talents. For example, she discovered her own dream of playing traditional music (in a band) around age 40 and launched her creativity career coaching and personal history business after age 50, following many years working (as a counselor and instructor) in Singapore, Australia, and Puerto Rico at various international schools, as well as high schools in Vermont and New Mexico, plus a college (teaching Japanese business students) in Washington State.

Background...

Growing up amidst an exceptionally gifted artistic/scientific family (her father was a brilliant artist, photographer, and art museum director, her mother was an outstanding anthropologist, her sister is a talented++ graphic designer, her husband is an inspiring educator, and her son is the innovative founder of a high tech company), Mixie has always thrived living and collaborating with synergistic teams of highly imaginative people, who think “out of the circle” in creative projects. During her work with clients, Mixie is passionate about honoring one’s unique creativity and personal history, and finds great joy in bringing out one's rich personal stories (especially through photo memoirs and videos), to design a living tribute, since this process taps both her clients' legacies and her own creativity as well.

Having discovered her own passion for meaningfully connecting with others to brainstorm and improvise new ideas and options, she’s continuing to evolve her own professional development as a personal historian. With myriad tools and resources, Mixie is adept at eliciting clarity and untapped potential in her clients to spark their creativity and help them discover their unique personal brand. Her active pursuit of learning and identifying what makes diverse people “tick,” serves her clients well. She has earned a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and certifications as a Career Management Coach, Personal Branding Strategist, Career Development Facilitator, Dependable Strengths Facilitator, and Technical Writer/Document Designer. Mixie is also continuing her training in musical creativity, as well as technical training to keep up with the current trends in designing personal history photo memoirs in books and videos on both her Mac and PC computers, in order to preserve one's creative pursuits and fascinating stories.

Moreover, Mixie is experienced in web design and spearheaded a website re-design project for the Puget Sound Career Development Association in Seattle, WA. She recently received a special award for her work as "Webmistress" after serving on the Board of Directors for this non profit organization during the past 7 years.

Additional Creative Interests...

Always striving to live a well-balanced and healthful lifestyle full of creativity, Mixie loves playing traditional Celtic music with various groups of musicians, designing layouts for collages, videos, and websites, planning projects, taking photos, doing creative writing, traveling overseas, walking with her special pooch,” X-C skiing, bicycling, meditating, and picnicking in gorgeous parks with her family and close friends mostly throughout the Pacific Northwest, California, New England, and New Mexico (rain or shine)! Whenever she cultivates her creative expression amidst nature's wonders, her life and her work are greatly enhanced!