Catalyst Ranch’s
Creative Juice Blog
It's Halloween here at Catalyst Ranch! (Well it's Halloween everywhere I suppose) To celebrate this creative holiday we decided to put our Ranch Hands to the test in the ultimate battle of wits, creativity and stamina - a pumpkin carving contest. Its up to you now to vote for your favorite creation and ultimately crown one [...]
Today’s blog entry is guest written by Kristin Neperud Merz of www.unscribbled.com where she has been designing, branding and doing all things creative since 2000. Kristin also serves Catalyst Ranch as a Creative Strategist and is our designer of all things digital. She is also the writer of ”Unscribbling: The Art of Problem Solving and Fulfilling Your Ideas” from which the following [...]
In addition to being a go to destination for meetings and events, Catalyst Ranch partners with several community based philanthropic organizations throughout Chicago. We recently partnered with Lydia Home on projectMUSIC to send 40 abused and neglected children to summer camp. Coming up this week we partner with another amazing Chicago philanthropy called Kaleidoscope for their [...]
We're smack in the middle of Big Draw Chicago and all of us at Catalyst Ranch are having a blast checking out all the amazing events! We've already written at length about what an amazing project Big Draw Chicago is and Catalyst Ranch is so proud to be one of its sponsors! If you aren't familiar with [...]
Catalyst Ranch is thrilled to be hosting Allie LeFevere's Beauty Experiment on October 12th! Beauty Experiment is a revolutionary workshop designed to (in Allie's own words) "redefine your relationship with your body. With food. With your reflection. To love you again. And act like it. To call yourself beautiful. And mean it." Allie was kind enough to take [...]
As you may have noticed, www.CatalystRanchMeetings.com got a major design overhaul. We completely revamped the entire site from top to bottom and came away with a site that is bigger, better, faster, stronger. We've loved all the great feedback we've gotten from our clients, facilitators, vendors and partners! We'll be using our blog as a space [...]
Welcome back to #WeddingWednesday, our semi weekly column where we bring you wedding tips, tricks, crafts, interviews and interesting Chicago wedding happenings. This week we’re all about style! Bridal-style that is. Karen Marie Salon in Chicago is full of trendsetting stylists and makeup artists with years of experience making brides look their stylin' best on their wedding [...]
As anyone who has been to Catalyst Ranch knows, there is nowhere else quite like Catalyst Ranch. And now we are pleased to unveil our brand new website that highlights just how unique the Ranch truly is. The new site was created by our designer of all things digital, (and frequent guest blogger) Kristin Neperud Merz [...]
We're big fans of Mikki Williams here at Catalyst Ranch! In fact you may remember her from her event here back in May called "We Interrupt This Life To Bring You...". For those of you who couldn't make it out to that awesome workshop, Mikki is a multi-talentented, multi-hyphenate with big hair and even bigger ideas. [...]
Welcome back to #WeddingWednesday, our semi weekly column where we bring you wedding tips, tricks, crafts, interviews and interesting Chicago wedding happenings. This week we're all about wedding invitations. Your wedding invitation can immediately set the tone for your wedding and give your guests a fun preview of what the event will be. It's a your [...]