inspiring a playfully creative life
If we were in mainstream schooling, Mr12 would be in highschool this year – a whole new world of independence. Even without school in the mix, his calendar is becoming increasingly full…which means mine is also becoming full! Chess club this day, drama class that day, don’t forget radio every week and film every fortnight. I swear I run out of ink in my green
If there is one thing I love about the creative life, it is the sheer playfulness of making something for no other reason than to get my hands dirty and make something, regardless of the outcome. It doesn’t need to be perfect, whatever I end up making. It just needs to BE. I recognised my creative restlessness when I was setting up my list for
Over the weekend, I started to write a blog post. By “started”, I mean I uploaded a photo and then stared at the white text box, not sure where to start. After a while, I figured it was a lost cause, and went in search of an old blog post that I knew I wanted to link into the one I was attempting to write.
There’s a certain form of conversation that one has with one’s creative enablers, that balances on a knife edge. It could fall either way, but chances are something (or, knowing me, someONE), is likely to get cut… Now that we are out of the baby & toddler stage, I no longer need to cart a heap of stuff with us every time we leave the
I’m not sure how long it has been since I have been this productive. In what I think is a personal record, I have managed to get my day in the life photos not only printed, but completely documented a whole eight days after I took the photos. Procraftinating at it’s finest…though I did convince myself I was actually cleaning, since I “needed” to finish the
Despite my good intentions each year, my daily projects often fall by the wayside within a few weeks. This year, however, my morning stitches project is still going strong! This project has been so fun! There have been a minor couple of hiccups – namely, the first two weeks of the year none of my apps offered up min/max data, so I had to manually seek
Whilst not quite as productive as January on the book front, I still managed to knock out a respectable 5 books during the month, which I am happy with. It was such a mixed up month, that I wasn’t sure how much I would manage, so I am happy with five. (As always, the book links are affliate – I receive a small income if
Around this time of year, blogs, and more commonly these days, instagrm stories start lighting up with some of my favourite projects to see – Day In The Life. I am such a stickybeak, I love seeing how other people run their days, though more often than not I end up feeling rather inadequate, and like everyone else has their act together far more than
Back in the day, I used to do a weekly post sharing an overview of my week, and also linking some of the fun things I had found floating around the internet in the past week – a wrap up post that was reasonably common among bloggers. Then blogging started dying, as everyone migrated to Instagram, and there was less blog posts to chose from
There is something enchantingly motivating about a disgustingly spotlessly clean craft room. Nary a loose thread to be seen on the floor, no scraps of paper floating around the desk, exactly zero tails of yarn trailing from the basket on the bottom shelf. So stinkin’ spotless I willingly allowed people in to photograph it to share with strangers. AND, for bonus points, I kept it
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