Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
24 by 24
So I turned 23 back in May, and since then I’ve been putting together my 24 by 24. I really love having this list because it helps to keep me focused when I loose some motivation or inspiration!
1. Make a coffee date dress
2. Loose 12kg (total, since start of WW- am currently at 6KG lost)
3. Go to Europe!
4. Taken out a huge bank loan for our investments.
5. Read through 3 more books of the bible
6. Drink at lest 1L of water every day.
7. Keep Shabbat better
8. Start an online shop of my bags/crafts
9. Fit into my skinny jeans again
10. Hold an art exhibition
11. Continue with my Creative 365 and post every day
12. Cook at least one new meal each week
13. Create more screencasts and tutorials for this blog
14. Scrapbook our Europe holiday
15. Play at least 2 songs (well) on the saxaphone
16. Develop a (free) creative thinking online PD for teachers
17. Expand my fabric stash
18. FINALLY buy Nigella seeds- I have to be able to get them from somewhere!!
20. Sell something in my etsy shop
21. Publish and distribute a ‘zine
22. Support Luke in his creative endeavours
23. Become an ‘expert’ bread maker (read: not have to buy any bread from the shops again, just live off bread I make)
24. ‘Finish’ my photo/”C” wall
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Tags: 24, birthday, inspiration, list, todo
Drawing Releases My Creativity
I come from a creative family. My childhood involved a lot of painting (on paper, ourselves, and the veranda), dress-ups, collage, and projects with boxes. We had a box in the cupboard which was always full of old cereal boxes, egg cartons, toilet rolls and other handy bits like ribbon and paint. Each christmas we’d make things to decorate the house, and at the start of the year we’d make covers for our books.
Despite all this creativity, I was never good at drawing. I still did it though. Sometimes. But Rhys was the drawer. In fact, I think he was generally considered to be the creative one. Though we all had our creative quirks.
I’ve always like art. Painting mostly, and now I’m also into ‘crafts’- which is good, because I can learn so much of that from Nanna. It’s been a while since I painted. Despite the encouragement from my husband- I just haven’t had time. When I finish work I want to crash, not be creative and alive. Lets face it, being creative makes you alive. At least it does for me.
In the last few months I’ve been feeling more then a little creatively drained. I can’t think of anything in particular that has drained me, but I think that exhaustion/busy-ness is what’s stopped the creativity flow through me. I was feeling dead. In the last few weeks though, I’ve been slowly, slowly increasing my creative levels, and in the process, my happiness. I’ve done this through drawing. :-O
I’m not a particularly good drawer. I can see things, and put them onto paper, which I guess is drawing… But I’m best at copying. So what I’ve been doing, is forcing myself, every 1-2 days to draw/copy something.
Sometimes I scan the inter-webs for cute pictures, and I print them out and copy them. That’s copy, not trace. They’re still a little bit of me- and I get comfortable with the way pictures work, and I trust myself to draw cute things. The first time I did it, the other week, it was the most amazingly crazy experience. As in, my world was thrown upside down and my brain was going crazy- like it hadn’t in so long. I may have been drawing things that other people had thought of, but I was still utalising that Right side of my brain!! It was indescribably. I guess (I don’t know) it would be something like being high… My work was spinning, and there were colours everywhere, and the words people said were beautiful typography… oh wait, that’s just normal life…
The point of all this is to say, if you’re feeling a little creatively drained, then pick up a pen, draw some squiggles (even if they’re of nothing), and let the creativity flow!
Tags: copy cat, creative, drawing, inspiration, painting
Inspiration…
I have these photos that I need to scrapbook for our holiday scrapbook. I don’t particularly want to do something the same as all the others, and I don’t want to put in HEAPS of papers, cause they’re expensive. Any ideas or inspiration to give?
Page 1:
This is at Nimrod's Fortress. It's the biggest fortress/stronghold in Israel. The tank is from a war...
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This is from quad biking up to the top of a mountain. The peacocks are from the Kabutz we stayed at that night.
Tags: help, inspiration, photography, scrapbooking
