Barely a week of March has passed and I'm already struggling with this challenge! Although in fairness my life is not being easy to get along with. It isn't a complete bust... yet.
So loyal readers, can you send me some positive creative type vibes? Then maybe I can knuckle down and actually get to some creating!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Day 2 and 3 - something different
I missed a day of blogging, but not a day of some kind of creative pursuit. I frankly am not doing as much as I would like to be doing, but weekends are never a good time in my house!
On Friday I spent some time fiddling around with PCStitch. It is a computer program designed to help you create your own cross stitch and embroidery patterns. In recent times I have used grid type designs to make polymer clay canes, so cross stitch patterns work well.
I have a friend who has an Eclectus Parrot and I wanted to do a cane of one, so I found a couple of pictures and had a bit of a fiddle.
I think I like the second one better, although it has more colours and squares, meaning it will be more complicated to create... woot... a challenge!
Today I didn't think I was going to get to anything creative, until my house guest and bestie decided she wanted her nails done. That's creative... right? So first I applied her first set of fake nails, and then she decided that the pretty french tip wasn't enough and wanted them bright yellow. Who am I to argue! LOL Then she wanted sparkles, but couldn't decide on which sparkles, so we chose two. So now she has awesome looking nails!
Not to be outdone I did my nails too. I was just going to paint them, but then I decided to go with fakes as well.
Now I never said that being creative meant making jewellery or playing with polymer clay!
Let's see what tomorrow brings!
On Friday I spent some time fiddling around with PCStitch. It is a computer program designed to help you create your own cross stitch and embroidery patterns. In recent times I have used grid type designs to make polymer clay canes, so cross stitch patterns work well.
I have a friend who has an Eclectus Parrot and I wanted to do a cane of one, so I found a couple of pictures and had a bit of a fiddle.
I think I like the second one better, although it has more colours and squares, meaning it will be more complicated to create... woot... a challenge!
Today I didn't think I was going to get to anything creative, until my house guest and bestie decided she wanted her nails done. That's creative... right? So first I applied her first set of fake nails, and then she decided that the pretty french tip wasn't enough and wanted them bright yellow. Who am I to argue! LOL Then she wanted sparkles, but couldn't decide on which sparkles, so we chose two. So now she has awesome looking nails!
Not to be outdone I did my nails too. I was just going to paint them, but then I decided to go with fakes as well.
Now I never said that being creative meant making jewellery or playing with polymer clay!
Let's see what tomorrow brings!
Friday, March 2, 2012
Day 1 - Here we go
The first day of March has come and gone, and did I do anything creative? Yes, I did. However it wasn't really anything that can be shown.
I designed a necklace for a competition, ergo I cannot show it. It is a secret.
I also removed the paint from the faces of several dolls ready to repaint. Naked doll faces are not all that interesting, unless you are like me.
My house guest claimed I hadn't done anything creative, but I beg to differ. It is part of my creative process, therefore it is being creative. Hopefully soon I will have something interesting to show.
I designed a necklace for a competition, ergo I cannot show it. It is a secret.
I also removed the paint from the faces of several dolls ready to repaint. Naked doll faces are not all that interesting, unless you are like me.
My house guest claimed I hadn't done anything creative, but I beg to differ. It is part of my creative process, therefore it is being creative. Hopefully soon I will have something interesting to show.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Motivation for March
After several months of limited creative mojo I have decided that I need to do something to make the situation change. So I have set myself the challenge of doing some sort of creation every day for the month of March. I know lots of folk who are doing challenges like '365 days of Creativity', but I figured that was setting myself up for huge failure. LOL
I have tried similar challenges before and they always seem to go for so long that it becomes an overwhelming task, which results in a lack of results. To my mind, 31 days is a lot easier to achieve.
My intention is to blog every day, but I am all too aware of the reality that that may not happen. I will endeavour to do so though, as well as recording my creations in photographic form. I am not expecting to necessarily finish a creation a day, this is more about just doing something creative every day, nurturing the artist within.
I am only to happy to have fellow creative types join me for this little challenge. If you do join me be sure to post a link to your blog so I can follow along with you, and I will also promote you to my other readers.
So, stay tuned. And may the Muse be kind to all.
I have tried similar challenges before and they always seem to go for so long that it becomes an overwhelming task, which results in a lack of results. To my mind, 31 days is a lot easier to achieve.
My intention is to blog every day, but I am all too aware of the reality that that may not happen. I will endeavour to do so though, as well as recording my creations in photographic form. I am not expecting to necessarily finish a creation a day, this is more about just doing something creative every day, nurturing the artist within.
I am only to happy to have fellow creative types join me for this little challenge. If you do join me be sure to post a link to your blog so I can follow along with you, and I will also promote you to my other readers.
So, stay tuned. And may the Muse be kind to all.
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