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Ah, it’s been quite the last couple weeks transition into Summer. I was keeping up with everything and then all of a sudden , I wasn’t. On June First I had started a Creativity Bootcamp Challenge and I did well to get up to the craftroom and dust off my pastels and glue bottles and…
So I set out with some very specific intentions about how I needed this month to look. I said I wanted it to be about taking care of me. And Boy Howdy, I’d say I did that and then some. There was the Creativity Bootcamp that I knew I’d be participating in for the month…
There’s a little cat that we’ve cared for for the last fifteen years. She recently took a turn for the worse. Hair matted, skinny as a skeleton. We’ve never been able to touch her until this past Christmas. Because she didn’t know petting was something she’d like and had been missing. You can’t want what…
Day three of Creativity Bootcamp 2016 had me making my third collage with the prompt I set ahead. I wrote 8 prompts out so that I would not balk for inspiration the moment I stepped up to the craft table. This first collage was prompted by “Green”.As I began to gather my paper pieces, the…
Today is the first day of the Second Creativity Bootcamp hosted by Jane Barry and her blog That Curious Love of Green. I mentioned that I’d be participating in this on Friday’s post entitled Blogging For the Love of Me in February and I thought I’d go ahead and share with you what this intention…
On Monday I am beginning a month of intention. I decided to shape the month of February’s posts around “Self-Love”. Self-discovery and positivity is often my mode of thinking and I’d consciously like to spend this month supporting myself in this work to become a fuller happier person. Asking questions and pondering the answers is…
Before the Creativity Bootcamp started, I laid out an outline of what I might like to try to do during each week. Creative practices that I usually have a hard time giving myself permission to do could have an excuse now to be explored. The first week of the challenge, I continued on the collage…
The week ended with a creative bang. I finished out the collage challenge with pieces prompted by ‘color’ and ‘portrait’. I felt a momentum building during the week. Where the first day had been hard to pull it out, the last two were just “get it done, one, two, three kinda” experiences. And then I…
The universe is apparently trying to tell me something. The theme which I found in my random readings today? Boldness. According to social science research, men tend to be a little more arrogant and succeed more often because they are bolder. I listened to this brief interview from NPR. Women are more humble and will…
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