Today I made earrings. I had some sterling silver post earrings I never wore, so added buttons to them then put a little denim on top of the buttons. I think I used too much Gorilla glue, will have to watch it next time. Still, I like them!
Today I made mittens. I had some leftover fabric from when I made the kids; quilts this past Christmas and decided to use it for my mittens. This fabric is so soft and fluffy and warm. I put the fluffy side on the inside. The cuffs I reconstructed from an old jacket my sons used [...]
I’m doing <a href=”http://thing-a-day.com/”>Thing-A-Day 2010</a>. Today I made a new logo for my biz. or rather an updated one, I’m still using the hand-drawn flower motif but in shades of blue now instead of different colors. Will tweak in a bit.
Thing-a-day is a yearly creative sprint that is held every February and brings together hundreds of creative minds. The idea is simple: sign up is open to anyone and participants commit to create one new thing a day every day for the entire month of February and post it on the collective blog. Participants can [...]
So I started the Artist’s Way again, as I’ve mentioned. Currently on my week 4…
“I learned to recognize the qualities I admire in myself in others.” How I did it: I figure out where all the people like me are hiding…they are hiding in plain sight doing the things I like to do! So I did it by going places that involve the things I am interested in doing. [...]
I mentioned before that I am doing the Artist’s Way, an awesome book by Julia Cameron that helps one tap into creativity and lead a creative life. I first read it about 9 years ago, and it totally rocked my world and helped me to name and claim that I am a writer and to [...]
Difficult as it is to remember, it is our work that creates the market, not the market that creates our work. ~Julia Cameron Lightbulb! I am re-doing The Artist’s Way and when I read this it struck me with it’s truth. This is so true. I think a big part of the reason why I [...]
I can barely stand for people to look at me now. I think if I were famous, even a little bit, it would drive me crazy. There comes a point with fame where you almost have to be rich just to live a normal life…for example today during one of my sons’ birthday party we [...]
This looks interesting: Staccato is all about microfiction. Launched in Athens, Georgia, in 2005 as a semiannual print magazine, the editors soon realized that their small print-runs weren’t enough and they could deliver microfiction to more readers more efficiently (not to mention cheaper) if they focused their efforts online. Relaunched in 2009 out of Brooklyn, [...]
I’m not doing the daily pic project anymore but every now and then I like to take a photo of myself. Seems like I feel most inclined to do so when I have pressing work to do. Avoiding work by taking pics of myself *lame* even still, I like these two. Back to work, I’m [...]
I needed this big plastic jar for something, so decided to take the pennies inside up to the grocery store which has a Coinstar machine. Coinstars, in case you don’t know, are machines that count out your change. Then you get either a gift certificate for full value or the cash minus 9%. I was [...]
President Carter made recent remarks regarding some of the virulent opposition against President Obama, in short saying that he believes some of it is rooted in racism. On the Morning Joe show today hosts Joe Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski flat-out refuted this to be even a possibility. I watched the Morning Joe show this [...]
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. [...]
Your comments on my posts are invaluable feedback. Comments let me know what people think and feel about what I write. I also get an idea of what people want featured on this blog. This helps me to make this blog the interactive resource I want it be instead of me just running my mouth. [...]
I like to blog about other creative people often. Sculptor John Leon lives in my hometown of Cincinnati, and his work is very good. I can’t recall how I came across his work, I think someone had a pic of one of his statues on flickr. More info about John from his site: He started [...]
Still working on Futuristic Motherhood stuff, I had planned to be done this past weekend but other things got in the way. Sending out the email to the other writers today though! It’s extremely frustrating to me that this is taking so long, so I can only imagine how they feel. In other news I [...]
Today I’m making final touches to the Futuristic Motherhood book, including my own story by Mercury Lynch. This weekend I need to email all the writers and coordinate some things.
I find that I get much more work done when I treat my writing as a job and stick to a schedule. It’s fall again which means adjusting to the school year, and my work schedule has changed. I also have to factor in my gym time too. But just off the top of my [...]
I used to redirect my domain for my Mercury Lynch stuff here, but since then have done only a few posts about science fiction. Mercury is more than my pen name for science fiction, she’s my alter ego LOL. So now my sci-fi stuff will be on Night Visions, the blog of Mercury Lynch. enjoy!
I’m participating in Utata Storytellers! This is a neat project of fiction, non-fiction, and adaptations based on photographs. From the site: Utata Storytellers is the BIG PROJECT for 2009. Past BIG PROJECTS include Utata Speaks ’06, The Utatan and Utata Speaks ’08. The Utata Storytellers project is your chance to tell a story, spin a [...]
I just got into Sudoku this year, thanks to my husband. He was always doing the ones in the newspaper, after awhile it piqued my curiosity. I tend not to like puzzles of this sort because I am a very slow thinker, but I do like numbers and sudoku is actually quite fun. It took [...]
9 days left in August, I feel like this month is just flying by! So much work done, so much to do. I truly feel at my creative best now, the most this year. The surge and fullness of summer is in me, alongside impending anticipation of fall. So may changes happened this year. I [...]
I burned a bunch of my old journal/diary notherbooks. I felt such a sense of freedom and relief watching them burn. but also, sadness.
You know what going crazy feels like? falling asleep. Except you don’t go to sleep. I told my doc that & she shook her head LOL. Actually I didn’t ‘go crazy’ I just had a mere breakdown of the nerves back in February. Moving on from it sure feels good.
Pic of me at our cabin in Maine. This trip was just what I needed; I feel mentally refreshed and back on track. see more pics here
ok time to get started on this goal, going to do it in chunks of 20: 1. brown eyes2. long dreadlocks3. black hair4. brown skin5. favorite color is pink6. capricorn7. big feet8. knot-kneed9. lucid dreamer10. vegetarian11. creative12. writer13. gardener14. eco-friendly15. quilter16. DIY lifestyle liver17. frugal18. ambitious19. night owl20. united states citizen See more progress on: [...]
A flickr contact I know posted recently about wanting to be a creative person. She yearned to create something great and powerful that would have a tremendous impact on people. She expressed that she did not know how to go about doing this, but she felt she had great art inside of her. The problem [...]
Lately I have been feeling resentful of having to sleep. Sleep really does feel like sometimes like one long interruption of stuff I want to do. Sometimes I’ll push myself writing until I’m ragged, until I have to sleep. This is not good, and could trigger insomnia. I used to have terrible insomnia for years [...]
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