About a year and a half ago, I started making an afghan. I chose to make small squares, and I thought that this would be a quick process. (insert the sound of a buzzer). As it turns out, I couldn’t have been more wrong. This afghan requires more than 200 small squares, and I am
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In the past four months or so, I have discovered the joy of collage. It’s a great way to preserve images without having stacks of magazines, brochures, etc., taking up space in your home. The fun of collage is combining similar images to create a theme or somewhat different images to tell a story. It
Today’s prompt is to talk about tools that make my work easier. These tools should be things that I consider to be indispensible. Actually, the prompt ws to talk about one tool, but, well, I couldn’t pick just one, so there’s that. Well, I would think that my imagination would suffice. I think that it’s
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Today’s prompt is to create a list of things that you could do to nurture your creativity. In this case, it’s all about the brainstorming process. Step one: choose how you want to be creative. Do you want to write a story, draw or paint a picture, sew, embroider, do other fabric arts, cook or
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This month, I took a four-session series of art classes at Starlight Studio and Art Gallery on sketchbooks. Starlight offers instruction for people who have disabilities. It gives them a chance to creatively express themselves in a supportive environment. Each session focused on a different topic. The really cool thing was that all art supplies,
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Today, there was an open house at Orange Poppy Art Studio. So, I decided to go, despite the fact that it would probably rain. When I arrived, I saw that my sister Diane was there and was busily painting a wooden box in a variety of colors. I found a wooden egg, and I started
Maybe about a year and a half ago, I was given some little skeins of yarn. It was the most wonderful yarn: very light and very colorful. I immediately became enamored of that yarn and I decided to create an afghan that was a rainbow of color. I’ve been thinking about changing the way that
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One fun art project is to depict the same subject in four different ways. It’s a really enjoyable thing to do and it helps you stretch your creativity. And so, I did exactly that. I started off with an ink drawing that I made in response to the Inktober week six prompt, which was “granny.”
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How do you express yourself in a time of fear? What do you say when your world has been broken apart by official pronouncements of us vs. them, and the them is really us? How do you catch courage? How do you listen and understand and hope when you feel that all hope has fled?
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Yesterday evening, I had the opportunity to go to the Orange Poppy Art Studio for a fun craft workshop. It was the first time I had been out of my apartment building since Sunday, so I was really excited to go. The activity was fun and relaxing. It was all about wrapping cones with yarn
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