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A Year of Creativity : Weeks 10 & 13

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

Week 10: “Show the world your magic” One of the things I’m most fond of is taking photos and I can take hundreds and hundreds because digital cameras allow me that flexibility and that ability. I was really pleased with this photo – it was one of 20 or 30 that I took that day. [...]

A Year of Creativity : Week 8

Sunday, March 3rd, 2013

I don’t know why but I don’t seem to get all the email messages that are sent out (and I have checked Spam etc) but they are quite an inspiration when I do eventually get them. I didn’t receive 7 (and can’t seem to find anything online that will point me back to that creative [...]

A Year of Creativity: Week 5

Sunday, February 17th, 2013

Sell Your Cleverness and Buy Bewilderment The prompt encouraged me to explore a new craft. As I’ve tried quite a lot of things, there wasn’t much that I could choose from but I decided on watercolour. Let me tell you, it is harder than it looks! I started off with a blank page, palette of [...]

A Year of Creativity : Weeks 3 & 4

Sunday, February 3rd, 2013

As part of the Year of Creativity project, participants get sent an email with some things to think about each week. Last week, we had some creative exercises to warm up our creative muscles. Here is my take on the question posed: How many uses can you think of for a drinking straw? 1. Emergency [...]

A Year of Creativity: Weeks 1 & 2

Sunday, January 13th, 2013

Just after New Year’s, I made a pledge to make 2013 a year of creativity and thought I’d stop and reflect a moment to see how it is going so far. Week 1: “Art? You just do it!” (Martin Ritt) I think I have started the year with some good and realistic craft goals. Just [...]

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