Creative Play Newsletter – Taking Stock
I’m still in my period of planning and assessment, trying to figure out what my new studio practice looks like now that I have a full-time job and a commute (though it seems like it’s only a matter of time before the order to work from home to avoid the …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Managing Change
The challenge I am working on this month is fitting a creative practice into an already busy schedule. I have had the luxury of time over the last few years and that time has been invaluable as I have explored my voice as an artist, worked in series, and hung …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Getting SMART about Creativity
Was one of your New Year’s Resolutions to make more time for creativity? Great! Let’s talk about how to make that happen. New Year’s Resolutions are notoriously difficult to achieve and a high proportion of people drop them before the calendar page is even turned to February. Why? Well, one …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Not that you needed another book recommendation . . .
December is a time for Top 10 lists and best-of-the-year lists, either because the year is ending and it’s a good time to look back over the previous 12 months, or more likely it’s a marketing tool designed to sell things. (I suppose everything is in our capitalist society though.) …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Walk Through the Door
Last month I wrote about committing to your creativity, but the commitment is just the first step and the one that comes next can be scary. Because what comes next after making the commitment to your art and to yourself as an artist (even if that title doesn’t feel like …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Commit to Creativity
Six months ago I wrote about an article by David Brooks in which he introduced the idea of a second mountain in life, the one of meaning and purpose that an individual begins to ascend when they understand that the first mountain of achievement and financial reward is not the …
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New Lecture – “Let’s Play!”
Last week, I presented at the New England Quilt Museum‘s Meet the Teachers Day, but I was also there wearing my second hat as part of the programming committee for my guild (the Rising Star Quilters). I talked with a few other program chairs about the challenges we face filling …
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#HappierLaborDay
I have been listening to a podcast lately called “Side Hustle School” (still trying to find the magic bullet that will allow me to have an income from doing what I love, but alas, I think quilting is going to have to go back to being a side hustle). In …
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Creative Play Newsletter – New Beginnings
In last month’s newsletter, I discussed how to bring on spring after suffering through the dark time of a creative winter. I wrote about beginning new projects and the process for getting started. I missed the connection at the time, but that turns out to have been a very appropriate …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Bringing on Spring
Last month I wrote about the seasons of creativity and discussed how normal it is to go through cycles of active creation and rest. But, if you find yourself in a creative winter like I do right now, how do you bring on the creative spring? Start a new project! …
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