Creative Play Newsletter – Breaking Out of the January Rut with Creativity
The holiday rush is over and it’s back to business-as-usual. Am I the only one who finds it hard to get moving in January without the adrenaline-fueled To Do list of December? I’ve tried motivating with a crop of New Year’s Resolutions, but those never last long. Now instead, I …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Processing
Last month, I wrote about the chronic stress that we have all been under because of the pandemic and the creativity killer this has been for so many of us. This month, I have a solution to recommend. I read in the New York Times Sunday Review and editorial entitled …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Brain Fog
I had a meeting this week at work of the textile crafting group. (Yes, textile crafting librarians – totally my tribe!) We were talking about our COVID brains and how hard it has been to focus. None of us have been able to tackle anything new or complicated in over …
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Got My Creative MoJo Back!
Finally! After all these months of not feeling very creative and not being interested in doing any quilting, my creative energy just rushed back into my life yesterday afternoon. In the space of a few hours I: Finished the top for the UFO Swap I’ve been doing with the Rising …
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Creative Play Newsletter – COVID Block
I have heard from so many fellow artists that they are having trouble creating right now. And, it’s no wonder since every single one of us is under stress unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before. At the same time, many of us feel like we should be producing a lot …
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2016 Projects – #BringItHome – Playroom
This week, I finally finished one of the items on my to do list to “finish” a room. All I needed to do was to hang pictures in my daughter’s playroom, which is now done. Here’s the Before picture, from the night we moved into the house: A year and …
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