I’ve always loved fair isle jumpers. They’re the ones with the stranded colour work around the shoulder, sometimes on the sleeves and around the bottom on the rib. Northern Europeans seem to love them. In Australia, if you’re seen wearing one, you’re likely to be mocked. “Did your mum buy you that jumper?” If you […]
Testing out WordPress App Story Posts
Mucking about with the mobile WordPress app in my hammock this afternoon, I saw the “Story Post” option which looks like you can create basic stories and upload these as pages onto your blog. I’ve been using the stories feature for many years (with Snapchat – and blogged about this many times in this blog) […]
My New Back Yard Project
I wish my backyard looked like this! Last year we decided that as we can’t travel overseas, we may as well bring the overseas to us. As such, our plan was to landscape the back yard and make it into a space where we enjoy being outside. In the past, our back yard was a […]
Little Video Snippets
I’ve always loved recording videos and some years back, taking daily videos on what I was learning and experimenting on (using Snapchat) was the way I preferred to communicate. I have written how I used this platform (truth be told, you can actually use ANY platform but I preferred Snapchat as it captured the “time” […]
Creative Challenge – Day 23
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) and thinking I may have missed a day somewhere. No matter. Today she asks us: During this busy time of year, did you have time to respond to all of them and make stuff, or were some or all of them treated as thought-exercises that could only be responded […]
Creative Challenge – Day 22
I am doing Meredith Lewis Creative Challenge – an advent calendar of daily creative prompts and today it’s to recreate an artwork using materials around you. I’m a great fan of Vermeer. Some years ago I was a Rotary Vocational Exchange Program participant for some weeks in the Netherlands. My time on exchange meant that […]
Creative Challenge – Day 21
I am doing Meredith Lewis daily creative prompt challenge for the month of December. Today she encourages us to answer the question: “How important are the following questions to you when you assign values of success or failure to your work?” Here goes. This is TOUGH to answer but these are questions I have often […]
Creative Challenge – Day 20
I’m doing Meredith Lewis daily creative prompt challenge. Today, she’s asked us to imagine what the colour of lilac would taste, feel, sound like – to pretend we are a synesthete. I’ve often wondered how people can have this skill and what it would fee like. I feel overwhelmed with my current senses at times […]
Objects of Affection
For the last few months, I’ve been watching various YouTube channels that follow quite creative and inspiring people to share stories about objects around their home. I’m not a minimalist by any stretch of the imagination. However, on the one hand, I don’t like clutter and on the other hand, I also like a house […]
Creative Challenge – Day 19
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge and for today’s activity, it’s to banish this ugly looking demon who has stifled and prevented my creative endeavours. Bloody hell it’s you again. You’ve reared your ugly head again just at the time when I thought of a new idea that I was getting […]
Creative Challenge – Day 18
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge and today it’s to face up to someone who has criticised or prevented us from our creative expressions. That was an easy challenge for today’s prompt because it’s so evident in my life that the turning point for me was early in my career when […]
Creative Challenge – Day 17
I am doing Meredith Lewis daily creative prompts for December and today’s challenge is to: List at least five different supportive people who can support you in your creative endeavours, whatever they may be. And if you can’t, list some ways in which you might find them. Wow, this is a tough one. I’ve long […]
Creative Challenge – Day 16
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative challenge for the month of December and today it was to “memorise a poem”. It’s fair to say that poetry hasn’t been an interest of mine in my life. I think it’s because of bad school memories of English class having to read and interpret poems. To […]
Creative Challenge – Day 15
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) creative challenge for the month of December where she sends us a creative prompt every day. Today it’s to reflect on the activities that absorbed us as a: Young child Young adult Right now What’s the pattern? This activity is referenced from Etienne Fang who has a brilliant website […]
Creative Challenge – Day 14
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge and today it’s to make up a story or scenario using the following painting by Berthold Woltze called The Irritating Gentleman. My first thought when I saw this (and I have never seen this painting before) is it’s a typical scene from many young women’s […]
Creative Challenge – Day 13
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) creative prompt challenge every day in December. So far these have been excellent to trigger some reflections but today’s one is something I’m unsure in expressing so openly for fear of what it may mean to my friends, work and networks. As a creative person, what is in your […]
Creative Challenge – Day 12
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompts for the month of December and for Sunday, it was to create my own spell that reclaims my creative identity. I’ve been thinking about this one for the last day or two and decided that I’m going to give it a miss. Why? I’ve never been […]
Creative Challenge – Day 11
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge for December and today, the task she asks us to do is: “Today I would like you to reflect on your own creative identity and your relationship with that: how do you perceive yourself to be creative?” She asks us to think about it in […]
Creative Challenge – Day 10
I am doing Meredith Lewis Daily December challenge where she prompts us to get creative every day. Today is a bit of a cop out for me because I simply ran out of time. I hate using this as an excuse usually because I’m always a believer that if something is important to you, you’ll […]
Creative Challenge – Day 9
I am doing Meredith Lewis Creative Challenge every day for December where she inspires us to do something – and write something creative. In today’s challenge, we are encouraged to get drawing our maps. It could be a map of our life, something we want to do, anything really. I love maps but when the […]