To me, creating is getting rid of the pain of being nagged at with all those ideas in my head; once the story is written or the quilt/costume done, I (mostly) forget about it. Lately I haven't been very creative and it's kind of a relief.
But it's also worrisome since I've always been creative and lately I just don't feel like it.
:) You make it sound like creativity is a disease. LOL.
Hunh. Do you know where you get your inspiration? Or how you work best? I read this great thing once about someone's creative process. That might have been in Larkin Jean Van Horn's booklet about beading. Not sure. I will see if I can find it later. In the meantime, try not to worry too much. You could just be soaking up all the inspiration.
I can get inspiration from anything - a song, a bird's wing in flight, Colin's smile, the color of a sky at dusk, legends, laughter, the smell of chocolate cookies fresh from the oven. Anything.
I think I work best when I'm pressed to do something. If I know I've promised a thing, I try and deliver it. But lately I haven't been promising much and it's both concerning me and making me relax a bit.
I think a lot of people go through phases, sometimes a few days long, sometimes years. I'm not sure if I want the phase to be short or long. I'm into reading and traveling and that seems to be good enough for now!
Hey, I was thinking of trying to start a smallish group of people who would be interested in doing something like ATC (artist trading cards), but maybe not limited to cards? I was thinking it would be 3-4 times a year and we would just do a more round-robin sort of thing where we just make one thing for someone in the group rather than one thing for everyone (round robin isn't the right term). Would you be interested? I haven't had the time to think about how to organize it yet.
That sounds like a great idea but I'm not sure I would want to do that. I tend to go off in other directions. Would it be quilting? If so, I'd rather give something to someone else than get anything (which is what a round robin implies). I'd have to think about it more before I could say yes - and right now things are just so disjointed and chaotic what with both my kids moving out and other things, that I just can't commit to anything at the moment. Sorry.
Oooh, you bring up an excellent point. I don't want anything either. I am notorious for giving stuff away. I will have to think about it. I was just thinking about inspiration and how if there was a group, that might give you some structure.
I am not in any hurry to set something up, in any event. It won't happen until September at the earliest. I'll keep thinking.
Also, no wonder you haven't had any inspiration lately! Your life is in major upheaval!
But it's also worrisome since I've always been creative and lately I just don't feel like it.
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Hunh. Do you know where you get your inspiration? Or how you work best? I read this great thing once about someone's creative process. That might have been in Larkin Jean Van Horn's booklet about beading. Not sure. I will see if I can find it later. In the meantime, try not to worry too much. You could just be soaking up all the inspiration.
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I think I work best when I'm pressed to do something. If I know I've promised a thing, I try and deliver it. But lately I haven't been promising much and it's both concerning me and making me relax a bit.
I think a lot of people go through phases, sometimes a few days long, sometimes years. I'm not sure if I want the phase to be short or long. I'm into reading and traveling and that seems to be good enough for now!
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I am not in any hurry to set something up, in any event. It won't happen until September at the earliest. I'll keep thinking.
Also, no wonder you haven't had any inspiration lately! Your life is in major upheaval!
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