My Freedom: Prompt sixteen
Today's Blog Prompt says:" Tell your Blog readers about someone in your life who has been a creative influence - a crafty mum, aunt or grandparent, an influential school teacher or a friend who brought out your creative side, perhaps."
This has made me look quite searchingly at people in my life. The biggest influence has been Mr M. simply because he has been my rock since the first day we were together. He gave me the strength to be me and the courage to try all the things I thought I might like but didn't have the guts to try on my own. He did this for my children too. They have all turned to him rather than their birth father because they know that whatever Mr M says today he will say next week and next year and next decade. He doesn't lie and he doesn't make promises he can't keep and if he does say "I promise" then we know it will happen. With that sort of security and stability the world is my cockle and I can let my creative side have free rein.
An artistic influence is Xothique (I wish I could to that linky thing with the names) who did a picture called "The Other End of the Rainbow". I could see it as a quilt so I asked her permission to re-create her work in fabric and she said yes. You can't get more generous than that! I worked on that quilt for a long time and during the course of the work I had ideas for other quilts all of which I have completed and some I have sold. I still have my "Rainbow" quilt and I will be handing it down to one of my children as an heirloom. It wasn't just the creativeness but the generosity that makes this person so special, truly someone it is a privilege to call friend.
Some times it is a word or a phrase that someone says that gives you the push you need to take your creativity to a higher level and that happened when we were creating what is now known as the "First Grand Tribunal". I had a writing credit for that freeform although I don't think I did write that much BUT Pax_Draconis would sit at my table and talk plot while I was getting dinner ready or sewing costumes or writing something for the FH journal. I would comment or laugh or screw up my nose depending on whether I thought something would work and he would go off to work or home and write several more characters. He said, as an aside as he went through the door one evening "You make things so much clearer" and it was that little phrase that ensured that I played my character as well as I could.
My granny taught me to knit, crochet, embroider and tat. My grandad taught me to splice rope and weave fishing nets. My Dad taught me to turn wood on a lathe and to grind valves and replace piston rings. My mum taught me to read everything and to write letters and my three special people have given me the creative freedom to use all my knowledge to be me.
This has made me look quite searchingly at people in my life. The biggest influence has been Mr M. simply because he has been my rock since the first day we were together. He gave me the strength to be me and the courage to try all the things I thought I might like but didn't have the guts to try on my own. He did this for my children too. They have all turned to him rather than their birth father because they know that whatever Mr M says today he will say next week and next year and next decade. He doesn't lie and he doesn't make promises he can't keep and if he does say "I promise" then we know it will happen. With that sort of security and stability the world is my cockle and I can let my creative side have free rein.
An artistic influence is Xothique (I wish I could to that linky thing with the names) who did a picture called "The Other End of the Rainbow". I could see it as a quilt so I asked her permission to re-create her work in fabric and she said yes. You can't get more generous than that! I worked on that quilt for a long time and during the course of the work I had ideas for other quilts all of which I have completed and some I have sold. I still have my "Rainbow" quilt and I will be handing it down to one of my children as an heirloom. It wasn't just the creativeness but the generosity that makes this person so special, truly someone it is a privilege to call friend.
Some times it is a word or a phrase that someone says that gives you the push you need to take your creativity to a higher level and that happened when we were creating what is now known as the "First Grand Tribunal". I had a writing credit for that freeform although I don't think I did write that much BUT Pax_Draconis would sit at my table and talk plot while I was getting dinner ready or sewing costumes or writing something for the FH journal. I would comment or laugh or screw up my nose depending on whether I thought something would work and he would go off to work or home and write several more characters. He said, as an aside as he went through the door one evening "You make things so much clearer" and it was that little phrase that ensured that I played my character as well as I could.
My granny taught me to knit, crochet, embroider and tat. My grandad taught me to splice rope and weave fishing nets. My Dad taught me to turn wood on a lathe and to grind valves and replace piston rings. My mum taught me to read everything and to write letters and my three special people have given me the creative freedom to use all my knowledge to be me.