I need to change the name and angle of my project a little. Making something everyday is hard and is becoming a chore rather than an exciting challenge. The only difference I am proposing is that I will have 365 'Creative Days' and that way I can include creative tasks with less of a need to justify it.
Creativity is where my passion lies. This creativity may be worked out by making something but it may also be writing something or any number of creative directions. I am loosening the reigns a little but still journeying in the same direction.
Onwards.....
Sunday, 11 November 2012
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Project 27: The Girls are off to Kenya, November 8th
So I have been wondering what to do with all my makes. I saw on Facebook that a friend if mine who is a volunteer in a government hospital in Kenya needs soft toys to give to patients.
The girls have now been packaged up and are on their way with little notes.
The 2 little felties jumped into the envelope at the last minute so all 4 of them are off to sunnier climates.
Safe flight little ones!
Project 25: Gingerbread Biscuits, November 5th & 6th
2 days to make biscuits may seem over the top but I made them on one day and then decorated them with my neice the next day.
Project 23: Hemming, November 3rd.
Todays creative mission involved the sewing machine and those pesky hems again. Not really a picture worthy project but it was done. X
Project 22: Beef Wellington, November 2nd
Beef Wellington IS definitely a creative endeavour! All that mixing, pastry rolling & wrapping plus the added perk of it tasting good at the end. Dinner is served.
Friday, 2 November 2012
November 2nd - A review
I can tell you now - I'm flagging already. Making something every day is hard going and a year seems like a ridiculously long time. I have already been tempted to change the challenge into something along the lines of '365 Days of Purpose' and I would have the option of changing the challenge each month so for example I might write something each day of November and in December I might take 10 minutes every day to be still and silent. This would - I think - be a cop out and the slippery slope to giving up. One thing I have learnt about myself over the last few years is that I can give up too easily and I don't want to give up on this.
Interestingly I received an e-mail this week, just a group one but from Gretchen Rubin and her Happiness Project but there was a good link to an article called, 'Why I try to do some things every day without exception'. It talks about how it can be harder to sustain something for 3 or 4 days a week as you end up spending more time working out if today is the right day and whether you can have today off. It says that novelty and challenge bring happiness but that the pleasure of doing something everyday shouldn't be overlooked.
"The things you do every day take on a certain beauty, and provide a kind of invisible architecture to everyday life."
Andy Warhol wrote:
"Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it's exciting, and if you do it every day it's exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it's not good any more."
Gertrude Stein wrote:
"Anything one does every day is important and imposing and everywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful."
I want to keep going through my urge to give up and only make a decision to widen the challenge because it's what I want to do not because I want to back out of something I have started and can't finish. It's daunting though - a year seems like a very long time.
Good grief - it's 10.20pm and I need to make something today. It;s going to be a quick one I think!
Good night, it's off to make I go!
Leanne x
Interestingly I received an e-mail this week, just a group one but from Gretchen Rubin and her Happiness Project but there was a good link to an article called, 'Why I try to do some things every day without exception'. It talks about how it can be harder to sustain something for 3 or 4 days a week as you end up spending more time working out if today is the right day and whether you can have today off. It says that novelty and challenge bring happiness but that the pleasure of doing something everyday shouldn't be overlooked.
"The things you do every day take on a certain beauty, and provide a kind of invisible architecture to everyday life."
Andy Warhol wrote:
"Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it's exciting, and if you do it every day it's exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it's not good any more."
Gertrude Stein wrote:
"Anything one does every day is important and imposing and everywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful."
I want to keep going through my urge to give up and only make a decision to widen the challenge because it's what I want to do not because I want to back out of something I have started and can't finish. It's daunting though - a year seems like a very long time.
Good grief - it's 10.20pm and I need to make something today. It;s going to be a quick one I think!
Good night, it's off to make I go!
Leanne x
Project 21: Scones, November 1st.
Cooking pasta for dinner does not count as a creative activity but in my opinion baking does at his seems more of a flamboyant, imaginative extra than a necessary task of the day.
Today I wanted to find some sort of finger food I could give Cem so decided to make him something myself. After a scan through my baby recipe book I settled on baby scones.
Project 20: Lail's picture, October 31st.
Today's make is a wedding gift which is good because Mehmet is starting to get annoyed that we are trying to battle against clutter in the house and yet I keep making stuff and filling it up!
The gift is a joint effort with some other ladies at church. I pinched the idea from the Internet and a company that charges £65 for something I could make myself - so I did. I drew a tree trunk and some branches. People then wrote messages to the bride and groom on the branches and then added their fingerprint to become the leaves.
Annoyingly, I wrapped it up before taking a photo but hopefully will be able to get one if she opens it at the wedding.
Project 19: Trousers! October 30th
It could be argued whether this should count or not but I think it does! My husband needed the hem on his jeans turning up. It took some creative thinking to work out how to do this so that you can still see the seam at the bottom so I think creative thinking + the use of a sewing machine = a bona fide make!
Have added a photo of him for today's evidence!
Project 17 & 18: Greetings Cards, October 28th and 29th
For projects 17 and 18 I made 2 cards - one for my beautiful little neice's 3rd birthday and one for a friend's wedding on Saturday.
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