We are on day 13 of AEDM and I really have not been meeting my goal. this weekend I did try a new recipe and I started learning how to make CP (cold process) soap and decided that my first attempt at soap making will be hot process (HP) soap making. I have a few goals for this week. I need to start an advent calendar and I need to start it soon. I plan on using this blog post as my inspiration, httt://www.acaseofthemundays.com/2010/12/felt-friday-felt-advent-calendars.html. I need to research HP soap making and supplies. I need to start the projects that I plan to make for the kids' Christmas gifts.
It is really difficult to make time for being creative when you have a 3 1/2 year old and 2 3/4 year old twins, but I think that it is really important for me to make time to be creative. I cant't wait for Tuesday morning. I will have about 2 1/2 hours all to myself. If I can get my act together, I will work on ,y daughter's Christmas gift which will be a felt "paper" dolls set. I am really excited to make this. It will be hand sewn so I can bring it any where. I am also planning on making some felt food as well as some wooden carved food for the kids. I am really excited to make the kids a lot of their gifts.
And now for a confession. I mentioned that I am going to start focusing on jewelry making as my creative medium, but I have decided that it is just not in me to limit the mediums or the type of craft that I use to be creative. I would love to be one of those people who can just excell at one thing, but I am the type of person who likes to try all kids of crafts and crafting mediums! I love learning new things and ways to use different materials. Maybe I really do have ADHD especially creative ADHD! I just need to plan better! I have all sorts of ideas in my head to get more organized and have more time, but right now they are just not coming to fruition! All in due time, I guess!
For now, I am just gng to try to focus on being creative and not worry about anything other than making time to enjoy being creative!
Amy
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Friday, November 6, 2009
The Joy Diet: Play
Jamie Ridler of http://tnc-thejoydiet.blogspot.com/ talks about play in Martha beck's book The Joy Diet.
I think this is a great topic to write about and I have really enjoyed reading other people posts on this chapter. I think as adults we don't play any where near enough. We are taught from too young of an age, especially lately that play in not good. We should be more focused. More focused on our career, getting good grades, keeping a clean house, being a good parent (having well behaved, smart focused kids), and many more things that take away our creativity and play. I have read fairly recently in our town's newspaper that they have taken away recess from elementary age ids so that they can have more classroom time. Isn't play just as important in learning as literal school work? I think so. Could this be why there is so much ADHD? We are expected to be so focused and we can't dream or have many different ideas and desires at once. I know from my own past that I stopped art classes after 67th grade because I should focus more on school work. I wish that I had kept up my creativity instead of waiting til I was in my 20's (thankfully it was only my 20's and not later) I am the mom of 3 beautiful kids and I hope that I can encourage them to play what ever that means for them. I hope that I can continue to play with them and on my own. I so want to look back on my life and be happy with the way I lived. Not to look back and think everything was perfect, but that I lived the best I could at the time, loved as much as I could, and enjoyed life to it's fullest.
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain
Amy
I think this is a great topic to write about and I have really enjoyed reading other people posts on this chapter. I think as adults we don't play any where near enough. We are taught from too young of an age, especially lately that play in not good. We should be more focused. More focused on our career, getting good grades, keeping a clean house, being a good parent (having well behaved, smart focused kids), and many more things that take away our creativity and play. I have read fairly recently in our town's newspaper that they have taken away recess from elementary age ids so that they can have more classroom time. Isn't play just as important in learning as literal school work? I think so. Could this be why there is so much ADHD? We are expected to be so focused and we can't dream or have many different ideas and desires at once. I know from my own past that I stopped art classes after 67th grade because I should focus more on school work. I wish that I had kept up my creativity instead of waiting til I was in my 20's (thankfully it was only my 20's and not later) I am the mom of 3 beautiful kids and I hope that I can encourage them to play what ever that means for them. I hope that I can continue to play with them and on my own. I so want to look back on my life and be happy with the way I lived. Not to look back and think everything was perfect, but that I lived the best I could at the time, loved as much as I could, and enjoyed life to it's fullest.
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain
Amy
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