Day One
I used a prompt from the book 365 : A Daily Creativity Journal.
“Work with crayons. You can mold them, melt them, grate them, color with them, or……..?”.
“Work with crayons. You can mold them, melt them, grate them, color with them, or……..?”.
Crayons….. didn’t everyone’s first creative experience involve crayons? I know mine did. I still remember getting a big box of crayons ~ the one with a sharpener built in ~ as a kid. I thought that was the bomb diggity!
42 years old, and I’ll still pull out some crayons and color like a kid from time to time. Yep, I have a coloring book. I think that every ‘grown up’ should have one. And ultra stuffy, serious adults should have two….. maybe more…. and color outside of the lines
42 years old, and I’ll still pull out some crayons and color like a kid from time to time. Yep, I have a coloring book. I think that every ‘grown up’ should have one. And ultra stuffy, serious adults should have two….. maybe more…. and color outside of the lines
Day One – I made flamingo shaped crayons. Or, I attempted to make flamingo shaped crayons….. they broke when I tried to take them out of the mold.
Did I fail?
No. Attempting to make crayons with double vision is quite a feat, in itself (I have severe double vision from the surgery).
Am I disappointed?
Absolutely, positively not. I am amazed that I got as far as I did, and that I fulfilled my promise to my downstairs neighbor that I would not forget to turn off the oven. This is a huge accomplishment, considering the fact that I flooded her apartment when I was sick because I forgot to turn off the faucet in the bathroom. I can remember to turn off the stove. That is HUGE.
Lesson learned ~ don’t worry about the destination, just embrace the journey. That is where the lessons are…..
I think I’ll do some doodling with the pieces…… day one complete. Mission accomplished, as imperfect as the outcome may be. I jumped into my 365 project even though the idea of a blog terrified me (I am clueless about making blogs, I’m a very private person, and writing is by far not my strong point), I worked with crayons, and I didn’t burn down our building. Damn good day.
I was pretty tired today, so I kept it simple.....
Today I used another prompt from 365: A Daily Creative Journal
"Make something seem like it is passing through a wall or other solid material that it normally wouldn't or couldn't"
