Day 90:

"Make a pinata and destroy it!"

I have made many a pinata in the past for my children's birthdays.  I actually made one for my youngest daughter when she turned 6 last year.  Instead of making a pinata today I decided to use the drawing she did for me to make her pinata last year as my inspiration for today. She drew a chameleon as that was her theme for the party.  The drawing is about 8cm by 7cm.

 I had stumbled across a woman who turns children's drawings into stuffies on Pintrest and thought it was a fantastic idea.  So I pulled out some old shirts of my daughters, my knitting needles and some felt to created a squeezable friend.

She absolutely adores him.  She even managed to spill something on him before I could take the picture.  It was fun to make her drawing come to life.  I think there will be more of these in my future. 

Cheers

Day 89:

"Work only with bubble wrap or any other packing materials you have on hand."

I had some bubble wrap and some blue paint.  I painted the bubble wrap and then made a print on the paper.  I couldn't decide where to go from there.  The results make me sort of think of water or heavy rain.  I may use this as part of a future project.  For now it is just blue bubbles.

Cheers

Day 88:

"Make something using stuff from your work place or office.  If you don't work, use items that are usually found in an office."

I typed out the prompt today and started to get worked up about how it was worded. I was going to start off this blog with a whole rant about, not everyone works in an 'office', and work is work whether you are paid for it or not, but this is my creative space so I decided to dial it back.  I going on the assumption that Noah Scalin only meant the prompt to mean to use your office things or things found in an office and I shouldn't read too much into it.

I did my project today with things found in my home office.  A stapler.  I used the outline of our stapler to create my pen crocodile.  Just added a little here and there to the outline.

Day 85: (Revisit)

First things first.  I have not fallen off the face of the earth.  As mentioned earlier, my camera was going on vacation with one of my children.  It came back safe and sound but I have been inundated with sick kids for the last four weeks.  Plus I had a bad, BAD, reaction to antibiotics.  I was creating quite regularly through it all just not blogging.  Hopefully things will go smoothly for a while now.  As I have mentioned in earlier blogs this is really about me being creative often but I can't cope with more pressure and deadlines so my 365 projects will take more than a year, hopefully not more than two.

Day 85 took longer to complete than most my projects.  I had to do the work over a few days.  It is also my biggest projects to date.  I took a quote and painted it on a 46cm x 71cm canvas with acrylics.  I loved it so much that I hung it on the wall of my porch where the fall wreath and winter sled usually go.

For the record it does hang straight I just can't seem to take a straight picture.

Creativity without posts

Sorry there will be no posts for a couple of weeks.  I am still creating but my camera is off on an overseas adventure and will not return for another 10 days.  If I manage to locate the cable for my other camera I will start posting.  Please stand by.

Cheers