be creative again

This is one of the few goals I’m going to implement a semi-direct plan for.

While I’m on vacation for the next couple of weeks I’d like to start sketching again. I always did weird abstract things.
I haven’t been able to smoke pot lately, which was a huge creative influence for me, and I’ve become much more pragmatic having to focus on school and all of the stress in my life…but I’m going to get it back!!

After I get home from vacation (or maybe while on it) I’m going to try writing poems again. I used to live to write poetry, now I don’t even think about it. I want that to change.

ive been in a designer/artist block for about 3 years, i have tried in so many ways to get the creativity that i once had out of me , but… nooo nothing, i start doing something and end u tearing it up… then stop doing anything for a while, i know this is bad, but i cant seem to get myself out of it.. i love reading books on art, design etc, but i think whhat has made me so blocked is too much information. confusion of styles, which way to go , questioning this instead of DOING anything !// if i go back to the days i was creative – i was clueless about artists, styles, theories, concepts, and i used to write theories of my own, poems, paint, draw, i couldnt get enough, now i really want that back and i think think think of things i should do , but when i finally have the time to do it, i find excuses – fooling myself, oh how i envy all those ppl who can let go and be …

i used to write all sorts of stuff, but not so much these days. i should do that more, stories, music and everything.

i’m teaching a summer camp, and i’ve got a clay project and a paper-making project planned. i forgot how fun it was to be crafty! i think i’m actually going to start my paint a bus goal. i also need to think of creative things to do while i’m traveling. hmm…

really creative. I came across my old photography class pictures and felt like they belonged to someone else. I can’t believe my own husband doesn’t know how creative I was. Not a single painting, drawing, or art inspired photograph has been attempted in almost 3 years now. This is so sad. I would love to make this a regular part of my life again.

The scrap booking has been coming along really well, although really slowly. Hey, I can’t help that I’m a perfectionist and it takes me hours to do one page. I just can’t wait to get caught up though…I still have to scrap book 8 vacations. Geez louise.

These past few months I have really been getting my groove back!

I made my brother and his wife a painting for Christmas, and they were really impressed with it! I started taking craft classes, so every week I have 2 hours in which I have to be creative! I started a blog about snippets of conversation, that I want to refer to for inspiration later on, and I have spent one lunch hour so far having coffee and writing!!

This is a good year for this goal!!

I think I’m getting my creativity back. I’ve been having “writers block” for a while now but lately I’ve had this overwhelming urge to create something, I just can’t come up with the ideas. There right there though, somethings definitely gonna pop into my head soon. Whether it’ll be something worthwhile or not, I don’t know.

I made a special birthday gift for a friend. She complained about how seldom we hang out together, and also how inactive she’s become. Sooo… I made a game called “Trekking Roulette” for her! :D I printed a bunch of cards with all kinds of ornaments (courtesy of MS Office clipart and the world wide web), and written destinations on them (some we’ve already been to, some yet unexplored). There’s a card with the rules, too, and they basically say something like “choose a destination, call your friend, who promises to get her lazy behind to the chosen destination together with you with a minimum of grumbling”. :)) Hope she likes it!

i’ve decided to try scrapbooking, but only because i feel the need to start a travel journal, because of how much traveling i’ve been doing lately. it should bring out some creativity in me, i’d hope.