Have I mentioned that I have been running 2 or 3 times a week since January? I have been running in the snow, in the driving rain, the drizzle and occasionally, in the sunshine. Last week I saw the first crocuses and did a little yipee inside. I am still captivated by the look of […] Read more...
How to nurture creativity in children
I love lists. It is a matter of much amusement to those who know me well. I love them a lot, too much maybe. I would be lost without them. I have enjoyed reading my fellow local aritst, Amelia’s lists on her blog recently (see here and here) and I feel its time to indulge […] Read more...
A giant flower tutorial to hurry spring along!
Over the Christmas period, a shelf in our house was given over to a nativity scene (you can see it here). Once Christmas was over, the empty shelf sat there for a few weeks, looking miserable. One day I thoughtlessly placed a couple of objects there (they were floating without a home – do you […] Read more...
The Vandalism of Beauty
I met with mosaic artist, Gary Drostle yesterday to talk about helping out on this amazing, 50 foot mosaic project he is doing for the University of Iowa and as we were chatting I mentioned one of his public mosaics – one that, in my mind, is iconic. I say this because whenever I am […] Read more...
Gratitude
I had a moment last week of deep, deep gratitude towards someone for their loving care, their choices that were liberating and conveyed such deep care, value and honour towards me. Boy, how lucky am I? That someone is sitting on the sofa here with me as I type! There are those things we take […] Read more...
Creative life, creative hands
This blog straddles two distinct but intertwined aspects of my life – being a creative parent, mother and home maker and being a “Creative” – someone who has chosen a career shift which for me is into the world of mosaic art. On the whole, my posts reflect where my energy is going in a […] Read more...
How quick was that?
It does not seem like a year since I was busy preparing for a certain little girl’s birthday celebrations, yet here we are again (for the fourth time!) most joyfully in the throes of birthday plotting – cake making, present wrapping, party planning and working out ways to fill our beautiful girl with glee over […] Read more...
Heavy Heart
As with most of the world my heart is heavy at the thought of the human devastation in Haiti. Since I heard on Tuesday I haven’t been able to watch the pictures on the news. I have listened to the radio news instead. I feel rather lily-livered about this but I know that within seconds […] Read more...
Meaningful life…and presents!
My beloved and I try out different ways of doing Christmas presents to each other and about 5 years ago we bought a years worth of experiences for each other to fit categories we’d chosen: “funny”, “creative”, “inspiring” etc… I wrote about it in one of my early blog posts here and thoroughly recommend it […] Read more...
‘Trusting the process’ & design choices in mosaic making
The weather is happening to us. It always does, I know, but when its this dramatic, you realise that the weather just happens to us. Any plans you may have had to work outdoors, travel here and there etc… are just stopped because we have been happened to. Apologies to you lovely folk in places […] Read more...