Aug 10, 2021 | About Creativity
I attended the Zoom Symposium in Milwaukee, WI in 2016, I think it was. I wrote this essay in response. Craft and the Nature of Work Those of us in Craft-with-a Capital-C care about how it is made (or we used to, this is in flux somewhat). There was lots of...
Jun 21, 2021 | About Creativity
For this summer’s version of Camp Quarantine, we’re doing larger projects that take a bit longer. You may remember from last year’s blog posts that I would put the day’s craft, game, or activity in a trunk we have in the basement, and the young...
Dec 31, 2020 | About Creativity
I got a question on Instagram about how to decide what to do for your 100 Day Project; here’s what I said. It needs to be something you’re willing to do a lot, obviously, and also you want to think about… what counts? Is it a finished project each day for 100...
Nov 19, 2020 | About Creativity
So I had this thought, that people who have been in solitary, or have been POWs, had survival techniques to share. So I googled it, and found someone else had already had that idea and they wrote an article:...
Jul 7, 2020 | About Creativity
In a normal summer, we’d be outside and at the pool, not so much inside, sewing. But this isn’t a normal summer and we’re doing Camp Quarantine at our house. My 12 year old daughter made this 12 bandana circle skirt. We used the...
May 27, 2020 | About Creativity
A Solution to a Boring Summer of Shelter-in-Place A friend posted online to ask friends, “What are you going to do this summer, since none of us can do the normal fun things we do?” Pools are closed, travel is a bad idea/nearly impossible. We’re fine...
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Yay! Another exciting tiny thing!