Creative Play Date Week – Day 3
Today’s Creative Play was quick, so quick that I decided to do some doodling after I finished my project for the day and doodled a design that would look nice on a quilt. For my project today, I pulled out the deck of Creative Strength Training Prompt Cards I just …
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Creative Play Date Week – Day 1
Day 1 of Creative Play Date Week was an exercise in finding the time and a good reminder of the benefits of just 15 minutes of play. Monday was busy, really busy. We got our kid off to her first day of camp and then I commuted into Boston for …
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Creative Play Date Week
I’ve talked a lot about 15 minutes of play time each day. I even wrote about it in my last newsletter, which was when I realized that I am not practicing what I preach. I’ve been spending a few hours working in my studio each day, but playing? Nope, I’ve …
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Creative Play Newsletter (Vol.1, Issue 12) – Create Your Creative Space
I’ve seen the recommendation in a couple of sources to spend at least 15 minutes a day in your creative work. It’s a great idea. Fifteen minutes a day is enough to keep your creative pump primed and enough to feed your soul on a daily basis. But, even 15 …
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Creative Play Date – Matisse in the Studio
I rescheduled my Creative Play Date to last Friday and had a wonderful day. I met a friend at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to tour the Matisse in the Studio exhibit. We also stumbled upon an exhibit of politically-motivated art, which was particularly appropriate since she is …
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Creative Play Date Rescheduled
The Creative Play Date last week didn’t happen for me for a variety of reasons, but I rescheduled and am off to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston today for the Matisse in the Studio exhibit.
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Creative Play Newsletter (Vol.1, Issue 11)- Do Something Different
In March’s newsletter, I wrote about the importance of play time to stimulate your creative juices and how I have found the times when I have allowed time for play to be some of my most creative. But what if that still doesn’t work? There certainly are days when even …
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Creative Play Newsletter, (Vol. 1:Issue 10) – The Gift
I had an essay already written and all typed up for this month’s newsletter when I began reading The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde. (Thank you, Carol, for the introduction to this book.) Reading it has been so transformative that I felt like …
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Creative Play Date Day!
It’s Creative Play Date Day! How will you spend your play time? We’re expecting snow so I think there’s a good chance I’ll be playing with Popsicle sticks with my kiddo on a snow day, but I’ll keep you posted. Enjoy!
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Creative Play Newsletter (Vol.1: Issue 9) – Play Time
What is Creative Play and why do I keep talking about it? Well, I keep talking about it because after many, many years of fighting it, I have finally realized how very important it is. I stopped playing at about oh, two years of age. That’s probably a bit of …
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