Busy day raking leaves
I spent all morning raking leaves, and it hardly looks like I made a dent. Ugh. The rest of the day I spent crafting. I finished up the Christmas Ornaments I posted about the other day, worked on a project I call ‘advent ornaments’, and made a few of these memo pad holders. I hope to have photos of these in a few days.
Read MoreBusy crafting…no time for photo!
Tonight I was busy making ornaments inspired by this this pin and didn’t have a time to take a photo. I’ll get one up tomorrow!
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I’m not going to have time to post anything crafty today. My whole day is booked. This morning I did some crafting at my local coffee shop with some of my neighbors who are doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). We meet every Saturday morning to work on our projects together – and by together I mean in silence with a timer so we don’t talk. It is more for the company than for being productive. I’m heading up to Philly this afternoon to have lunch and a movie with and old friend, and then tonight I’m going to see Amos Lee and Brett Dennen in concert with...
Read MoreWhat is creativity?
All my professional life, my coworkers have described me as creative. I always demurred because I have the drawing skills of a kindergartener, and I’m a math major for goodness sake! But when I discovered papercrafting I discovered that while I can’t draw or paint anything from scratch, I’m pretty good at taking existing things and making something special. It was then that I realized that the act of creating is something that I’m VERY good at and I was, in fact, doing it all the time at work. Give me a form, flyer, or process that needs to be (re)invented and...
Read MoreGuess who is a workaholic?
Me! 7pm and here I am, still at work. Lots of distractions today so I’m still trying to get that new background just right. So it is pretty unlikely I’ll have a crafty project for you today. NaBloPoMo goes out with a whimper I guess. Who knows…maybe I’ll get inspired tonight. The UNC-Illinois game is on later (go Tar Heels!) and I’ll have to watch it upstairs so that Tivo can do its thing downstairs. It is pretty impossible for me to sit at my desk and NOT craft!
Read MoreA day full of creating…
…but at work not at home, so no project tonight. Instead, how about I tell you about work? I work for a company in the solar industry as Marketing Director. We are a startup, so we try to keep operations lean, which means I have to wear a lot of hats. Strategist, cranky process person, graphic designer, IT desk, office manager, executive assistant, to name a few. Most of today I was graphic designer Katy…redesigning a product label and designing a new background for our trade show display. I’m hoping to get a quick turnaround on the new background for a show next week that...
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