My Creative Space

Class starts a bit later today so here I am getting a chance to share My Creative Space(s) and the duality of most of our lives ...

When I am in class today, I will be studying this...and I'm glad to be in this JinShinJyutsu class and get a good refresher with yet another teacher. Each one presents the same material from his/her own perspective which adds another facet to the knowledge.



But... where I'd also like to be is doing both of these things. So many good choices! And I'm ever so glad Adobe finally got the MAC version of PE6. I am really enjoying learning this one.


Kirsty has the list of players over here. So go check it out - there are loads of players to inspire you.

My Creative Space

Just a bunch of the donkey work that helps to clear out the cobwebs. Applying gesso to a bunch of cardboard backs - cereal boxes and the like.

Painting little flower pots with what I swore (!!!) was blackboard paint! It must have morphed in the year or two it's been sitting around waiting for me to do this.

Finally, a bit of company wailing in the hallway. He almost never ventures into the studio unless he is beyond desperate starving. He does feel safe in sitting outside the door and doing a good strong Siamese wail. It usually gets my attention...

Click to see his tongue stuck out at me.

Once I got this done, I felt ready to finally tackle an ATC I'd been thinking about, and wanted to get out in the mail and going to my swap partner in Queensland Australia. Other Creative Spaces can be found over at kootoyoo's. Go on, have a look.

My Creative Space

Creative Spaces can be found over at Kirsty's so jump on in if you like on Thursdays! Memes are so much fun.

Most of my creating today was done in the kitchen but you'll have to come back on Saturday to see that one. Do come, because it's a good recipe if the cook says so herself. I finally finished the Christmas album from Ali Edwards' December Daily project with the December 31 page. Lots of fun, and I learned a lot from the process, but I'm glad it's done for this year. Ok for that year!!


So what does it look like now that there's not a lot Being Worked On. Well...

I finally organized my printouts of a great many of my digital elements in that black tabbed notebook. I do wish more of them were obvious by the file name, but I am also sorting them on the computer bit by bit and of course as I use them, I get to know my 'little children' or so it seems.

The computer desk has free space now too as I'm putting more bits away or in the trash. btw, that silver phone 'wants' to have the its #2 transferred to the Iphone so it can go to a battered women's shelter. It's another project To Do.

The crafty table has space to organize all my swapped ATCs into THEIR album tomorrow. If this sounds familiar, it is! That's because there's a trip in the days ahead. I'm getting the routine down I think!I hope.

My Creative Space

Creative Spaces can be found over at Kirsty's so jump on in if you like on Thursdays! Memes are so much fun.

I have been working like mad on trying to get most of my December Daily pages done before this weekend's retreat and I've made good progress on that front. I'm up through Dec 28th! and will work through with Jan 1st and then the Christmas cleanup page. But that's for next week. Phew! Next year, I will have learned enough to make a start before the holidays. Well, I will have learned enough but doing it is always another thing as well I know.

Here you see the pages of the elements/templates/papers I plan to use for some of my pages. I don't have all my digital elements printed out (there would be another ink cartridge or so gone!) but it does help me if I do have them (in a binder) to see what I might like to use. The long list on the right is the list of items that must/could be used for the ATC I was doing. You had to use your partner's choice but then could use others. In the end I enjoyed this one but procrastinated a bit too long, making it harder in my mind than it actually was.

These are the two, the one on the left was done but then I moved the quote a bit under the crow, which moves. (Cool, huh?) Gotta love those glue dots when you change your mind. I still had the 2nd one to cut out etc. They will be up on Flickr later this week, should you care.

And then I have postcards to swap and also some to send to my grandchicks. I have a new glue spray and is it every sticky! I'm afraid it's getting everywhere. I stick the glued postcards under the mat rather than try to smooth them down with my sprayed fingers. I need help here!

And that's been my creative week, other than downloading a boatload of free digital items. Tomorrow I'm off to a spiritual retreat, but lord is it gonna be cold out! High 23F, and low 9F. Lots of fleece and socks.

I just Joined

Kirsty over at kootoyoo has started the 2009 version of the popular On My Desk. We are now into My Creative Space since we all know that creation takes many forms and in many locations. (hmmm....that does have double meaning, doesn't it? I am reading The Red Tent now, so...)

I'm in for the meme. How 'bout you?? It's Blogging Without Obligation and it's fun.