My title today says it all - not just for the things I created today but for the whole month. When I started out on February 1, I could not have told you I would end up becoming nearly obsessed with books and paper and objects and silhouettes, etc. I had a few projects in mind and some quick hits for busy work days (really none of which I actually did).
Today, I secured the domain name www.creative-act.com for my impending blog. I know I am ripping off the class name that inspired Thing-a-Day but all the initial domain names I thought of were taken. I hope Frank Ze considers this a tribute to him and what he started (I would have been all over that class had I still be in grad school - I was 2 years too early to take it). I plan on beginning to set it up this weekend.
Mid-day, I created some more sunprints - from the leaves on the same tree as the flowers and pods from last week. I am not nearly as tickled with the images - not enough transparency to the leaves to make the sunprints really fascinating but they’ll do as a series of 3. Question is now whether to arrange them in the sequence they appear on the tree - leaves, pods, flowers or to put the flowers in the middle flanked by the leaves and pods.
(Oh, and I ran to Paper Source early afternoon which has to be considered a creative in and of itself.)
The evening was spent working on my Inspiration Book - it did not go as well as I had planned but I am thrilled with the direction it is going. I cut the sayings more to fit into the envelopes and make them uniform (everything must be interchangable, after all.) I also printed some sayings on a turquoise piece of card stock. My first mistake was applying the first stamp. I must have not applied the pressure well because the middle was blank. *Crap* But I mocked it up anyway with tape (I decided not to commit to anything further just yet) to give an idea of what I am planning.
Here, you see the mess up and the first 2 pages - the directive to create and a short list of projects I want to endeavor. I think I will either use red paper or plain white with red lettering, however. The turquoise against the turquoise photo corners doesn’t stand out well (no red photo corners which were my first choice).
The 2nd set of pages are the envelope to store extra sayings and the directive to imagine. I especially like this page - not just because the stamp is perfect but the contrast of the red and turquoise photo corners.
That said, when I made the mistake, my first thought was to begin again or paste a page over the messed up page. But I am now considering it keeping it as it to remind myself that part of experimentation is failure. Thoughts, anyone?
So that’s it for me, at least here. I am committed to continuing to create regularly and post my experiments, successes and failures on my blog. It has been a pleasure and an honor to be amongst such a talented and committed community for the last month. If anyone wants to link up blog-wise as sort of a alumni community, please drop me a line.
Take care, creative ones. I’ll see you in 2009.
here is a little image that i added my own saying too! On a closing note please keep in touch my flikr address where you will find more creative items is:
