Creative Journey - A Daily Dose of Creativity Week 26

I can't believe it's believe I've been doing this for over 26 weeks, it all started here. The year is halfway over, when did that happen. I have been doing at least one creative act everyday. There has been days when I haven't taken a picture of what I have done every day but I have been creative.









This week was pretty good at creating stuff.  I didn't get much done this weekend but this long weekend was busy, busy, busy for us. We took the kids to the ROM on Saturday, Sunday we went to the Beaches and a friend's house for a BBQ and today we had a friend over for a play date.  So not much done but a great weekend. And because of this I was late getting this post up.

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Monday

 progress on the cowl

Tuesday

Added colour to my sketch

worked on my SMASH journal

started working on thank you presents for Monkey's teacher

Wednesday

working on the cowl while waiting for the school bus

Thursday

The teacher's presents. I made monogram notebooks plus a Starbuck's gift card

And made some invites for a summer play date for Monkey's friends

Friday

Doing some crocheting for the last time while waiting for the school bus

Making progress on the cowl

Saturday

crocheting on the subway

and in the car while Tutu was sleeping and Rock and the girls did some shopping

Sunday

Crocheting in the park at the Beaches

Monday

the progress on the cowl

I hope everyone had a creative and productive week, and the upcoming week is as productive and creative.

Ania

Creative Journey - A Daily Dose of Creativity Week 14

So I am still down for the count, I have graduated from crutches to a cane but I still need assistance. My knee is still swollen and still can't be straightened out.  I am going to work early tomorrow so I can start physio so I'm posting this tonight.

That said when you can't walk you tend to have more time to work on projects, so that's what I did.

Monday

 I did a sketch, trying to figure out an inspirational piece

and I crocheted some more flowers for the girls' Easter dresses

Tuesday

Slowly adding more colour to my doodle

and more flowers crocheted

Wednesday

And more colour added to completion.

And a new doodle sketch started.

Thursday

Finished the doodle and added some pin backs to the flowers.

Started the baseball hat for my nephew.

all the flowers now have pin backs

Friday

It was a family affairs as we coloured Easter eggs.  Thankfully last year on clearance I picked up the spinner for dyeing eggs because it was the perfect mess free way for him to participate.

Worked on the hat in the car en route to visit family.

Made an inspirational mixed media piece (including my hear doodle) as a thank you present for someone.

Finished the hat (minus the embroidery) but released the hat will be too big for my 7 month old nephew (even though he's wearing 12-18 mos clothes) and will give this hat to Tutu but start making a new hat in hopes of finishing for the next day.

Saturday

The finished piece

The second hat being worked on

Sunday

Working on the second hat,I had to do some ripping up because it was still turning out too big.

Here are the girls in their Easter dresses. You can see all the flower pins I made to dress up their dresses.

And here are some pictures of the kids in their Easter best. 

I hope that everyone had a creative week and produced a lot of stuff. Hope the upcoming week is as creative.

 Ania

Holiday Party and a lot of craziness

We had a busy weekend and it's going to be a busy week so there isn't going to be too many posts from me this week. Over the weekend I: ran to Shoppers Drug Mart and printed out my pictures to use in my Christmas cards and scored 20X the points,  cleaned up the backyard with the kids (put all the summer toys away for the winter), finished making the chocolate picks for the cupcakes for Monkey's party next weekend, made chocolate mustaches for the party, prepared 2 backgrounds and sketches for 2 more wall hangings for 2 birthday girls next weekend, made some paper banners to decorate for Monkey's party and started decorating, went to our work's Holiday party for the kids at the Science Centre, finished up all the loots bags for the party, filled the pinata, took the girls to a birthday party and started working on our Christmas cards. It was a busy a productive weekend,


This week I am trying to do a little of the major cleaning each night and then on Friday night finish it all off. We're in party prep mode. In the morning we are having Monkey's classmates over for a pamper party,nails, face masks, make-up, making body glitter and a spa lunch and in the late afternoon we are having our friends and family over for another party.  This way I only need to clean the house once.


Saturday night we went to the Science Centre, we used to have a family membership and it looks like we might be getting another one in the new year because the kids had sooo much fun. They didn't want to leave.  We had the whole place to ourselves after hours, it was still full since it was all the offices in the GTA but it wasn't crowded.

This is what Muffin was doing waiting for Santa.

And Tutu waiting for Santa.

Monkey went one stage to help just before they started showing the Vandergraph Generator.   She was an electron orbiting the proton,

The girls on the Vandergraph Generator.

Checking out a tornado.

Tutu enjoying Kidspark

Maybe he`ll be a Doctor?

Love it when my kids play together.

 Dizzy baby

Tutu loved the construction area.

And the girls loved the shopping area.


Tonight I did a little more cleaning, I purged a big garbage bag full of toys from the basement toy room while cleaning.  I also worked some more on the birthday wall hangings, they aren't finished but are looking great. I'm so excited I just need to share.

Ania