The Magic Bean

Whipping Up a Guest Blog Post About Creativity

Today I am guest blogging at Whip Up.  Kathreen, who writes the blog Whip Up, has asked creative types, including me, to write about their creative process for her special guest blogger series.

I've been really enjoying reading about other people's creative journeys as part of this series.  I hope you'll enjoy reading about mine.  Click the link to read about My 4 Essential Creative Truths.

I'd really be interested to know - do any of my creative truths ring true with you?  What are your creative truths?  I hope I'm not the only one who gets creative while wearing one shoe or in the shower.  Having said that,  I just found this quotation which suggests that I'm not alone in how my creative epiphanies dawn:

“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.” — Nolan Bushnell

Want to read more about my creative process?  Here are some of my thoughts on Finding Inspiration and The Evolution of a Doll Design Idea.

Here's hoping you come out of the shower with an idea and then do something with it!

 

What's Black and White and Read All Over?

The Ingersoll Times Newspaper of course! 

 
Read all about it!  The Ingersoll Times, my hometown newspaper did a feature on me which is appearing in this week's paper.  You can read the full article by the Ingersoll Times' John Tapley by clicking the link.

If you missed out on the cloth doll making classes that I taught in Ontario, Canada this time round, fear not - I am teaching at the Creativ Festival in Toronto, Ontario October 21-23, 2011.  Just so you know, for some reason they spell Creative without the "e".  Perhaps "sans e" is regarded as more creative? Or should that be creativ?

 
I'll be teaching Dive Into a Book, a flat fairy bookmark with three dimensional toes.

 
And The Green Man, a brooch that will teach you the fundamentals of drawing and sculpting a male face.

The exact dates and times that these two course will be taught have not yet been set.  But if you subscribe to my blog by clicking the link, you'll be sure not to miss it when the dates are set.