Creative Every Day 2008 has begun!

January 2nd, 2008

Aurora asked about how to communicate with other members of the group when you've posted about your daily creativity on your blog. Good question! You can post a comment here on the blog if you want, although it's not required. I hope that participants will check in on each other here and there (check out the list of participants in the sidebar.) Also, I've just set up a flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/creativeeveryday2008/, so feel free to use that to post images of any of your daily creations there (you can provide links back to your blog posts in your image description.)

I don't plan to post my creative activities every single day, but I will be keeping track of all of them and posting about all of them. There may be times I'm posting every day and other times I may post a few times in a week. Whatever your creative action is, record it in a way that feels right for you, keep your eyes open for creative opportunities, and have fun with it! If you aren't posting about what you're doing every day, then you may want to keep track in a journal or on your calendar. It'll be fun to look back over what you're doing and I think others will enjoy seeing the creative ways you take on this challenge too!

Last night, I sat down to work on my something creative and I thought I wanted to do a collage with images and words representing my goals. I looked through several magazines and wasn't finding the imagery I wanted. After 20 minutes, I'd only ripped out the word "magical" and a picture of a hand holding money. So, I took a different approach.

Here you can see my art journal opened up. I just started painting on it and the symbols came bit by bit. I wasn't really sure what it all meant until after I finished it. I painted the houses gold with red over it which represents good fortune, abundance, and wealth. And the houses themselves represent home, family and community. In the sky, the swirls represent creativity and action. And at the top of the page, I've written "creative everyday" to represent my intention for the year and the projects I have going on. It was kind of a shiny piece (and hard to capture with my camera) with the gold paint and mica flakes, but I think you get the idea and you get a little peek at the top two shelves of my bookcase!

O.k., back to work for me. I hope your day is a delicious one!

Posted by Leah on January 2nd, 2008 in art, creative every day 08, creativity, inspiration | Permalink | 19 Comments |

19 Responses

I’d love to join in! I hope I’m commenting at the correct place.

Posted by: Brie | Jan 2, 2008 at 4:29 pm |

Happy New Year Leah, and Happy Creating! I’m still considering joining in… afraid of too much overload!

Good Luck with everything in 2008 – may all your dreams for 2008 come true.

Posted by: Elizabeth | Jan 2, 2008 at 4:56 pm |

thanks –this post answered my question. I probably won’t post each day’s creative work, but plan to try to be creative in some way everyday! even just some knitting or doodling every day is good for me…;-)

Posted by: aurora fox | Jan 2, 2008 at 6:23 pm |

LOVE your entry…..really beautiful!!!
I joined the flickr group…I look forward to this year of creative fun!!!
Peace–Ellie

Posted by: ELLIE | Jan 2, 2008 at 7:44 pm |

Your journal pages remind me of Starry Night! I guess it’s the color and the swirls in the sky. I will pop over and join the flickr group….I love this whole concept of being more aware of our creativeness in all ways.

Posted by: Janet | Jan 2, 2008 at 8:09 pm |

I love the serendipitous nature of the Universe! My only vow for 2008 is to commit to living, which in my creative life means stop thinking about being creative and actually DO creative things. Thanks for thinking up Creative Every Day. Count me in:-)

Posted by: Susan | Jan 2, 2008 at 9:34 pm |

i would also love to join this…
i hope i am not too late!
i have been looking for something for inspiration
and this may just be the ticket

and i love the art journal pages!

Posted by: gkgirl | Jan 2, 2008 at 9:56 pm |

i would also love to join this…
i hope i am not too late!
i have been looking for something for inspiration
and this may just be the ticket

and i love the art journal pages!

Posted by: gkgirl | Jan 2, 2008 at 9:56 pm |

Is this the right place to say I’d like join? Your blog is very inspiring.

Posted by: Joanne | Jan 3, 2008 at 12:07 am |

I’d love to join this project too!

Posted by: maria | Jan 3, 2008 at 4:38 am |

I’m not sure how this is going to manifest itself, but I willing to give it a go…count me in!

Posted by: Karen | Jan 3, 2008 at 9:25 am |

A glorious happy new year to you Leah!
I just found out about your wonderful endeavor from the beautiful Marilyn over in the land of moo.
please count me in! somedays it will be photography, some days ‘art’, and somedays just the creative coming and goings of life with a four year old!
I’m so excited to see what the year brings… and I LOVE your art journal:)

Posted by: joan | Jan 3, 2008 at 10:55 am |

Happy New year Leah!

I love the colors of your art journal. So deep!
Sean bought me this book from Ethan and Maggie for Christmas called Living Artfully. I just started reading it last night and it is so inline with what you are doing here…creating everyday.

I feel the universe guiding me today to be creative in all I do.
Thanks for being so inspiring!

XO,
Melba

Posted by: Melba | Jan 3, 2008 at 11:06 am |

Have a Very Blessed Happy Creative New Year, Leah!!!
Thanks for starting this. I haven’t decided if I will
post once a month or once a week yet. I did post two
photos of cookies I made the second day and I loom
knitted in the evening. No photos of that though.
I haven’t posted what I did on the first day. I just
put it inside on comments what I did. I do have on my
blog some of the things I’ve done in the past. Self-Portraits,
unfinished, stencil, Pony, Doll, Collages, Photo Shadow Card,
ornaments I made on my blog. The email you sent is not letting
me open it up. I’ll ask dd about it. I don’t have a lot of knowledge
about computers.
Have a Very Blessed Creative Happy Year!!!

Posted by: Flassie | Jan 3, 2008 at 2:28 pm |

Love your journal page and the art on your bookself!!!

Thanks again!!!

Posted by: Flassie | Jan 3, 2008 at 2:33 pm |

I came to fix the url but I see that one of them works.
Thanks for letting me know I left out the s in flassiesfila.

Posted by: Flassie | Jan 3, 2008 at 3:11 pm |

Sounds like a great idea and I’d like to join in also.

Posted by: teric | Jan 4, 2008 at 12:40 pm |

Hi Leah,

I would like to join in again too … I did November with you.

I will check out the Flickr group too …

This is so inspiring!