Creative Every Day

So excited to create alongside everyone else in 2011! You are each and all so inspiring to me!

Posted by: Julie Jordan Scott | Jan 1, 2011 at 1:19 am |

Hi everybody. I started my creative year strong by finishing the first page for the Strathmore Visual Journaling Workshop.
Read more about my goal for 2011 on my blog.

Happy and creative 2011 to everybody.

Posted by: Meinhild SELBACH | Jan 1, 2011 at 5:13 am |

Happy New Year!

May all good things come to you all!

To start this fresh new year. you may want a new desktop calendar.
You can download my wallpaper here

http://haveamerryday.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-new-year-2011-and-free-calendar.html

Posted by: pavinee | Jan 1, 2011 at 5:39 am |

Started my new year off right by doing art and I actually finished a piece! So excited to be doing the creative every day challenge this year! Happy new year everyone.

Posted by: Rachel (Ravenous Rae) | Jan 1, 2011 at 8:14 am |

happy new year, thanks for sharing and giving so much inspiration to all of us

Posted by: lilas | Jan 1, 2011 at 8:28 am |

Ah, the anticipation of a new and happy year!!!

Posted by: Maron | Jan 1, 2011 at 9:26 am |

although I what I’m working on isn’t in the Cosmos theme *yet*, I am so in love with that theme and look forward to playing in it!
I’m working on a collage about falling in love with my body… hoping to post a photo today
~*Happy, happy new year to everyone*~

Posted by: Liberty | Jan 1, 2011 at 11:11 am |

Happy New Year to you and yours!

Stay inspired!
Michelle

Posted by: Michelle | Jan 1, 2011 at 12:11 pm |

Thank you so much for inspiring us, here is the link where I am spreading the word
http://every-thing-goes.blogspot.com/2011/01/art-journaling-and-scrapbooking.html

Posted by: Clemencia | Jan 1, 2011 at 12:16 pm |

Happy New Year, fellow creatives!

I recently started a blog on WordPress and will be posting some of my work here. I’m also committed to completing some of my songs this year, so you may hear little tidbits of my singing on the site as well.

I’m looking forward to the new year and the new opportunities it will bring. I lost my corporate job in 2010, and I’m starting to see what a gift that was. I believe everything happens for a reason, and my job loss is a wake-up call.

It’s time to get going on the creative part of my life. No more excuses, no more letting fear drive the car. The time is ripe for a new beginning.

Here’s hoping we all get to live out our dream in 2011.

Posted by: Hudson | Jan 1, 2011 at 12:29 pm |

I’ve never done anything like this before, but it sounds like a great way to start 2011!

Posted by: Kirsten Ogden | Jan 1, 2011 at 3:26 pm |

Thank you, Leah, for helping me connect to so many creative bloggers. I’m excited about this new year. May it be a happy and healthy one for all!

Posted by: Gina | Jan 1, 2011 at 5:03 pm |

I’m very new here.

My main blog features my poetry and has been running for three years. I have a pretty good following of loyal friends, but am always keen to meet new bloggers.

I just started a new blog where I’m experimenting with my Christmas present of a Wacom Bamboo Pen graphics tablet. My doodles are pretty creative and I hope to share them with you here as well.

I’m happy to be signing up since I love to cook, bake, write, draw, photograph and venture into new territory when I can.

I look forward to exploring other creative folks’ sites.

Kat Mortensen

Posted by: Kat Mortensen | Jan 1, 2011 at 5:29 pm |

Happy New Year!

Posted by: Sandy/Creations by Coleman | Jan 1, 2011 at 6:37 pm |

I answered some questions reflecting on 2010. Copy and paste, take out my answers, and put in yours, if you’d like. It will be nice to see what any and all of you have written.

Posted by: Mlissabeth | Jan 1, 2011 at 8:45 pm |

I just joined in and left a comment on another post. Well I figure better to leave another! I am very new to blogs and posts but very excited to learn and create. Thanks so much.

Posted by: Amanda | Jan 1, 2011 at 9:02 pm |

no better way to start the new year than to get the creative mind working again – here’s to a productive 2011!

Posted by: Tanya | Jan 1, 2011 at 11:22 pm |

Happy New Year! The Cosmos is an interesting and very big theme to begin the new year.

Posted by: Lynda | Jan 1, 2011 at 11:45 pm |

Hello all & Happy New Year!

I’m so happy to be a part of this group and so grateful for the year-long encouragement. I’m also looking forward to learning how the muse inspires YOU.

This is the blog I created specifically for Creative Every Day:

http://www.mosaicmamacreations.blogspot.com

Cheers!
Tracey
Mosaic Mama Creations

Posted by: Mosaic Mama Creations | Jan 2, 2011 at 2:30 am |

Hi, Leah.

My creative piece this week? A new blog! http://inspired.gumnut.net It’s the blog I should have designed a year ago, but the whole having a baby thing interrupted everything

I did finish a mosaic piece as well, but the blog is my main effort.

As part of my new blog, I’m compiling a short list of challenges for my convenience and anyone else who would like to use it. Your two challenges were the first ones I wrote down, they are so wonderful I just thought I’d check with you to see if that was okay and if there were any changes you might like to be made to how I summarized them. Let me know and I will fix asap.

You can find the list here – http://inspired.gumnut.net/challenge-directory/

Also, if you know of any other challenges that I could add to the list, please let me know, I’d love to add them.

Oh, and I adore the theme for January Cosmos is such an inspiring word, I must do something for it

Thanks for all your hard work. I’m looking forward to another year of wonderful creativity.

Nutty
(deep in the depths of website development)

Posted by: Gumnut | Jan 2, 2011 at 8:55 am |

I’m so looking forward to joining in with this challenge.My 2011 goals are to Dream, live, inspire and be inspired…so here we go for 2011.

Posted by: Carol S | Jan 2, 2011 at 10:07 am |

Happy New Year to you all.

I’m looking forward to 2011. I’m excited and curious to see, feel, hear, touch, taste and enjoy what this year will bring us.

Ines

Posted by: ines | Jan 2, 2011 at 12:42 pm |

Looking forward to a year of progressing in my art and in my life. I have been focused on surviving and now it is time to thrive. So, fellow artist best wishes in 2011 and may we all through our community of shared love of creativity help each other thrive and continue to feed our JOY!

Posted by: Angela | Jan 2, 2011 at 2:42 pm |

I am excited to learn about this blog and challenge! I am also participating in the Sketchbook Challenge and hope between the two, I will be able to create something every day! I believe that to Embrace Your Bliss, it helps to follow the ABC’s: Awaken our spirits, Bring joy to other and Create beautiful things! Your create every day really supports my journey!

Thank you!
Susan, Blissfully!

Posted by: Embracing Your Bliss | Jan 2, 2011 at 3:02 pm |

I won’t be posting every day, nor will I be posting a weekly wrap-up… But what I will be posting is my writing, my (hopefully) creative memoir-ish blog posts, and the results of my craft/sewing projects. I hope it’s okay to continue to link myself every week, instead of linking a specific post… So anyone who’s curious can see what new treasures have fallen out of my brain.

I am excited to be part of this this year (I came late last year) and see what everyone has yet to make!

Posted by: Michelle | Jan 2, 2011 at 9:46 pm |

I love the Cosmic Cosmos Theme! I’m a wee bit limited as to what I can do but I will find a way to the next couple of weeks while healing from surgery. =]

Posted by: Lille Diane | Jan 2, 2011 at 11:59 pm |

Hi!! This fits right in with my resolution to focus on drawing something every day. So exciting!!

Posted by: ffyrebird | Jan 3, 2011 at 12:20 am |

A whole new blanc fresh year is waiting, let’s face it!
Happy new year!

Posted by: Nelleke | Jan 3, 2011 at 8:17 am |

I’m grateful for the words “low pressure” in CED. I started a new blog on 1/1, in part inspired by this challenge. I also re-activated my sleepy twitter account in order to find you lovely creative peeps more easily: @truffulatuft

Posted by: Jen MM | Jan 3, 2011 at 9:59 am |

Happy New Year! after I put up my link I realized I don’t really have anything for the dates listed, so…eeh, sorry.

Posted by: Melissa Liban | Jan 3, 2011 at 10:10 am |

Having just signed up, I’m looking forward to participating and am off to blog, then create

Posted by: LinDeZines | Jan 3, 2011 at 10:57 am |

Yikes – I’m late this week! Happy New Year my friends. A new beginning and a fresh start. I am so happy right at this moment! I just had a breakthrough idea for a new block of work I’m starting. Woohoo! Can’t wait to get started!

Posted by: Kathleen | Jan 3, 2011 at 11:33 am |

Glad to be participating again this year! I missed playing along last year! Off to see what everyone’s up to…

Posted by: Kelly Warren | Jan 3, 2011 at 11:49 am |

Hello!
I started a daily Art Apple back on October 1st, 2010 to help a great cause – awareness for an autoimmune rheumatic disease called Ankylosing Spondylitis. I’ve managed to post a new apple everyday – whew! So stop by if you get a chance – I really like the Cosmos inspiration for January – I’ll have to work some in with the theme! Creative Every Day can be done!!!! I wish you all inspiration and perseverance in your endeavors. Best, Jenna

Posted by: Jennifer Dye Visscher | Jan 3, 2011 at 11:52 am |

I have set my creative intentions for 2011. To be BOLD and paint lots. To this end I am changing my blogging schedule at Creative Potager to an Intention post on Mondays and a reporting out post on Fridays. I will continue to use Leah’s Creative Everyday structure as a way of being in community with you other creative beings. Thanks Leah for all that you do!

I may not partake in the Cosmos them as such to start with as I am painting a scene that from deep in the misty woods.

Posted by: Terrill Welch | Jan 3, 2011 at 12:21 pm |

I am very much looking forward to particpating in another year of this challenge.

Posted by: rennata | Jan 3, 2011 at 2:45 pm |

After commiting to three online challenges my internet decides to get flu or something. I’m on my friend’s computer now but not sure when I’ll have access to web next – therefore apologies for not visiting you all as much as I’d like!

Hope your New Year has started well & is already buzzing with creativity.

Kat

Posted by: Katina Wright | Jan 3, 2011 at 3:26 pm |

This is my second year of participating in the Creative Every Day Challenge. It has without a doubt supported the side of me that’s constantly experiencing life with all the senses and creating “magic” on a daily basis. I have a personal challenge of creating a journal page a day, but the CED intent and site pushes me to create even more every day. Thanks so much, Leah, and the others in this community who are on a similar journey.

Posted by: Virginia | Jan 3, 2011 at 5:53 pm |

I love this – though I’m a little late to the check-in, I have started a 365 photo project and was so excited, I couldn’t help but start in december!

Posted by: tara | Jan 3, 2011 at 7:44 pm |

This will be another exciting year for being creative!

Posted by: Denise Baldwin | Jan 3, 2011 at 9:54 pm |

Happy New Year everyone! I’m looking forward to getting back into my creative groove after a slow December.

Posted by: Dave | Jan 3, 2011 at 11:13 pm |

Getting back into the creative mode after being under the holiday seige. YAY!!!!! So excited fot the CED 2011. Terah

Posted by: CowgirlRed | Jan 4, 2011 at 10:31 am |

My word for 2011 “Freedom”. I set myself free. Terah

Posted by: CowgirlRed | Jan 4, 2011 at 10:32 am |

Hey there Leah! Thank you so much for providing this opportunity for inspiration and growth! I look forward to re- establishing my creative every day adventures!
Wishing you a bright new year!
slee

Posted by: sara lee | Jan 4, 2011 at 3:17 pm |

I have missed this space! I came to the end of the year and realized – happily! – that I have been creating every day! It is amazing how just planting the seed of an idea has brought it into reality. Thank you all for enriching my life and my world.

I look forward to visiting everyone for more inspiration!
xo Lis

Posted by: Lis | Jan 4, 2011 at 6:13 pm |

I just clued in that I was supposed to post a comment so other creative souls could check in on what I was doing, if interested. duh! slowly getting it.

I’m mainly writing poetry, though there will likely be reflective pieces on creativity, too.

my most recent poem is about cupcakes.

looking forward to meeting new people!

Ediebee

Posted by: Edie B. | Jan 4, 2011 at 8:33 pm |

This looks like an exciting challenge for the new year! I am looking to more creative this year & get back into my artistic pursuits. I can’t wait to start.

Posted by: katirra | Jan 4, 2011 at 10:27 pm |

Happy New Year Everyone!! I hope the holiday season was a great one for you I’m a little late out of the gates posting-January is busy busy for us at my day job oddly enough so I’m lagging behind in my creative time. No worries, I intend on getting on track this weekend. In the mean time I’ve done two video montages looking back at my 2010. I need to do 2 more for the full year but if you are interested, check it out:

Video 2

Video 1

Hope your year is a creative one full of new discoveries and lots of inspiration!

Jodi

Posted by: Jodi Ohl | Jan 5, 2011 at 11:26 pm |

Hiiii… I’m participating for the first time here.

I wish everyone here All the Best that the Year would bring in your Creative endeavors..!!!

Posted by: ET | Jan 6, 2011 at 12:44 am |

I found the Cosmos theme exactly what I needed this week. I’ve documented a particular story of (unsuccessful) star gazing in my visual journal. Shared through the CED group and my blog entry here –

http://creativeeveryday.com/creative-every-day-challenge

Posted by: Michelle | Jan 6, 2011 at 11:56 am |

Thinking of you, Leah, as I created “Baby Bump Bliss” :):)

http://created2bcreative.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-drawing-lab-work.html

Posted by: xinme | Jan 6, 2011 at 3:26 pm |

Happy Creating everyone! Looking forward to a year of fun and fabulousness.

Posted by: Sue | Jan 6, 2011 at 4:10 pm |

Hello all, and Happy New Year.

I have been creating art but am just getting around to posting.

I hope everyone is starting off the new year with wonderful energy and creativity.

Posted by: Virginia | Jan 7, 2011 at 3:05 pm |

I posted the result of the second lesson from Strathmore Visual Journaling Workshop 1.
My goal for this year is to be creative every day, but not necessarily posting every day.
So far so good.

Posted by: Meinhild SELBACH | Jan 8, 2011 at 12:27 pm |

Ooooooooo yay! I’ve got the new 2011 things posted on my sidebars AND January’s theme too! On the general 2011 sign up page, it asks one to join and then to comment,however, I could not locate a way to do so, though I can comment here! I will have to consider a bit how to use Cosmos within my own creative energy uses. I do not paint nor draw, and when I write it comes into my head finished and I must get to paper before it vanishes. I might choose a more writing, lecture, exploration-type expression about how I feel about Cosmos and how those ideas fit in with my daily practice. I do not know if that fits within the intent here. (so I will do it anyway!)

Posted by: Elisa | Jan 9, 2011 at 9:06 am |

I just had to join in the fun this year too. Though I didn’t participate every week or use the theme every month, I love being part of this community. Thanks for doing this every year, Leah! When I first joined in, it really helped me to get back into the swing of having creativity as a regular part of my life, and helped me to recognize the artist in me. I am so grateful for that!

Posted by: Arlene Holtz | Jan 9, 2011 at 9:26 am |

hehe I even had the flower…cosmos posted as a print that I have done for Purple Shoe Photography giggle snort

Here is my post that will just have to count for the first week, as a catch up…I called it, Faces of Cosmos. I added a category at the top left of my blog kept simply for Creative Every Day 2011 posts, with subcategories for each month. Simpler for those wishing to follow ‘members’ of the challenge, but not wishing to have to slog through everything else that I create at the same time! Happy Creating!

Posted by: Elisa | Jan 9, 2011 at 1:10 pm |

I love the theme ! Here is my first attempt… I’ll try to do better next

http://eveil-creatif.over-blog.com/article-creative-every-day-cosmos-1-64638242.html

Congrats to all !

Posted by: Sylvie M | Jan 9, 2011 at 4:06 pm |

First post for 2011 – goal is to post weekly! Here is my art called ‘Solace’.

Posted by: Sandy Van Nocker | Jan 9, 2011 at 9:43 pm |

I think I got it right this time. I signed up a couple days ago (or maybe I was just leaving an empty comment, I dunno), but I finally finished my post for last week:

http://mysticpenguin.dreamwidth.org/321364.html

Posted by: Emily | Jan 10, 2011 at 1:22 am |

How weird, I thought I’d added my name and written a comment but both have either disappeared or never existed! Anyway, I’m looking forward to being part of this.

Posted by: Tara Aquamarine | Jan 11, 2011 at 12:46 pm |

Happy New Year, everyone! I did actually do some creating last week, but am just now getting around to posting it.

I started out my creative year by making a moon calendar for my husband. It has 13 months instead of 12, marks the new, quarter, full, and 3/4 points, and marks birthdays and other important days on the date they would fall in the 13-month system. The month names are based on the Eastern Cherokee moon names which are part of his heritage.

I gave it to him for his birthday, and it was a huge success. He loved it, and is trying to figure out the best way to use it.

Posted by: CousinLinda | Jan 11, 2011 at 2:52 pm |

Leah-So glad to be here- again! I think I might have goofed and submitted my post on the sign up page twice. Anyhow- thank you for the Cosmos theme it has kind of crossed over with another project. I am looking forward to keeping this up during a busy semester! The phrase ‘Reach for the Stars” comes to mind.
peace,
slee

Posted by: sara lee | Jan 14, 2011 at 3:52 am |

Leah, Thank you for coordinating CED again this year. I painted my very first canvas, and it was dreamy and amazing and wonderful… http://daisyyellow.squarespace.com/vividlife/like-art-journaling-on-blue-jeans.html.

Posted by: Tammy | Jan 17, 2011 at 10:33 pm |