I'm sure I have commented on this before, but there are such riches to be found amongst those sharing bits of their lives by blogging. Recently I have been watching several things being created, bit by bit.
There is Judy's Manitoulin Circle Project, which always holds within each post a deep sense of art and craft in action and in community.
Gina with her great textile creations and current, sketchbook project - really inspiring, in an "if only I could manufacture enough time" way!
Susan's lovely Lavender post, dye and stitch in soft harmony,
Penny's Celtic Crow, along with the numerous book inspirations in her side bar,
Karen's lovely piece of peaceful circles
And always Jude's amazing and fascinating work, words and pictures. I keep promising myself some time spent following one of her on line courses, but don't feel myself skilful enough yet to take advantage!
All of these good souls take time, not only to create things that are lovely, but add that extra time to photograph, think about and share their processes with anyone who wants to watch and maybe join in. I am learning so much from them, not least that you can only create if you - well - create, which seems obvious but I tend to spend too much time reading and not enough doing. The beauty of blogging of this quality is that you get to see the doing and the thinking behind it, along with the time it takes to create. Real lessons from real life in how, really, to follow the dream.
What a lovely post. And thank you for the mention, and for stopping by with kind words. It's OK to watch and think and take your time. Thinking is a kind of creating too.
ReplyDeleteThank you, wise words. This virtual space is interesting, so full of opportunity
ReplyDeleteThank you for the mention... and for all the lovely links. A couple of new ones for me.
ReplyDeleteyou're welcome Gina - I keep looking at your sketchbook and thinking - I must have time somewhere!
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