Reunited!

I've had a busy couple of days. When my girls and I moved into our little house a couple of years ago, a lot of my creative 'stuff' had to go into my mum's attic. I wasn't sure how big my attic was - and there was no loft ladder so I knew that it would be best to have them out of the way whilst we got organised.  However, in the spirit of kickstarting my creativity (see last post), I decided that I would get all my stuff back and have a good sort out.  I had to wait until my son was able to help me as boy were some of those boxes heavy!!  

 

 

Anyway, this was the week we got all my lovely treasures back. It's been a long time and I have missed them! And isn't it funny that the things that inspired you once, continue to have that hold over you? Every time I see these things my heart skips a beat. (Sad, isn't it?!)

 

So now I am clean out of excuses as to why I can't create new work!  Watch this space - or follow me on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/corinne.phillips.18#!/pages/Corinne-Phillips-Fairytale-Maker/189705697727603

 

 



Kickstarting my creativity

My "warm up" piece!

I don't know about you but I find creativity is an unusual beast. It is like a nagging thought in the back of your brain like you forgot to do something. But when you feed it, it rewards you with the most pleasant feelings of self-worth. 

I have struggled over the last two to three years, since my divorce, to get into gear creatively. My head has always been somewhere else and I have found it so difficult to allow myself to do anything - although I miss it terribly. When I actually come to sit down and sew or write, I immediately hear a battle in my head debating what the point of all this is.



Details of warm up

To this end, on a complete whim, I enrolled on a workshop with Jennifer Collier at Unit Twelve last Saturday. It was called Printed Canvases. As fate would have it as soon as I had paid my money warnings were issued that the Powick Bridge was due to be flooded on Friday - this was my only way to get to the motorway and I was worried that my spur of the moment idea would backfire. Luckily the water did not rise enough to flood the road and I was able to make it.



Thoughts turn to the final piece!

Even just assembling together my personal bits and pieces to take to the course was a boost.  It was great to look into boxes and little drawers that I hadn't opened in such a long time and see my lovely flea market finds again.

When I arrived at Jennifer's studio a warm welcome awaited. We were a small group of about 7 but it was lovely to be with like-minded people once again. Even then, half way through the morning my inner critic was whispering "What are you doing? This is such a waste of time?" but the fact that I had to stay there the whole day - and the expectations that I would create something that day was a great silencer to the voice in my head.

The finished article!

So now I hope to continue in that vein. I know that I am a creative being and that I feel so much better when I have a creative outlet. So I am praying that this is the start of feeding my creative soul on a much more regular basis.

I'm back!!

 

Is anyone still out there?  I am returning to the blogosphere after a couple of years which have turned my world upside down. However, I am now itching to get back to being creative and to rejoining all you lovely people out there - if you are still out there!?

 

So, let me introduce you to Joey - our new addition. He is 5 months old and full of fun. We got him in the middle of December - It was Ruby's idea - and although I put up all sorts of reasons why we shouldn't get one it didn't actually take much to twist my arm!  So he arrived mid December and within days was the boss of both dogs! Archie, our other cat is holding his own for the time being!!

Although Joey doesn't take No for an answer.

 

After much deliberating, I have decided to get back into my sewing slowly - so I am starting a log cabin quilt for my bed. I am hoping that by engaging my creative brain it will fire into action with enthusiasm and lots of new ideas - well that's the theory anyway!