Ideas are all around. I'm speaking of creative ideas, naturally. Ideas such as, "is this ball of wax that candle I had out last year?" aren't all that inspiring or worthy of conversation. (unless you're a philosopher) If you're a designer or otherwise creative being, then you thrive on ideas.
For a while I was fairly depressed and had no ideas. I had just been laid off, and my days consisted of searching for jobs to apply to. It was a bad time. Eventually I started networking and trying to participate in competitions and everything seemed just a little bit better. The difference was that I had "started dreaming again," in the words of my husband. Having creative ideas made a big difference in my mood.
In The Artist's Way, I was exposed to a lot of helpful ideas with respect to being creative and happiness and such. Taking myself out on an artist's date every once in a while started to sprout lots of little creative ideas. Now I find ideas in everything.
We had a big potluck housewarming party a month after moving into the new house. One friend brought trail mix and little cups to serve it in, and at the end of the party we had no trail mix and tons of little cups! Being a stickler for the three Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), I decided we should reuse the cups somehow. It was my first artist date when I decided to make a seed starting tray out of them. My husband had some cheap wood leftover from the crate his milling machine came in, so I poked drain holes in all the cups and then glued them neatly to the piece of plywood. This saved us a few bucks in seed starting trays and helped us start our first big garden the following spring!
Now I save peanut butter and jelly jars with the intention of someday making a sculpture or something out of them, but in the meantime they are used to mix paint colors for my spotty painting hobby.
Sometimes I think ideas come most freely when my mind is at ease. It seems all these ideas first happened in the kitchen. It is only fitting since it is the room of most creation (daily meals, cocktails). I'm not sure what it is about the kitchen that supports creative ideas. It's in the back of the house, so it feels protected. There are lots of horizontal surfaces to arrange things on. The window is big and bright. There are plenty of chairs to sit in and contemplate... Perhaps it has an auspicious location with respect to feng shui.
Today there is a lot of discussion about ideas and their origins, and I am looking forward to what other bloggers have to say about them. This rambling post is part of the Lets BlogOff, entitled "Where do you get your ideas?" So go take a peek at what everyone else has to say:
For a while I was fairly depressed and had no ideas. I had just been laid off, and my days consisted of searching for jobs to apply to. It was a bad time. Eventually I started networking and trying to participate in competitions and everything seemed just a little bit better. The difference was that I had "started dreaming again," in the words of my husband. Having creative ideas made a big difference in my mood.
In The Artist's Way, I was exposed to a lot of helpful ideas with respect to being creative and happiness and such. Taking myself out on an artist's date every once in a while started to sprout lots of little creative ideas. Now I find ideas in everything.
We had a big potluck housewarming party a month after moving into the new house. One friend brought trail mix and little cups to serve it in, and at the end of the party we had no trail mix and tons of little cups! Being a stickler for the three Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), I decided we should reuse the cups somehow. It was my first artist date when I decided to make a seed starting tray out of them. My husband had some cheap wood leftover from the crate his milling machine came in, so I poked drain holes in all the cups and then glued them neatly to the piece of plywood. This saved us a few bucks in seed starting trays and helped us start our first big garden the following spring!
Now I save peanut butter and jelly jars with the intention of someday making a sculpture or something out of them, but in the meantime they are used to mix paint colors for my spotty painting hobby.
Sometimes I think ideas come most freely when my mind is at ease. It seems all these ideas first happened in the kitchen. It is only fitting since it is the room of most creation (daily meals, cocktails). I'm not sure what it is about the kitchen that supports creative ideas. It's in the back of the house, so it feels protected. There are lots of horizontal surfaces to arrange things on. The window is big and bright. There are plenty of chairs to sit in and contemplate... Perhaps it has an auspicious location with respect to feng shui.
Today there is a lot of discussion about ideas and their origins, and I am looking forward to what other bloggers have to say about them. This rambling post is part of the Lets BlogOff, entitled "Where do you get your ideas?" So go take a peek at what everyone else has to say:
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