Entdeckungsreise ins Selbst
Today I had a clear idea of what I could create, which wouldn’t take me too long a time. I took a blank stretcher frame with a white acrylic base, and added many different stripes of tape. Following I prepared 5 different kind of paints, diluted in water, so I could splash them onto the frame…
My son was asking me how animation movies are made. So I took a small memo pad and began drawing a little stick-man on it. Every little note had a different moving stick-man, so that when we let the papers roll a tiny animation movie evolved. (press on the picture below to see The Stick-Man…
Mission accomplished! Happily, my son was interested in painting with acrylic and poster paint, so i got a chance to complete my paintings I had started some days ago. I so yearned for making these paintings really special. After all, they are gifts for five different people! Initially, i planned to paint them in a way that they…
Today I aimed to finish the last 5 boxes for my son’s shelf. Two and a half hours later I could cross this task off my list. I wouldn’t have anticipated that I would spend a total of 4 hours to cover these boxes with the gift wrapping paper, yet that is what this creative…
My challenge really seems to become a challenge. Today I began working on it around 9.30 p.m. My son is ill for a week already, and today just didn’t let me go anywhere. He needed me constantly, so when to venture upon my creative endeavors? Let’s make it simple. We use a lot of cartoon boxes…
Pretty late in the evening at 7 p.m. I began setting up my space for painting – a place I will be able to leave everything untouched, so I can continue where I stopped previously ANYTIME! Today I began doing what I promised to have had done until the end of last year 2015. I…
I am participating in the online course “A Creative Adventure of Self-Discovery” to enhance creativity since end of April 2013, simply in order to get back to my creative life, to learn focusing also on me now and then, to make time for self-care and self-growth. The exercises I need to be doing range from writing, reflecting, to creative tasks such as painting, doodling, collage making etc. Here goes the first one.
It’s 5 a.m., Good Friday, and as usual I need a tiny moment to get fully awake while my baby son is already fit for the day. My first look into the new day goes out of the window. I am blown away by the view. The universe provided a big miracle, turning the still cold but upcoming spring into a snowy Easter Wonderland! Thick layers of white cover the streets, roofs, cars, sidewalks, and trees appear like having a huge sugar coating put on. Sleepiness is forgotten, and together with my son we marvel at the big white cover over all the life out there this morning. I begin taking in snow from the roof, playing with my son on the bare ground. Suddenly, creativity hits me.
There are these days when inspiration takes over and things left behind are taken up in an instant. Today is such day. The sun is shining, my son sleeping on my back in the carrier, and I feel amazingly inspired to use this little time I’ve got to share with you my newest recipe for gluten-free cookies.
I have done gluten-free cookies before, and generally use following recipe:
250g gluten-free flour
125g margarine
60g sweetener
pinch of salt
1 egg
Spain, July-September, 2003. This summer is a special one. I uptake hitch-hiking as a means to travel and, far better, a handsome Lithuanian man finds his way right into my heart. After a magnificent holiday together, we part with the promise to see each other three months later, at Christmas, in Lithuania. Spain, October, 2003….