Thank you present

I made this to say thank you to my classroom assistant for the last two terms. The ribbons you can see inside are attached to little tags with each child's thank you statement printed on one side and their handwritten signatures and decorating on the other side. It was a class record as every single child followed instructions and signed the smooth side! Admittedly, one of them did ask if they had to write their own name or if they could write any name they wanted...Sophies_jar

Credit must go to Andrea at It's a Creative World for the idea, here.

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Sunday Scribblings #67 - Slippery

Let me start by saying read this one. It is so true and so beautifully written. I'll get back to mine a little later on...

Now I've got it.

The muse is slippery. Ideas float and flutter through my mind, sometimes as concepts, sometimes as completed pieces. I see a sky, a stone, a tree and I get a flash of inspiration. I flip through a magazine or book or walk around a gallery and I think "oooh, I could do something like that, only I would try it this way."

but

then

I sit down to create something. I would happily create anything really. But nothing speaks to me. My ideas feel pedestrian. My materials seem 'not very me'. Anything I manage seems dull and derivative. My hands refuse to speak for my mind. Frustration reigns and life gets harder without a chance for expression.

except

when

The crayons fly over the paper, knowing when to stop and shade and smudge. The lines flow out from my pen like ribbons of steam. Colours push themselves forward to speak their part and words scatter across the page. Time ceases its existence and art creates itself. The muse is slippery.

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