spurts of creative

making things makes me happy. i've always been that way. my friends and i would make pretend magazines and fashion for our dolls when i was young. crafty play-dates were the ones i sought out. and if you grew up watching 'playschool' - you won't be surprised to know my mum set up a 'useful box' just for me to make things out of toilet paper rolls and cereal boxes and popcorn kernels!

i still love to make things and *need* to make things...i'm just not so great at documenting and sharing these days. also, blogging about the toadstool napkins i sewed over the weekend may not make for the most exciting read.

but with these three crazy little people of mine, there are many spurts of artistic expression throughout our days...as evidenced by the permanent mounds of fabric, paper snippings and other explosions of supplies strewn all over the house (see above picture for accurate state of floor at all times).(portrait of me, by yindi)while we all express ourselves differently (some with needle and thread, some with black permanent pen) i'm grateful to have a house full of amazing little artists and not a ledge or wall in the house without some form of colourful creation stuck to it. the mess is worth it - we are happy when we are making things :)

Comments

[Lindsay]

a beautiful mess! way to embrace it, i need to do that even more. seems like with each additional child, the controller in me (who wants it to be tidy SOMEtimes) grew and grew, probably b/c the mess is growing, too. but you're right it IS worth it. and way to embrace even the doll's new tat (that one made me hurt a little). the boys love fabric, too. i need to remember to get it out more! xoxoxox to you!

[Virginia]

Gorgeous family creativity nothing finer!

[Georgia]

I still remember when you told me that you also (like me) wanted to be a play school person when you grew up. I adored Play School all through my own childhood, my adolescence (!) and my own Children's younger years and only stopped watching it when we moved overseas. What I loved about it was the creativity...music, art, drama, literature! And I'm just like you....I go a little stir crazy if I'm not making SOMETHING, ANYTHING....even just planning lessons which is about all I can manage these days. Good to see you are raising your kids right! (says the art teacher). And I still ADORE that photo of Yindi.

[Erika]

Where did that little girl called Yindi go? She's getting so big!!!

[Kris]

We are happiest when we are making too. We recently moved and our new house is tiny. There is no special making room here, so the living room is strewn, but we are happy!