Creativity is the one thing you never run out of .The more of it you use, The more of it you have.

 Well ,  we had a pretty productive day. Weirdly enough , it has been daunting trying to get back to making things again. I felt like I hadn't done it in so long that I forgot how. I had so many cool ideas for so many different things when I couldn't work on anything because we were working on the house and now that I finished my craft room and can make stuff whenever I want , It's like... OH EM GEE where did all that pent up creative juice go?  (maybe it's hiding somewhere between laundry , the yard , the house and dinner) Owell, I'm just trying to let loose and have fun.I did pick up this really neat book by an artist named Katherine Dunn on one of my recent trips to the bookstore ( I swear I could spend all my money on art books) It's very colorful and wonderfully inspirational. I love her art , It's very kind of primitive , free, fun and childlike which is really the kind of art I am most drawn to these days.
 http://www.katherinedunn.us/3/Gallery.asp?GalleryID=63565&AKey=L6DFL793
She mentioned having an idea box, One that when you have an idea for something and can't get to it right away, you write it down on a little piece of paper and stick it in the idea box for later so when you draw a blank you always have your idea box to go back to and you don't miss out on some of those awesome fly by thoughts that would maybe otherwise been lost, It's good idea the idea box :) I already do something similar with a small note pad but I like the box idea better because you can decorate it..
   Here's Mine , not pretty yet but oh it will be, and soon it will be full of ideas also

  
 I did decide yesterday to throw together a little rag doll just for fun sake and try to get some doll ideas flowin again.. I tried a new thing which was gesso on her face and a little paperclay to paint . She is kinda fugly, has no neck and is haphazardly put together but she is for me and I like her anyway so, neener.

I'll have to experiment with the clay over cloth thing a little more later, and I was right ,this inspired a whole other idea during the process, that and a little good music. Love it when that happens ,so I have been working on my new idea all day. Now for the part I hate the most , waiting for stuff to dry. We also made some paper bag puppets . Didn't I say it was a productive day?  Well , we have fun anyway.

              Kashi is quite proud of his elephant , her name is Ellie, who'da thought.