Archive for the 'creativity' Category
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Of Animals, Gardens and Art
Besides her family, Cuyahoga Valley artist Pat Raeder’s main interests are animals and gardening. She considers herself lucky because she gets to play with dirt all year long. Each has its season: from the middle of August through Thanksgiving, and into the new year, Pat works with clay. In April, she begins the design […]
Published by fromskilledhands on July 8th, 2008 tagged creativity, Clay, Art, Craft, Cuyahoga Valley, Gardens, Animals, Artists | 3 Comments »
My Town Monday: The Animals That Didn’t Get Away
In a previous My Town Monday post, I wrote about the story of the Peninsula Python, where a runaway python, or the story thereof, terrorized the Village of Peninsula in the summer of 1944. Folks have long speculated what happened to the python, although no one really knows for sure.
On […]
Published by fromskilledhands on July 6th, 2008 tagged creativity, Art, Giveaway, Peninsula, Cuyahoga Valley, My Town Monday, Community, Peninsula Python, pottery, Python Festival | 11 Comments »
My Town Monday: How Art Gives People Community
What do 2000 artists, dancers, stilt walkers and other paraders have in common with 60,000 spectators? Community, when they are part of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Parade the Circle. Saturday, for the 7th year, #2 daughter and I joined in the spectacular celebration of the arts that just completed its 19th year. […]
Published by fromskilledhands on June 16th, 2008 tagged creativity, Art, Community, Parade the Circle | 6 Comments »
My Town Monday: Up the Road a Piece to the North
It’s been hot and humid here in my town this past week. So hot in fact, that my fingers alternate between sticking to the keyboard and sliding off. My brain seems to be doing the same; the heat and humidity and pollen from the cottonwoods and the grasses are rendering me without inspiration—–maybe it’s […]
Published by fromskilledhands on June 8th, 2008 tagged creativity, Giveaway, Peninsula, Cuyahoga Valley, My Town Monday, Community, Peninsula Python, Parade the Circle | 13 Comments »
My Town Monday: Better Late Than Never
I have learned an important thing these past few days. My Town is a state of mind. I have traveled more this past month than I have in a very long time; first to New York City at the end of April, and to the Lake Eden Arts Festival, in Black Mountain, NC, this […]
Published by fromskilledhands on May 13th, 2008 tagged creativity, Art, Craft, Discoveries, My Town Monday, Home | 13 Comments »
Happy Trails to Me
#2 daughter and I are off to North Carolina for the Lake Eden Arts Festival this afternoon.
We’ll be traveling with some good friends in a rented SUV; it’s probably the best vehicle for 3 adults, 3 teen aged kids, all our stuff and our camping gear, but I feel like I want to attach […]
Published by fromskilledhands on May 7th, 2008 tagged creativity, Craft, Change, Discoveries, Community, Spring, Traveling | 5 Comments »
What Have You Learned?
Patti, over at the Patti-o recently asked what her readers have learned. She kind of got me thinking about what we learn and how. I have learned how to do lots of things, from writing this blog to embedding a map in a post. I have learned how to be rather than what […]
Published by fromskilledhands on April 22nd, 2008 tagged creativity, Discoveries, Questions, Community, Learning, Umbrelly Drink | 9 Comments »
My Town Monday
Travis Ervin has a way of describing things. His blog, One Word, One Rung, One Day is always an adventure. Travis has instituted My Town Monday, in which he invites others to share their towns. I usually think about it late Tuesday evening or when I am too tired to link thoughts […]
Published by fromskilledhands on March 10th, 2008 tagged creativity, Discoveries, Peninsula, Cuyahoga Valley | 11 Comments »
Six-Word Memoirs
The story goes like this: Ernest Hemingway was asked to write a novel using only six words. He obliged: “For sale: baby shoes. Never used.” Smith Magazine challenged it’s readers to do the same. The readers acquiesced, coming up with a plethora of stories. What would your six-word memoir […]
Published by fromskilledhands on February 11th, 2008 tagged creativity, Musings | 5 Comments »
One World, One Heart
I came across the One World, One Heart site kind of by accident. Lisa Oceandreamer, the creator of this event, describes it:
The original idea behind this giveaway event was to bring bloggers together from around the world who may never ordinarily meet. It closes the gap of the blog community and enables […]