Creative Prompt #40: Wish

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Make a wish

Make-A-Wish Foundation

A hope or desire for something.

If you rub the lamp, a genie will give you three wishes

WISH – a TV station in Indianapolis

Nine Inch Nails performs Wish

Wish you were here (song by Pink Floyd of the same name)

Wish bone

Wish-bone salad dressing

What is on your wish list?

I wish I had thought of that!

Wish upon a star

Wishing well

Wish you well

Creative Prompt #39: Spirit

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The Spirit of St. Louis

She’s got spirit!

A spirited horse.

Spirit Airlines

A supernatural being (ghost)

Holy Spirit

Sprites, elves, fairies and wood spirits

Spirit squad / cheerleaders

Spirit totem

An independent spirit

Spirit Awards

NASA’s Spirit Rover

Creative Prompt #38: Glimmer

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Definition: 1 a : to shine faintly or unsteadily b : to give off a subdued unsteady reflection
2 : to appear indistinctly with a faintly luminous quality

A glimmer of hope

LG Glimmer cell phone

The Glimmer Man (1996) – Directed by John Gray. With Steven Seagal, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bob Gunton.

Glimmer, a poem by Carl Sandburg

LET down your braids of hair, lady.
Cross your legs and sit before the looking-glass
And gaze long on lines under your eyes.
Life writes; men dance.
And you know how men pay women.

(odd poem, I know, but I was getting a little hard up for inspiration)

Quilt for a Cause

I heard the most recent CraftSanity podcast, which included an interview with the Directors of Margaret’s Hope Chest, a Grand Rapids Michigan nonprofit that provides quilts to people in need. Their mission is: “Our mission at Margaret’s Hope Chest is to bring hope, comfort, and warmth to persons enduring hopeless situations in the Grand Rapids area through the gift of a beautifully crafted quilt.”

They have committed to providing a quilt for each homeless child in Grand Rapids for Christmas, which will be given along with a toy and a book. The organization that provides support for homeless children already has the toys and books. This means that Margaret’s Hope Chest has committed to providing at least 400 quilts!

They need help. I am providing some free ‘advertising’ for them, because I think their reason for being is really great. You can hear the whole story on the CraftSanity podcast, but the short version is that they created Margaret’s Hope Chest as positive way to deal with the grief over the death their mother / grandmother. She died of wounds inflicted when someone tried to snatch her purse.

The organization needs quilts and tops to arrive by November 15. If you have a quilt or top you are willing to send for a homeless child ages 0-17, or you are willing to make one, please send all donated quilts to:

Margaret’s Hope Chest
630 Griswold SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49507

For further information feel free to call or e-mail:

Carin Vogelzang
(616) 855-2862
margaretshopechest@yahoo.com

One thing they pointed out is they need quilts for male teenagers as well as little girls who love pink. Think of a child for whom you would like to make a quilt and make that quilt.

The quilt can be made from any pattern that involves squares.
I know this organization is probably not in your area, so if you want to do something, but want it to be local, send something to a local charity. They can always use a quilt or a crochet afghan or a knitted scarf.

Thank you!
clipped from craftsanity.com

Quilting for a cause

Calling all quilters! Margaret’s Hope Chest, a Grand Rapids-based quilt charity, needs your help to make 400 quilts to give homeless children living in shelters over the Christmas holiday.
Today my art & craft column is about Carin Vogelzang, and her mother, Carol Peters, the women who turned a family tragedy into an inspiring cause. Carin, of Toronto, and her mother, Carol, of Grand Rapids, co-founded the quilt charity Margaret’s Hope Chest in honor of Peters’ mom, Margaret Herrema, who died after she was critically injured during a purse-snatching in 2005. They have given away 102 quilts since founding the charity in Margaret’s name in 2007. Read the story of how Carin and Carol are giving people hope one quilt at a time.
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Creative Prompt #37: Gracious

This is a tribute to my friend, Pinky Davidson, the epitome of kindness, a gracious, well mannered woman who took a genuine interest in all of her younger friends.

Gracious definition: marked by kindness and courtesy

Good gracious!

Gracious living.

Gracious me!

He is such a gracious host.

Sew Gracious Blog – lots of ads for her Etsy Shop, but the Wordless Wednesday is interesting.

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Response #35

Purple Journal Page
Purple Journal Page

This isn’t the response I wanted to put up. The prompts are stacking up, however and I was starting to get anxious. As I looked through the journal pages from the  A Work of Heart session/class, I found this page and thought you might enjoy seeing it.

I worked really hard on the studies for a drawing response to Purple that I can’t just let go. Look for another Purple response some day.

Creative Prompt #36: Feather

Wikipedia definition:  one of the epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds. They are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates.

Light as a feather.

Peacock, ostrich, hummingbirds and pheasant feathers.

Feather River, Quincy, CA

Feather boa.

Plume

Quill.

Pin feathers.

Fly tying.

Down pillows.

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Sketching #34

CPP Response #34
CPP Response #34

Summer was a difficult prompt. It is hard to draw (my mode of expression in the CPP, mostly) an expression of summer without people. I do find a few people or parts of people starting to creep into my studies for the CPP responses. Hhmmm. Let me know what you think and I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Check out Kathy’s Bliss Initiative, which is on Creativity this week.

Creative Prompt #35: Purple

SURPRISE!!!!!!

I am posting a special creative prompt to coincide with her “virtue of bliss” for creativity week.

Kathy, my long time friend, is doing a year long project on adding more bliss to her life. You can see her blog, Everyday Bliss, and learn more about the project on her blog.

To inspire you….

Purple has always been a royal color

Kathy thinks of purple as a magical or fairy color

Julie‘s favorite color

Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze

Purple People Eater

Jessie has a pink and purple monster that lives behind her house

Abby Kadabby from Sesame Street

Purple Rain from Prince

Barney the Purple Dinosaur

Grapes

Purple is the color of the font that Kathy uses for her Monday post font color

McDonald’s character, Grimace

Purple is a general term used in English for the range of shades of color occurring between red and blue (Wikipedia)

Harold and the Purple Crayon

Violets (color and flower)

Iris, Orchids and Crocuses

Purple Dragon Tour Company

I have never seen a purple cow I never hope to see one… by Gelett Burgess

MTA Maryland has a purple line

Lavender

Purple Cafe and Wine Bar in Downtown Seattle

Deep Purple

Purple Cow by Seth Godin

When I am an Old Woman, I Will Wear Purple

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Order of the Purple Heart

Creative Prompt #34: Summer

Summer may be over, but this prompt will give you the opportunity to relive it. Summer is one of the four temperate seasons, marked by the warmest time of year with the longest days, and lies between spring and autumn. (from Wikipedia)

Beach Boys

Endless Summer

Summer Session.

Summer school.

Summer stock.

Barbeque, cookouts, picnics.

Summer jobs.

School’s out for summer!

Donna Summer

500 Days of Summer

Summer Solstice

Summertime lime

Indian summer

Summer camp

Summer internship

Summer Olympics

Summer abroad

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Sketching #33

Creative Prompt Response: Spiral #33
Creative Prompt Response: Spiral #33

After working so hard on the detail on last week’s response, I find that this one doesn’t have enough detail. I did a number of studies and couldn’t figure out what else to add so I am just posting it.

On one hand, the art on the wall of the dining room has a lot of detail. Perhaps it balances the sparseness of the rest of the drawing?

Creative Prompt #33: Spiral

You should all have fun with this one!

Definition from Wikipedia: In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a central point, getting progressively farther away as it revolves around the point.

Fibonacci Spiral.

2007 movie directed by Adam Green and Joel Moore.

Spiral anime.

Nautilus shells.

Spiral notebook.

Spiraling out of control.

Fermat’s spiral.

Miquelrius notebook.

Periodic Spiral is a unique redesign of the Mendeleyevian periodic table

Spiral of Archimedes.

Death spiral.

Spirograph Box
Spirograph Box

Spirograph (see www.samstoybox.com/toys/Spirograph.html)

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