{"id":40530,"date":"2018-06-01T06:53:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T13:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=40530"},"modified":"2018-05-28T11:31:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T18:31:32","slug":"creative-spark-25-make-a-soul-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/creative-spark-25-make-a-soul-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Spark #25: Make a Soul Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Soul Box is a way to do &#8220;soul archaeology&#8230;while making a meaningful reminder of what is most important to you?&#8221; (pg.105).<\/p>\n<p>In this chapter, Bloomston gives the reader a list of supplies to make an actual box. This is a very physical activity. Sometimes, making something that is not in our regular media leads to a new place in your chosen medium. I get so much inspiration from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/off-topic-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">making books<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/tutorial-paper-wreath\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">folding paper<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/cqfa-unconventional-materials-exercise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gluing paper to things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/creative-spark-24-shine-your-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the last post<\/a> on this topic from a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Nota bene: we are working through Carrie Bloomston\u2019s book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1607059606\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1607059606&amp;linkId=c1208208167f2ca0da0dc49c0e646520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Little Spark<\/a>. Buy it. Support the artist. Play along. There is much more to each spark than what I am writing. The original chapters will help you. Go buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carriebloomston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carrie Bloomston<\/a>\u2019s book, so you get the full benefit of her fabulousness! You can see my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/book-review-the-little-spark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book review<\/a>, which is what started this flight of fancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Soul Box is a way to do &#8220;soul archaeology&#8230;while making a meaningful reminder of what is most important to you?&#8221; (pg.105). In this chapter, Bloomston gives the reader a list of supplies to make an actual box. This is a very physical activity. Sometimes, making something that is not in our regular media leads &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/creative-spark-25-make-a-soul-box\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creative Spark #25: Make a Soul Box&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[311,72,319],"class_list":["post-40530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-creativity","tag-group-project","tag-inspiration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}