30 Days Update

How are you doing on  your 30 Days? I'm hoping even if you're not creating, you're seeing things in a different light as you're out there in the world. I know I've actually been turning pages of magazines with an eye for "can I make that myself somehow?" and ripping out inspiration pages left and right.

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Note to self... Purchase second bulletin board...

Here's my latest attempt at trying to master a new creative feat: The Chevron Friendship Bracelet. Remember those guys? Takes me back to camp bunks and taking a polar bear plunge in the wee hours of the morning in a freezing lake.

Super on-trend for summer, the old-school friendship bracelet is back and now can be created with more dextrous fingers and better taste in color than when you were nine (...well, hopefully).

First Attempt Bracelet by Yours Truly!

 Here's the tutorial I used to learn via Honestly...WTF. Clear instructions with lovely photos of each step. Fun and easy to do while catching up on all those mind expanding documentaries waiting on your dvr... like... The Bachelorette.

'Fess up, I know it's not just me.

 

Nearly Finished - Note the Puggle lounge in the background...

Challenge!

Call it mission impossible, but I am issuing a challenge: It's 30 Days Of Creativity, a call to all willing minds and hands to dive in and think outside the box  for the month of June.

I've been on a bit of a crafty kick of late - sitting at a desk drooling over blogs will do that to you - and have found this line of the 30 Days challenge to be true: "Your brain is like a muscle. The more  you exercise it, the stronger it gets."  I'm going to add increased flexibility to that too - Once I get going on a project I find I'm already thinking about my next, and how I can stretch it and make it better!

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Now. I have friends who say (*ahem* EKD.) that they're not crafty. Lies! Crafty doesn't mean you're able to make a store-ready creation that the world will be clamoring for.

Far from it.

You can get crafty by adding a different spice to your tried and true recipe. Or by figuring out a new way to hang up your pile of necklaces. Try a new hairstyle. Eye makeup. Refrigerator magnet configuration. Or - my current obsession - by hacking up t-shirts to make them customized. Anything goes, and 100% counts as creativity if it's off your normal beaten track.

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Go forth and create! If you want to share your work with the creators and followers of the project, feel free to email photos to submit@30daysofcreativity.com, or follow them on Twitter: #30daysofcreativity.

 

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