Hi everyone and welcome to my letter E post in the #AtoZChallenge. There are many E words related to creativity, but I decided to share the things I enjoy about being creative. I chose the word “Excitement” for my post title, because that was the title of the prompt in The Year of You for Creatives that inspired this idea. Now, of course, I can no longer cheat and use another “Ex” word for the letter X, but I try to avoid that at all cost anyway. Tomorrow, if I don’t make up my mind before then, I’m going to share about my creativity-related frustrations.
The first thing I enjoy about being a creative, is learning about other artists’ creative process. I love watching and reading tutorials on the various crafts I enjoy and they truly inspire me. This is more of a recent development, since doing soap making in 2016. Before then, I’d just create what I wanted without any sort of tutorial. This, however, often led to disastrous results.
Another thing I love about my creative work, is shopping for new supplies. Either that or just looking for supplies online without actually buying them. I have a huge wishlist of things I want to buy someday. About a month ago, I decided to put some of them on my online birthday wishlist rather than buying them myself. My birthday isn’t until the end of June, so this is quite the exercise in patience.
A thing I especially love about all of my creative endeavors, is being able to share them online. I am in groups on Facebook for pretty much every craft I dabble in currently (and maybe even some I don’t anymore). I cannot really imagine being creative without sharing my work at all.
Lastly, something I am currently very excited about is finding new techniques to try with my crafts. For instance, today I tried to mix a color with polymer clay using my precision kitchen scale (yay, I finally bought one!). Knowing it turned out as I wanted to (for which, in the case of a color, I of course rely on my staff) is pure delight.
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“The first thing I enjoy about being a creative, is learning…” in that statement you defined creativity perfectly! We learn how to expand our skills, while we learn so much about ourselves. I think creative people are always those who have an endless desire to learn. Great post!
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Oh, that’s such a cool insight! I hadn’t looked at it that way, but now that you point it out, I agree wholeheartedly. Thanks so much.
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You’re welcome.
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I was just talking with some people today on how excitement, both for writing and what I am writing about, keeps me going at my blog.
I am excited also for the interactions the A to Z challenge can bring me. Like finding out about cool blogs like yours!
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Tim Brannan
The Other Side | A to Z of Conspiracy Theories
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Thanks for stopping by. Oh yes, the interactions blogging and creativity in general can provide, are great.
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It’s wonderful you enjoy your crafting so much, we are not creative here at all, we’ve tried.
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Thanks for commenting. You are creative though, in that you write and do photography.
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My creativity stops and ends with writing ;(
I can’t do even diy for daughter’s class properly so covid has been a challenge….but good luck with all ur crafts..this post shows ur love and passion.
http://afshan-shaik.blogspot.com/
(atoz)
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Thanks so much for your comment. It’s totally okay to just like writing as a creative pursuit.
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Oh yes! buying supplies and learning new techniques are so exciting, even if the resulting projects don´t look perfect, they have their unique charm. 😀
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I agree. Besides, if I were perfect from the get go, I probably would not have noticed it.
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Crafting sounds like so much fun! I’m happy it excites you so much! ❤
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Thank you so much. Yes, I’m happy about it too.
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