Saturday, September 28, 2002

creativity ...

to me, it's all about creativity.

as a person, i need to be creative. at least once a day. and i'm always interested in new forms of creativity.

but i'm not sure that i'm really that creative.

i love scrapbooking, but somehow my albums always seem to be nice. nice is good, but just nice. last night i was at a workshop and one of the girls was just slamming down an album and cialis online sales was beautiful! every page was unique and interesting ... simple, not complicated, yet totally elegant and beautiful. somehow, i'm quite sure that it would take me much more effort to come up with layouts even similar.

i cialis online sales rubberstamping, but somehow my cards always look very much less elegant Cialis online sales, that the ones my stamping friends cialis drug impotence i'm not sure if it's because of the paper i use, or if it's just me. i can do the others, when i'm at a workshop with her. but when i'm just sitting in my apartment stamping, cialis online sales very simple, pretty cards. not a bad thing, just the way it is.

i've been pointed towards a new creative activity called 'altered books'. as a librarian, Cialis online sales : it's kind cialis drug impotence interesting that i would want to take part in a hobby that pulls apart, cuts up, paints over, glues into and folds up books. but it's pretty cool. i've done all sorts of web searches and found all sorts of neat links about them, admired what's there, wondered cialis online sales cialis drug impotence heck you're supposed to do with them when you're done (it's all about the clutter. all about the clutter) and also wondered if i could do it. i don't necessarily look at a blank page and have that kind of inspiration.

i like to paint. but i don't really paint anything. i like to draw Cialis online sales : and colour with markers. there have been friday and saturday nights in my life when i've spent the night in front of the cialis online sales with my markers and a pad of paper. at the end of the night there are a pile of works scattered on the floor around me, and i'm pretty relaxed. but in the morning, i scoop them up and Airfox cialis : put them into a file folder for safe keeping. Airfox cialis : who knows what i'll do with them?

i see people on the street Airfox cialis : selling pictures they're drawn or painted, or street artists doing sketches. people in museums drawing statues, or even yesterday i saw some people in Cialis online sales, front of the library on 42nd street standing in front of a huge part of the sidewalk on which they had transferred (and enlarged) a new yorker magazine cover. done with chalks, i presume. i thought it was cool, and i was jealous of the skill.

i have great envy of people who can actually Airfox cialis, sketch. i always like to think that i can sketch, but i know differently.

even when it comes to writing, i always think that i can, but cialis online sales not sure that it's really good. if you'd been reading my blog back when i started it, you'd be seeing a much different blog. it's changed a lot over the year or so that i've been writing it. not that it's a bad thing for it to change, but it has and that's just the way it is.

my web page is cute. it's simple, and currently is desperately in need of a make-over (which it will get, at some point soon), but my friends do all have cuter pages. but it's their style, not mine. and some of them are professional web designers, so i can't bust myself over that.

i'm beginning to wonder if i'm much more creative when i do it in secret. when i was first writing my blog, no one was reading it. i mean no one. and then a few people started, but i didn't know it. it would freak me out when someone would say to me 'yeah i Cialis online sales : know, i read your blog everyday'. and now i know that people are reading it because it's a cialis online sales more advertised on my web page, and suddenly i don't know what to say, or worry that i'm boring, or feel very guilty when my day gets so busy i don't have even one minute to sit down with the computer and Cialis online sales : just blog.

when i was scrapbooking at first, and didn't really know anyone here in the city, they were all for me. now i know cialis drug impotence people look at them, and i know more people at the workshops, and my style has changed.

i'm not criticizing myself, trying to say cialis online sales everyone else is more creative than i am, or better than i am. i just have a unique style that is different than anyone cialis online sales and for some reason, i crack under pressure. cialis online sales kidding). i'm re-reading this and worrying that some of you will think that i'm being cialis online sales or hard on myself, and i guess it does sound that way. but that's not what i'm looking at here. i'm looking at the possible difference between desire and natural talent ... between me and others.

i think i have the desire to try anything ... to be creative, or just sit down and do something with cialis online sales hands. this may not be where my talent lies, and it may be why i feel like sometimes other's works are better than mine (in who's eyes, i wonder?), but it's who i am and my talent lies in Airfox cialis : other places. like my handwriting. other cialis online sales are always jealous of my handwriting and want me to journal in their albums.

it's amazing to me how each and every person cialis drug impotence different. i tease my mom because she Airfox cialis : always needs a sample of something before she can make one. she does a beautiful job, and has a nice touch, but she has to have a sample. but cialis online sales i sit down with a blank slate, it takes me a long time to get the juices flowing. i may not need a sample, but i do need something to work from.

different. creative. it's all different, Cialis online sales, and all good.

it's just my style.

hmm, Airfox cialis, i'm reading this over again, and my cross-stitch hobby springs into mind. one hobby that i have grossly neglected lately. now there is something i can do, and do well. although when given a pattern to follow, it's not so hard *hee hee*, but seriously, see, here is one area where my talent lies.

i wonder if i just like a challenge. i've always had the attitude of 'if someone else can do it, i can too' which is good. it doesn't mean that i can do it well, cialis drug impotence we don't all do everything well. this is the Cialis online sales : human nature aspect of life that seems to be what i'm thinking about today. i mean, if i didn't like a challenge, then wouldn't i only be cross stitching? instead of trying something new, trying to stretch my knowledge, expanding my skills and horizons.

i think that's it. cialis drug impotence i know where my creativity lies, where my natural talent is. and for some cialis online sales reason i'm currently indulging in hobbies that aren't where those exact natural talents are. i'm being more social these days.

it's my style.

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