This year is a new start for me. I am starting to feel more like myself, excited about the year and what it has in store for me and my family. The last 2 years have been tough ones for me. I lost a family member to a long illness. It took a long time to get back my creative flow without feeling depressed. I always thought I knew what depression was till I went through a period of grief. It has only been a month since I felt like I have my creative energy back. I decided to do a few online art courses to get me back into the creative flow again. It is a course by Donna Downey , called Inspirational Wednesday (IW2017). It is a weekly inspirational art journaling course. Each week there are video's showing you a new technique. As Donna is in the USA, I don't have all the supplies for each week, but I am sure I can substitute some of the supplies I have for the ones Donna uses. My goal for the IW2017 course is to learn new techniques that I can use in my o
I have to admit now that I have had a year long writers block! When I started blogging, it was so much fun and the words flowed so easily. Last year, 2014, I would start drafts of blogs and never finished them. Today I came up with a theory on how to break that writers block. It all started when I was talking to a business acquaintance about an article he wrote about Ideas.( Have-you-got-great-idea By Matthew Farmer ). As I read Matthew's comments about an "Ideas" book and how to use those "Ideas" in your business, I thought about how much I missed writing in my blog posts each week. I spoke to Matthew about having a writers block and that when I was in University I use to have a special outfit I wore when I studied. That got me thinking that maybe I should apply that same theory to my blog writing and painting. Well, that started both of us talking about having a special outfit to help set the mood for writing. It was a very interesting co