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Melody Watson: Tap into your creativity
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Creative, ADD, optimist, nomad. I design websites with Squarespace & blog about whatever catches my attention.
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Untitled mandala
Sometimes I draw these. The circular format of the mandala is contained and somehow makes...
Llama Lu Lu uses Squarespace for her blog. She's 8 & already has fabulous taste. (Not to mention her co-blogger, Lisa...her mom.)
Okay, fine. Maybe Stretch Armstrong isn't on the market anymore. Or Cabbage Patch Dolls. Kids today are missing them too. On the other hand, the little girl I was back then would have loved to get her hands on a blog. Can you imagine?Tarah Rosendahl...
8 Irresistible Principles of Fun: More than a clever Web 2.0 hook
When I stumbled across the site, The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun, I thought, "Cool! This will be a distracting little highlight to my day. A few minutes of fun is probably exactly what I should take time for!" It was way, way better than tha...
If you say "it's not a poem" perhaps you can still say what you need to say without being judged as a poet
While trying to get myself into the right frame of mind to switch to the next project - a project I quite like, it must be pointed out - and struggling to do so, I remembered a photo I took this summer. Curious, I opened the folder where this set wa...
Wee slice of life - early August edition
Craving less nomad (for a while, anyway)
"A Castle on the Ocean" made of paper
It took 4 years to build and is made of paper. And I am enthralled. Go look at more photos of this amazing piece by Tokyo art student, Wataru Itou, over here at Tokyo Bling's Blog. ...
In praise of the anonymous blogger
For your reading pleasure today, dear reader, is a sliver of the conversation I just had with my sister about how at the moment I Think My Blog Is The Most Boring Thing Of Ever. Specifically I refer to original content...the slice-of-life stuff I som...
Videos to explain all manner of web-based goodness - & more...
Do you ever come across a product you think is so great you want everybody you know to hear about it? It was a few days ago and now I can't remember how I came to discover it, but I found a video - actually better than that: a series of videos - that...
Bohemian Rhapsody, old school computer version
I give you: evidence of talent I do not possess: But it's cool somebody else does!...
Toxel is unusual and creative
What do strawberries, Yosemite Falls, hammocks, watermelons, swings, school busses and LEDs have in common? They're all represented in Toxel.com's recent "15 Unusual and Creative Bus Stops" post. They've gathered photos of some seriously unique busst...
"You be da fake Mimi!"
About a week agoOne of my favorite things in the world is when I get to talk to Mr. Pie on the phone. Now that Rami is 3, he's got more opinions than ever, and the Magical ExpandaVocabulary that matches is sometimes the funniest stuff I've ever heard...
Obsessing over a chain?
Yesterday evening I got a text message from a friend: "If you're around, we're going for dollar tacos. Wanna' come?" I quite wanted to come. But no. I'll not be making this week's gathering. Texted him back that I'm in WV, finally, but hopefully we'l...
Most fun Squarespace-based website collaboration so far?
When I read their first email, I knew I had to land this project. Had. To. What they described was every free-spirited, nomadic, creative-type's fantasy. And They Were Actually Embarking On That Fantasy! If I couldn't join them, at least I could...
Revisiting "How to be Creative" by Hugh McLeod
It's been a couple of years since I first read Hugh McLeod's How to be Creative, from his blog gapingvoid. That was long before Twitter. Today he's mentioned his forthcoming book on Twitter. Due out June 2009, the book version will be called Ignore E...
I fall a little in love with ALL my clients...
It doesn't seem to matter what kind of project I'm working on, as a freelancer, I try to create the luxury of taking the exact amount of time I need with every new client. In those hours, days, weeks - sometimes months - of collaborating, of putting ...
Just fell in love with a Jeanette LeBlanc photo
I. Cannot. Stop. Looking. At. This. Photo. And it's not because there's rain pouring down in front of me, outside the window I look out while working. Nor is it because I sometimes ask myself "What if I'd pursued that dream of becoming a photographe...
Fabulous discovery tool for combatting writer's block
The site is brilliant, I tell you! Check it out. If you found yourself unable to write, but needing - or wanting -...
If all my shows were like "Those Creative Women" it would be a lot harder to take this break
It's true, Saturday was a bit of perfection. If you're a guy and you haven't already picked up on it, this was a seriously girly hoo ha. Consider yourself warned. I'm gonna' tell you all about it. No. That's a lie. I'm gonna' tell you a little about ...
Found article on creativity and conscious living
Moving through this day with serious gusto, accomplishing a variety of items that you yourself would never in a million years put on a single list, I've been thinking about creativity. What creativity means. What it means to live creatively. I tend t...
Finally, Those Creative Women... tomorrow!
At long last, and after much anticipation, tomorrow brings Those Creative Women! I've gone on and on about it enough in my blog that there's no need to say more now. Just that I hope you can come. Seriously. Gonna' be a way cool fun day. ...
It is SOOOO not a craft fair; "Those Creative Women" event almost here!
So what does the workspace and to do list of Those Creative Women look like in the days leading up to the first ever event by this name? Well, hard to say about the others (athough one email during the weekend said, "I have been working like a dog!" ...
"You are so good at blogging about the most interestingly random topics!"
It seemed like every hour or two, somebody was doubled over with laughter for yet another reason. Hanging out with Cindy Cage for two days straight was one of my favorite things about participating in A Bit of Indulgence last month. And her own laugh...
Flying string of wooden beads & other High Entertainment activities
This isn't entirely a blog post about my nephew. I mean, yea, he features prominently here. But it's also a little rant about the role of creativity in my family and how some of us got that gene and others? Well, maybe not so much. As was recently me...
How 'bout one more drawing before November 8?
Somewhere along the way this afternoon, it occurred to me that I want to do another drawing sometime before Those Creative Women hold our Big Fabulous Day of Shopping and Social Delights on November 8. Wouldn't that be fun? 'Cept next time...
1, 2, 3... Just like that you're in my drawing!
And here you thought it was just an ordinary Wednesday. Heh. I scoff at ordinary Wednesdays! This is the Wednesday I give something away. Yup! Come midnight, one lucky winner will...
How many degrees of separation?
Here's a fun little note I received a couple of days ago. Sis forwarded this email to me:Subject: funny six degrees internet thingSo, I was reading this home decor blog that I read whenever I want inspiration to shove around the stuff that we have in...
My Squarespace playground is expanding
Do you also find that challenges come to you in waves? In topical clusters? This very week, I've been challenged in new and interesting ways. Three different clients have provided me with samples of things they'd like to see in their new websites...w...
Collaboration: dotmatrix project-Style
The Breen Burro photo by John LeonardHere. Have a little background music while you read. Follow this link, then click the arrow in the upper right corner. Molly McGinn's "Kill Devil Hills" is playing here while I write; wanted you to enjoy it, too. ...
About Those Creative Women
A couple of months ago, right about the time I declared, "I'm going to be limiting my show participation this year," 3 different groups invited me - all within about a week of each other - to join them in their seasonal event planning. So much for li...
