Blog - Melissa Dinwiddie | Create the Impossible™ | Innovation Keynote Speaker & Consultant

February 2, 2024

Making Art In Bed..?!

COVID is no fun, but while I was in bed during the worst of it last week, I was able to make this card for my husband’s birthday, so that was a win. 🤩

There’s something especially delightful about making art in bed. I first got into the habit back in 2015/2016, when I realized that I wasn’t making it to my art table to do my daily creating.

The gravitational pull of my computer was so strong, that once I started work, even just turning around to play for a couple of minutes at my art table just wasn’t happening anymore. 😖

I needed a new tactic.
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October 9, 2023

The Latest Pattern I’ve Been Wrangling

Here’s the pattern I’ve been wrangling with lately — tell me if you relate:

I have an idea for something I’d like to share / try / do.

For example:

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August 18, 2020

The strangest gift I’ve received from the pandemic

It’s a discussion topic you can’t miss these days: gifts from the pandemic.

Silver linings from this disaster that’s befallen us.

Like weekly Zoom calls with my nephew, who lives in London (and has my hair!). Those never happened before COVID.

Some people are learning to bake bread.

Others are getting more time in their gardens (goodness knows, that’s not me, alas…)

But perhaps the strangest gift I’ve received, and the one that sparks delight, awe, confusion, and frustration in equal measures, and all throughout the day?

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July 29, 2020

My experiment with NOT meditating

Back in May, I got a gift subscription to the Calm app — a little perk of being a Kaiser-Permanente member.

For about five weeks I used it (almost) every day to do a 10-minute meditation.

I “discovered” meditation years ago, thanks to Susan Piver’s Open Heart Project. I’ve fallen off the wagon, and gotten back on, many times in the intervening years.

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July 6, 2020

Let me introduce you to Griselda

I’ve been doing something lately that stirs up my discomfort in a big way.

I’ve been being a beginner again.

Figure drawing.

There are some great websites, like Line of Action and Quickposes, where you can set up timed practice sessions.

60-second poses of nude figures, for example.

I took figure drawing classes way back in… 1995, I think it was..?

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