Doodlebot says hello. 😊
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What are you creating today? And if the answer is “nothing,” can you carve out just two minutes to doodle? Seriously!! It’s amazing how taking a *tiny* bit of time for creative play can make a big difference toward refreshing your entire being! You think more clearly, you see possibilities where before there were none, your entire outlook lifts from “bleah” to “better!”
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Creative play is not an indulgence. Not a frivolous waste of time. It’s essential. How are you going to give yourself some today?
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Ready to immerse yourself? Come to my next Creative Sandbox Playday or 5-day Creative Sandbox Retreat (links in profile) and watch your life transform. 😊
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176: Accept and Build
Note: For the fullest experience, I recommend listening to the podcast, as the audio version always contains additional comments and tangents not found in the blog post version.
I feel like I’ve been away for a solid month. And that’s not far from reality, because I was in Paris and Basel for 2 1/2 weeks, and then I was home for a week recovering from jet lag and preparing for my Creative Sandbox Retreat, and then I was away again at my Creative Sandbox Retreat.
And now, as I’m recording this, it is exactly one month from the day we landed in Paris!
Anyway, Paris and Basel were amazing. Best vacation we’ve ever had.
Even though, I spent the entire time, from the fourth day onwards, on crutches!
Yes, that’s right, on our third day in Paris I [Read more…]
Snapshot from My Studio: September 17, 2018 at 09:21PM
This bedtime doodle is definitely inspired by the Dada art I saw at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Artists playing—that’s what Dada feels like to me. 😊
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Goodnight!
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Snapshot from My Studio: September 17, 2018 at 04:20PM
Detail shot, after adding some of those distinguished grey whiskers I so love in the beard of that man of mine. 😊
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I still kind of can’t believe I even attempted to draw a *portrait*! Yet it’s not the first one in my Paris/Basel travel journal. How did I brave such a task? By planting myself firmly inside the Creative Sandbox, where it’s all about PLAY! Where there is no wrong (Guidepost #1, in case you haven’t read my book, The Creative Sandbox Way™), where we think process, not product (Guidepost #2). Where we dismiss all gremlins (Guidepost #8) and treat ourselves with compassion (Guidepost #10). 🖍
At Creative Sandbox Retreat, we practice all of the Guideposts, and more. And we laugh a TON while we’re doing it. 😊 We celebrate “mistakes” and “failures,” and talk about jumping on the “crap wagon.” (Because we all know we need to let ourselves make crap in order to improve! We need the crap to fertilize the good stuff!)
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Really, the only bad part about Creative Sandbox Retreat is having to leave. 😞
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The next *scheduled* Creative Sandbox Retreat is September 11-15, 2019… BUT you can come to a half-day Playday to get a little taste in the meantime (October 14 and November 25 are the next Creative Sandbox Playdays—click the link in my profile, or go to http://bit.ly/2NWuyAa for more info) plus you may not have to wait a full year to get in on the five-day retreat action. Plans are in the works for a Winter Creative Sandbox Retreat! Stay tuned and sign up on my mailing list to get notified! 😊
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Snapshot from My Studio: September 16, 2018 at 11:25AM
Detail shot from 8/31/18 page spread of my Paris/Basel travel journal—the final page I’m working on at Creative Sandbox Retreat this year. Painting this goofy pic of my husband has been really fun! I’ve never considered myself “good at drawing” or certainly at drawing or painting people, and although this varies quite a bit from the photo, it still captures enough of his likeness as to be recognizable. It’s been a delight to have at it, and in PEN and WATERCOLOR, no less! Unforgiving media if ever there were any!
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This is the gift of playing in the Creative Sandbox, where there is no wrong (That’s Guidepost #1 of the Creative Sandbox Way™, in case you haven’t read my book yet), and where the goal is to think process, not product (that’s Guidepost #2). 🖍
Here at Creative Sandbox Retreat we endeavor to live by ALL the 10 Guideposts. To let ourselves make crap. To release our inner 4-year-olds and love ourselves up, instead of beating ourselves up all the time. To laugh a TON, and learn from each other. Would that the rest of or lives could always be like this, too!
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Right now the next Creative Sandbox Retreat is scheduled for September 11-15, 2019, though I’m itching to hold another one before a year is up, so there may be a Winter or Spring retreat—stay tuned, and let me know if you’d like to get on the list for a spot. 🖍
In the meantime, for a taste of what these experiences are like, join me at a Creative Sandbox Playday! Click the link in my profile or go to http://bit.ly/2NWuyAa to find out more and sign up—the next one is October 14th!
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