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Choose an object to symbolize your creativity and put it in a place you can see it every day.
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Creativity. It's not something that I recognize easily within myself. I've never been artistic. Or "crafty". I never had the best project in art class. Couldn't write an interesting story. Didn't have talent in dance either. But... I am creative in less traditional ways.
I'm a scientist. Working in this field forces me to think outside of the box a lot of times. Experiment not working? What could be wrong? How can you test each step to find the issue? Creative trouble-shooting, if you will. My job also forces me to find ways to organize massive amounts of information. This is admittedly an area that I still struggle with. Updating my lab notebook is still more of a chore than a pleasure, but I do try to keep if fun by using different colors and silly notes and drawings. :)
I do have some more traditional talents as well. I'm an amateur photographer. I like taking pictures, but have fallen out of the habit. Need to find more time for this. I wouldn't say I'm great at it, but I do surprise myself from time to time. I'm also told by my husband that I have quite a talent for painting ceramics. I could never just take a blank canvas and create something beautiful, but give me a ceramic penguin and I get by just fine.
Or maybe a ceramic house. In progress.
My mom has a whole Halloween village of my ceramic paintings--a haunted house with Wolfman, Dracula and Frankenstein, bats, pumpkins and other spooks, villagers, a haunted ship wreck, etc. It's super cool and I'm really jealous that it gets to live at her house and not mine. :) This type of painting is also a good exercise for my patience. I'm a perfectionist and everything has to be just. so. and it sometimes take quite a bit of time to get it there. Here's the piece that I'm the most proud of thus far, Santa. I painted him a couple years ago and I am still delighted every year when I can display him.
Finally, I try to be creative in my home "design". Designing your home? I certainly had never imagined I'd be stressed about that! What an intimidating concept!!! Have I mentioned that we recently remodeled our kitchen??? Oh my, what a job that was! And yes, it was definitely intimidating making all of these very grown-up decisions... paint, tiles, appliances, how will it all go together?! Well, we're nearly done. And I am so, so PROUD of the outcome. I feel less intimidated now at the thought of tackling the rest of the house and am actually looking forward to it!
Without further ado, the before and afters...
Details to come: backsplash and trim. Hardware is already installed but I haven't taken new pictures yet. My kitchen is now a constant reminder of the fact that I can create something pretty. How awesome is that.
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