30 Days of Creativity

In true friend of a friend of a friend fashion, I started reading a professional photographer's blog last fall. Yesterday, she offered this challenge and I accepted.

Basically, I need to do something creative every day for the next thirty days (starting today)! Joe and I have talked about how we both have this need to do creative things, but when we get busy it gets pushed aside. Even though we'll be traveling a lot and I've got a lot of things on my plate for the next month, I think life will often be like this. So fitting in creativity will be good practice.

I'd love to have more friends doing this with me, so let me know if you plan to do it (or a modified version)! It can be simple, too. Some examples Shauna gives range from "try a new recipe" to "re-create an outfit you find in a magazine with your own clothes" to "design a tattoo (you don't ever have to get it)." What neat ideas!

I have tons of ideas for creative projects, and I can rather obsess over them. It's common for Joe and I to be talking and then all of a sudden I say "we could use that green paint from the back room for the painting." And then Joe laughs. It's like there's some small part of my brain that spends all waking and sleeping hours thinking about creative projects. The more I ignore it or push it away, the more it jumps out at random times.

Somewhat random aside: For the past couple of years we've had a garden, but since we just bought a home that needs a lot of work inside, I don't have one right now. One fun thing with a garden was trying to come up with new ways to use some of the food. Who knows how many mint recipes I've looked at! I'm a little sad that I won't get to work in any creativity with our garden food.

I'm going to write down some ideas that I may like to attempt during this next 30 days, mostly as a reference for me. I'll probably add to the list later as I think of things. Also, I'll try to post what my daily projects are / were.

Creative ideas:
1. Put together some of my holiday recipes in some cute way. I've started to really like being a main cook for Thanksgiving or Christmas meals. Last year I feel like I got the timing down pretty well, and was happy with the old and new recipes. I've also been creating some of my own desserts that I should write down recipes for before I forget!
2. Make a surprise gift. (I have a very specific thing in mind, but if I write on here it will no longer be a surprise!)
3. A "Be Thou My Vision" art project that's been floating around in my head a few weeks.
4. Play our piano (if we get it this weekend) for thirty minutes (for the first time in YEARS).
5. Try a new DINNER recipe (baking dessert doesn't count).
6. Decorate our refrigerator (put pictures on it).
7. Record a song with Joe (or at least start).
8. Write a last verse (can just be a draft) for a song I've been working a while.

Wow... 30 days is a long time! Any more suggestions for creative things to do?