Dreams

Always hold on to your good dreams.

-Kat

Tea and Books

This is a sentiment I feel pretty strongly, but have absolutely no time to act on now; so I thought I'd share.

-Kat

Knit Fast

I don't have much time to knit right now, so I need to print this out and hang it somewhere to remind me to do it when I can.

-Kat

Sunshine

My mom always used to sing this too me when I was little. It's one of my favorite songs.

-Kat

Snow Dust

I've been having a really happy week or so, and it reminded me of this poem. I thought I'd share, and hopefully it'll bring a smile to some other faces too.

-Kat

No Games No Picnics

The weather here has been beautiful for the last week or so, and I've been spending a lot more time outside - usually taking my study there. Today I was talking with a few friends about some of my time in England, and the way we could picnic almost every day because the weather was so wonderful. Having that on my mind, I made a small scrapbook of some of the time we spend outdoors in England. The first pictures are from a picnic in the Magdalene College Fellows Garden where there was a sign posted saying "No games, no picnics." We had to ignore that rule, because it was so lovely.

-Kat

Acquainted with the Night

Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets. He's the poet I wrote about when I first learned to write an academic paper, and I've loved his poetry ever since. This has always been one of my favorites, it's musicality haunts me.

Morning Prayer

Last night I had a dream about writing a story set in a monastery, and it was really interesting, so I decided to write it. Just not today. Today, like all Wednesdays, was a busy day, so I got very little writing done. I do promise a story with a monastic setting in the future though!

What about today, you ask? Well my mind and body have been at church for a good bit of the day, so I decided to make a page of a prayer that's important to me. I enjoy written prayers, and this is one I found recently that I think is very good. It's by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

-Kat

Eternity

I love poetry, although I really can't write it. Today I made a page with a poem that I really enjoy by William Blake entitled "Eternity."

-Kat

Knitting

One of my favorite creative things to do is knit. Unfortunately I don't share it here as often because knitting takes a lot of time. I'm in the middle of a sweater right now, and can't wait until I can post it here, but until then I decided it might be fun to make a record of some of the projects I've made and loved in the past. So, here is a scrapbook page of some of my knitting.

I thought of this today especially because it was surprisingly cold today, so I was thrilled to be able to pull Pete (the orange sweater at the top) out and wear it.

-Kat

Dreaming

The past couple of days I've been thinking a lot. Too much really, and to avoid rumination I often turn to meditation or books. Books are wonderful, because they provide a means of losing yourself in another world, and the plot actually hangs together, which is often hard to discern in  real life.

To remind myself of that I made this:

It should go great right next to my bookcase.

-Kat

In Which I Scrapbook

Yesterday I thought a lot and decided to write a blog about it. I had every intention of doing what I said I would do, but my brother Kevin came up with an even better idea. Read his post and you can see the challenge I unwittingly got myself into. http://fakingmyway.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/challenge-accepted/

I really appreciate Kevin's support and accountability, and now if all goes well there'll be twice as much creative stuff as there would have been if I'd tried this on my own, and you can follow both of our blogs and see all of that creative output. Also, there'll be a free dinner for one of us sometime in the future.

This creativity duel might change my focus a bit. Knitting and cross-stitching take a long time. I'll continue to do things, but Kevin established that only completed things (I made this sleeve! etc.) count. Due to this I'm going to have to venture out a bit and I will probably end up writing more. Since I've wanted to try my hand at writing for the better part of a year and simply haven't found the time on my own, I expect good things from this. (Good things by way of me practicing, more so than necessarily good writing - I'm still really new at it).

My only question for you, Kevin, is does cooking a meal count? Not making a PB&J, but actually cooking? I don't get to do it as much as I want to, but I've been counting good cooking as creativity in my head.

Finally, if you read his blog you will have noticed that Kevin wasted no time in beginning, and has put some new Haiku on his blog. So, what have I created today? I don't think I mentioned on the last blog that I recently took up digital scrapbooking (thanks Mom!). Today I made this:

I intend on printing it out and hanging it in my apartment post haste. Now we just have to wait and see what tomorrow brings from the both of us.

-Kat