Secret # 2: Honouring your inspirations

1. When did your creative awakening or reawakening occur?
I´m still waiting for it. My new point is I have to make it happen instead of only waiting for it to just show up.
2. What talents do you have naturally?
I can teach because I can take a subject apart, show you the parts, name them, ensamble them again and demonstrate how they articulate.

I inherited my father´s ability to understand a situation´s dynamic within a few minutes and my mother´s empathy.3. Which elements draw you toward them?
In my childhood and early adulthood it was the colour blue and the element air, nowadays it is the coloutr green and the water.
4. Where and when do you create? 
The attic is my craft room but sometimes I feel isolated up there and 

I bring my stuff down, specially  to the kitchen table while the kids are doing homework there (notice the trend?They don´t use their desks either)
5. What activates your creative energy and what drains it?
I wish I had some kind of poetic answer but the honest truth is that I don´t

 know: sometimes I jump up and down and create up a storm, sometimes I feel sad and "nothing is worth much"
6.Do you use creative rituals?
Not to begin with but I´m almost compulsive in the rearrenging of the things on my desk/active shelf (that´s where I put the things that I will be

 using that can´t fit on the desk)
7. Does nature influence your creativity? How?
Not really.
8. What has been your greatest creative hurdle so far?
Thinking what will become of my creations once I´m gone. Will my kids keep my scrapbook pages? They might keep

 their own albums, maybe parts of the family albums (specially the oldest pics dating back to ca.1910) but the rest? What will happen to my flower album? And the home album? What about the Christmas album? Why do I keep creating pages that won´t be kept?
9.What time of day are y

ou most receptive to inspiration?

I´m a night owl. 

This post contains the word page for 2009. The white space is left for my chosen word. I will be changing it as the original "awarenes" made me so sharply clear on what was happening that 

it was driving me crazy. 

This one is the page for January.

The official count down starts today & 12 secrets week 1

My aunt Odesa´s birthday marks the official start of our (that´s me and my son) birthday count down.

A month from now I will be 42 (shudder) and Matu 13 (a teen! eeeeeekkkkkk! lol!).

Now we have a net connection I can play catch up with the 12 secrets blog group.

Secret One: Acknowledging Your Creative Self

I´m really lucky Jamie wrote "Let's start by celebrating that simply by being here, by signing up and putting your name on the blogroll, you have acknowledged your creative self! You have stepped up and stepped in and said, yes, to your creativity". That took a lot of pressure off as I hadn´t been creative at all these past few days.

What about my childhood? 

I was an avid writer, filling up notebooks until my imagination was too detailed / big for words. I felt a movie would reflect all I had in my head better than a book. I never wrote stories again.

Drawings? No, I couldn´t reproduce neither what I saw in real life nor in my head.

Croos stitch. When we first arrived in the UK I saw some examples at Chester´s visitors centre. "I want to do that" I thought and bought a kids kit. If it was designed  for kids I was going to be able to do it too. ;) I worked on a lot of projects for me and as gifts. I stopped when we came back home. A dragon I was doing for Mati is still unfinished 12 years later.

Scrapbooking. It was great to find that what I had done for years had a name. :D I started doing it the "safe" way in 2001 and then went back to the "everything goes" way. Sometimes I compare my pages to other people´s pages and find them lacking. Lack of visual weight, lack of trendy stuff, lack of comments, lack of creativity in the design, lots of lacks. Some days I quite like my pages. Some days I don´t.

Photography. I only do automatic settings. A bit of pre settings with the Panasonic as it has a lot of them. I don´t take it seriously although I take a ton of pics (Happysnappy ;) ) and other moms ask for my pics from school plays as my Canon is the only camera able to take good pics in low light conditions.

I was very hopeful of my creativity / energy in 2009. Notice the use of "was". Somehow I have lost track of it and I´m trying to get back in the groove.

Talking about pics, a couple from today: