Made By Humans
I’ve taken part in the Iron Craft challenges from Just Crafty Enough off and on for a few years, though I’ve taken about a six-month break from them. It’s always fun for me to use someone else’s challenges and prompts instead of my own, so I’m going to try to keep up this year. The […]
I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff lately about making your own sketchbooks and art journals, and I thought it would be a great use for some of the embarrassingly massive collection of paper I have. I wanted to spread the process out over several days because we don’t need to rush, and it’s fun […]
This month’s topic for #NWArkCares is civil rights. It’s another one that’s hard for me to write about. I feel like, as a white, straight person, I don’t have a right to talk about racism, bigotry and homophobia. I will never understand — as much as I can empathize, or try to imagine what it […]
Another thing I found while cleaning my office, in addition to the magnetic poetry kit, was a bunch of old business cards. These are from my job at About, which I still have, but the email address on them is no longer valid, and the company hasn’t been part of the New York Times Co. […]
I’ve been cleaning my office this month, and I recently came across a bottle of magentic poetry words I’d kind of forgotten I had. Do you have some of these? They’re actually a lot of fun. If you’re somehow unfamiliar with the concept, it’s a collection of random words on magnets. You grab some and […]
Since this week has been all about you and your favorite things, I thought it would make sense today to make something using your favorite color. Mine is green, and I decided I wanted to paint something. I happened to have this big blocky square canvas I bought somewhere on clearance a long time ago, […]
I like to have some kind of a plan when it comes to these challenges, but this one went a long way from what I had planned for today. Which is great, because I love it. Today I want you to start by thinking about some of your favorite books and authors, the words and […]