This week Marge and I spent two days working on our book down at my family cottage. After she grabs her diet coke and I my decaf coffee we begin. We often start by sharing books/magazines/ideas we are currently being creatively inspired by. After both of us poke our nose through each others stuff we get down to “business”. This leads us to a point of planning and brainstorming ideas for both our book and classes we want to teach. This is a picture of Marge taking notes that will someday show up in her own words in our book. I also decided to do a quick sketch of her. I will post that later.
Marge the Writer
We like to take little “retreats” and walks and sometimes even pop into little shops to get our creative juices flowing. Marge likes to call these “adventures”. They really have become a way that we celebrate with each other our creative self.
Marge the photographer
Besides writing and drawing we both love taking pictures with our cell phones or cameras which is why we both got excited about the #5 X 5 Creative Challenge: five photos and five minutes of writing for 25 days in a row. Our buddy Pat O is up for the challenge as well. We gleaned this idea from an article we read in the Somerset Life magazine. THE SIMPLICITY OF SHOWING UP: The 5X5 Creative Challenge by Christina Rosalie. Check it out. We have both added her book to our reading list.
We also gave ourselves a group artist date and met up with some friends at the ArtWorks Gallery 6 X 6 fundraiser.
Rosann was quick to grab her favorite picture