Wrapping up My Creative Passions

In 2013, I resolve ... to take time for my Other Creative Passions!

I love to write romance. Love it, love it, love it. But as a creative person, I also have other loves.

And I do believe that we should use the talents God gave us, and not hide them under a bushel.

Sketching - put a piece of pastel (oil chalk) in my hand, or even a #2 pencil, and I'm going to doodle. Whether just a curly design with a flower in the center, or the head of the person sitting next to me, something is going to appear on my paper.
And it's so easy. I could do it every day, or at least one or two days a week.

Quilting - What is it about taking jewel toned bits of fabric, and sewing them together in designs? Stars are my favorite, and there are an infinite number of possibilities. I love to make quilts of all sizes. Even entered one in the Coeur d'Alene fair several years ago and won a ribbon--woot!
I've been neglecting this craft for a while, so I'll start small. At a Christmas art sale at the small but jewel-like Holter Art Museum and Gallery here in Helena, MT, I saw free-form quilted potholders. Each one was a small work of art, and the creator was selling her big wall quilts for thousands, so she's good.
I may not approach her artistry, but I'm going to try my hand at a little art quilting. I'll let you know if it works, lol!

There are other creative arts I enjoy, but with all the writing I have planned for 2013, I think these two will keep me busy.

How about you? What creative arts do you love? 

Maybe you just love to wander through galleries and museums. Is it time to take time for art in your life?

And don't forget to stop by the other Resolution Tour blogs, and see how my friends are going to handle their New Year Resolutions.

best,

Cathryn Cade

... red hot romance!
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THE RESOLUTION TOUR - January 1 - 9, 2013

Maggie Jaimeson - Take a Vacation

Jessa Slade - Get Organized

Paty Jager - Volunteerism

Linda Mercury - Creating a Literary (or Creative) Life

Jenna Bayley-Burke - Eat Healthier

Cassiel Knight - No More Procrastination

Cathryn Cade - Take Time for those OTHER Creative Passions

Susan Lute - Reduce Stress: Find and Follow Your Bliss

Jamie Brazil - Shrink My Closet

Su Lute's Other Creative Passions

Happy New Year!
Are you ready to rock?

I'm over @ 

Author Cassiel Knight's Blog today. 

Join me to talk about Beating Procrastination where it lives ... in fear.

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Welcome, Su Lute, author of Dragon's Thief

Su, what are your thoughts on my New Year’s resolution to Take Time for Other Creative Passions?

Resolve 2013: Photography And Other Creative Passions

Susan Lute

Dragon's Thief

Here's something no one knows about me. When I was a young married woman – we won't say how young - the Mr. used to haul me around perched on his shoulders. I know, but I was very tiny then. Anyway, we'd go all over talking about my dream to become a photographer. Back then it wasn't as easy as it is today. There were darkrooms and negatives and big clunky cameras. Now that I think about it , my parents gave me my first box camera when I was eleven. I still have the pictures I took with it and maybe the camera itself tucked away safe.

Jamie Brazil's Other Creative Passions

Happy New Year! 

Today author Jamie Brazil joins us 

to dish about the other creative passion that she always makes time for...

Author Jamie Brazil 

Title: A Stitch in Time…

Not many people know this about me, but I sew.  I love sewing.  Probably because it has to do with clothes.  Another love of mine. 

Like many women, my mother taught me to sew.  Sewing, it seems to me, is part of the whole (old school) Slavic-female culture.  Not sewing is not an option.  My mother’s mother, Baba, taught her to sew.  There’s sewing history here.  I own, and sometimes wear, a 1960s flannel shirt my Baba made for my Didi (Grandfather).  Somewhere in my mother’s cedar chest is Baba’s silk wedding gown.  Home-sewn in 1916.

Is it only tradition?  No.

Creative Passions with Maggie Jaimeson

Happy New Year! 

We are rocking 2013 on The Resolutions Tour!

Join my friend Maggie Jaimeson as she tells us how she'll be ...Taking Time for Those OTHER Creative Passions

Meanwhile, I'm over @ Linda Mercury's Blog  talking about how I Live the Literary Life, and you can too!
 

'Diversity Provokes Serendipity'

Maggie Jaimeson

HEALING NOTES

Creative people sometimes have a hard time diversifying their passions. For many years, my novel writing was my ONLY Creative Passion. 
 

Because I worked full-time in another profession, I felt I only had time for one creative endeavor. I gave up singing in the choir. I gave up sewing (I used to make my own clothes). I gave up acting—even in small community theater.
 

It’s true that my time was extremely limited. However, I formed a habit of not doing anything else in order to focus my outside time on writing. 
 

Jessa Slade's Other Creative Passion

Happy New Year!

Are you ready to rock 2013?

I'm over @ Author Paty Jager's Blog today. Join me to talk about Volunteerism, Wherever We Are.

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Welcome, Jessa Slade, author of A Little Night Muse

What are your thoughts on my New Year’s resolution to Take Time for Other Creative Passions?


Jessa Slade

The Darkest Night (A Marked Souls Christmas novella) 

Jessa says, "Writing is my first and deepest creative passion. I’ve given up a lot in order to focus on that love. I don’t paint or draw anymore. I do very little photography. I wish I could dance more. The bittersweet reality is, I don’t have enough hours in my life to do all the things I would love to do.

Paty Jager's Other Creative Passion

Happy New Year!

Are you ready to rock 2013?

I'm over @ Author Jessa Slade's Blog today. Join me, and help her Get Organized!

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Welcome, Paty Jager, author of Secrets of a Mayan Moon 

What are your thoughts on my New Year’s resolution to Take Time for Other Creative Passions?
 

 

Paty Jager
Secrets of a Mayan Moon

Paty says, "Bold Colors Spark my Creativity.

Over the years I’ve had many creative passions. Several of them I can no longer do, thanks to all the typing I do for writing.  Cake decorating and crocheting  were a couple that I enjoyed. But my wrists can’t take the extra stress beyond my typing. 

Linda Mercury's Other Creative Passion

Happy New Year! 

We are rocking 2013 with 
The Resolutions Tour!

Today, I'm over @
Maggie Jaimeson's Blog
Helping her Take a Vacation...on a Budget!


Join author Linda Mercury as she dishes about My Resolution. 

Linda says; "How does one make time for those important “Other” Creative Passions? If you are a writer, you might also love watercolors or flower arranging or the dark magics of the fiber arts.