Good morning on this cool, wet day!

I guess creating things has been a hobby of mine since childhood. The first hobby I remember doing was macrame plant hangers. I also started learning the guitar around the same time. So I spent tons of alone time in my room, yet I always kept busy!

After that, I started drawing trees with charcoal. My dad is the one who bought me a book on how to draw trees, but I always drew dead ones because I loved practicing the shadows.

My brother and I often colored together in one room, listening to the radio and laying on the floor, coloring wildlife or whatever our particular coloring books had to offer. I’ve finally moved on to painting as an adult.

I learned to make jewelry trying to get an at-home job, but didn’t pass their test, so I kept making it on my own for gifts and myself. I’ve tried to sell it in boutiques, antique shops, and online, but competition is fierce and I was wanting more than cheap jewelry stores make. Now my eyes and hands aren’t the best, but I can still whip up a quick pair of earrings and bracelets.

As an adult, I often crochet, but I’m not great because I have a hard time counting stitches. I lose concentration trying to do two things at once and lose count. I spend more time ripping out than actually creating the project. It’s so hard to say create when talking about creating! I still love to do all those artistic things I mentioned and more, but I find I have to really be in the mood.

I also love to create poems and stories! 😉

Limericks are one of my favorite form of poetry, but I like an occasional haiku. Non rhyming poems are not my forte’, I tend to write the sing-song type.

Fiction is harder for me than writing from life experience. Yet I practice all the time, with challenges like Justin Deming’s on his Substack called On the Hudson. Someday, I dream of writing a book!

I started a new creative project yesterday when I was seated at the dinette in the bus, but I can only work n it when Dave isn’t sitting there-due to limited space. It’s a surprise for Anne, so I shan’t spill the beans here. 😉 I do hope I finish it in time!