Make Something: Kit
For today’s make something assignment, I was to buy a kit, toss the instructions, do something unexpected with the remaining contents, and brace myself for whatever came next. Finding a […]
Make Something: Bread
I suppose I could have made something with bread today … carved letters into burnt toast, written a jelly word on a biscuit. But the moment I saw the words […]
Make Something: Red
scrapes of red sully marked-up draft ’til revisions heal text with edits Today, in response to the make something challenge to work with red, I wrote the red haiku above. A teacher […]
Make Something: Paint Swatch Samples
Make something took me to the hardware store today, to snag a few paint swatch samples so I could make something new. Short on time, I needed a rapid project. […]
Make Something: Leftovers
“Make a facial expression on your plate from the leftovers of a meal.” School starts the day after tomorrow. In these last few days of summer, the kids and I […]
Make Something: Spill
Today’s make something assignment gave me permission to make a mess. Specifically, I was to spill a liquid, then work with it. So I poured some heavy cream on our […]
Make Something: Dirt
Go outside and make something in or with the first patch of dirt you find. I didn’t have to go far. At the edge of our driveway, the ground around […]
Make Something: Steam
I nearly passed on today’s make something assignment. Not because it wasn’t interesting, but because my day veered more toward reacting and cleaning things up than innovating and making things […]
Make Something: Ball
No one crumples their paper any more. I’m glad. I care about trees. So I’m happy that my worst days as a writer don’t mean peril for a forest. At […]
Make Something: Thrift Shop
The make something project sent me to a thrift shop today. The instruction: buy something to work with … and maybe even give the result back to the shop after […]
Make Something: Impossible
When Noah Scalin wrote today’s prompt—make something impossible—he clearly had in mind something visual: “Can you trick the eyes into believing they’re seeing something that they’re not?” I thought of […]
Make Something: Regress
Regress. Today, the make something instruction was to work as if I were a young child, using materials accessible to a little one, maybe even with the skills a youngster […]
Make Something: Napkin
Today’s make something task was to create with the napkin I used at a meal … with extra credit for leaving it behind for someone else to discover. Thanks to […]
Make Something: Palindrome
Write a palindrome. Bonus: Illustrate it! Today is our last day of restful vacation in the Columbia River Gorge (tomorrow we travel home). As we moved from one lovely site […]
Make Something: Inspired by a Book
“Flip to a random page in a book at hand and make something inspired by the first sentence you read.” I landed in the perfect place to complete today’s make […]
Beth Nyland 