Make Something: Balloons
What fun to play with balloons! After work this evening, I dug through the kids’ toys and found a hand pump and few small balloons. And as soon as I […]
Make Something: Monumental
Noah Scalin’s challenge for me, on this 279th day of making things, was this: Be monumental. Make a monument to a mundane event, place, or person. Thinking back on my […]
Make Something: Spam
Today’s make something assignment was to draw inspiration from the spam email in my inbox. I have no shortage of that. I get dozens of junk messages in my email […]
Make Something: Wannabe
Today’s make something prompt is this: If you could do or be anything in the world, what would it be? Make something as if you were actually doing or being […]
Make Something: Location
Today I spun a globe and selected a random location with my finger … … landing in India, on Kolkata, West Bengal. From there, my mission was to research and […]
Make Something: Pocket Change
Today’s project called for pocket change. I don’t keep change in my pocket, or even in my purse. Somehow a bowlful of change has accumulated next to my bathroom sink, […]
Make Something: Back to the Future
For today, Noah Scalin suggested that I “make something that seems like it has come back from the future.” My daughter made this easy. Mixed in with the usual agenda […]
Make Something: Can
Responding to the make something suggestion to “work with, or be inspired by, a tin can or soda can,” I thought of a quote by baseball great Dizzy Dean. Why […]
Make Something: Hands
Today’s prompt was to make something inspired by a hand. Jim took a photo of my hands; then I played with words and photo effects to create this image: While I tinkered, […]
Make Something: Door
“Add a door where one wouldn’t normally exist. Extra credit: Make it functional.” This now hangs right inside my office door, on a wall where a real door would be […]
Make Something: Ice Cubes
Today’s make something prompt seemed simple: work with ice cubes. As we sat down to dinner with friends at a little Italian restaurant, I was thrilled to see cubes in […]
Make Something: Pie Chart
Today’s make something assignment is to make a business graphic in an unexpected way. What a great opportunity to examine my writing process …
Make Something: Sandy
“Use sand as your medium or inspiration today.” What a great excuse for haiku … about playing a board game with one of those anxiety-producing timers. fast and narrow sand rains […]
Make Something: Recreated Art
Today’s assignment is to “recreate a famous work of art using the material and technique of your choice.” Using some of my favorite things—a child, writing materials, my iPhone, and […]
Make Something: Cardboard
Challenged to make something from corrugated cardboard or cardboard boxes, I had to “think outside the box.” Cliché, I know. But so fitting. How long ’til the kids notice this […]
Beth Nyland 