Make Something: Hardware
“Work only with items that would be found in a hardware store today.” I love hardware stores. Really, what can’t you get there? Years ago, when I was working my […]
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Make Something: Rolling
The make something prompt today recommended that I “reinvent the wheel” by making something that would roll downhill. I may have overthought this. Rolling made me think of things that […]
Make Something: Far
“Make something that you can only see properly from far away or at a great height.” After yesterday’s poem about the winter landscape, I guess maybe I’m fixated on the […]
Make Something: Plant Shapes
“Create something based on the shapes found in a plant in your immediate vicinity.” I don’t keep house plants. To do so would be cruel, as I am unable to […]
Make Something: Sticky Notes
This is yet another one of those days when I bucked my make something theme of “words.” Last time this was the case, my sister pointed out that words only exist between […]
Make Something: Edited Advertisement
“Transform a piece of advertising so that it has a new message.” I knew exactly what I wanted to do with this prompt, yet found it harder than expected to […]
Make Something: Chimes
“You are the music while the music lasts.” These words from T.S. Eliot remind me how essential and important it is that we all find expression for our ideas and […]
Make Something: Reptile-Inspired
Alligators, lizards, crocodiles and snakes— all dry, scaly creatures that give me the shakes. Their blood runs so cool they need warmth from the sun. They slither flat-bellied or use […]
Make Something: Food Packaging
“Work only with, or be inspired by, boxes or bags from packaged food products today.” In a household with two full-time working parents, six kids, three cats, and a lizard, […]
Make Something: Random Date in History
“Pick a random date in history (date, month, year), research what happened that day, and make something inspired by the events.” That’s the prompt from Noah Scalin for Day 301 […]
Make Something: Touch
as night bends to day lone bodies shift and stretch ’til his hand brushes hers
Make Something: Silver
Silver stuff on a silver surface. That was today’s make something challenge. I put myself up against several obstacles, thereby creating a lackluster result. First, I challenged myself to complete the making […]
Make Something: Reverse
Ideally a book would have no order, and the reader would have to discover his own. Mark Twain
Make Something: Glass
Today’s make something suggestion was to work on glass. What a wonderful opportunity to combine some of my favorite things: rhyming, Sharpies, and wine! This was one of the few […]
Make Something: Unexpected Location
The “make something” prompt for day 296 of 365: “Go someplace where you would normally never do something creative and work there today.” After nearly 300 days of making things, […]
Beth Nyland 