Make Something: Role Reversal
Today’s make something assignment was to do someone else’s job for awhile. I was to create something at that person’s workplace, or at least based on the experience of doing their […]
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Make Something: Flip Book Animation
Today’s make something prompt invited me to create a flip-book animation in the corner of a notebook. My animation is not nearly as long or impressive as one I discovered several decades […]
Make Something: Hat
Look at me: I’m the cat in the hat that is The Cat in the Hat! Eight-year-old Emma gets the image credit. She posed me on a stair, then stood […]
Make Something: Miniature
It’s 10:30 pm, and I am just now getting to today’s make something challenge. The order is to miniaturize something that would normally be much bigger. My concept was to […]
Make Something: Book, Not Paper
What material would you use to make a book without paper? My first two thoughts were fabric and plastic bags. I had ideas for each, individually, but wanted to push them […]
Make Something: Shelter
The assignment for today was to create a personal shelter. I find safety and warmth under the roof of an open book. Good books, great stories, and brilliant poetry have […]
Make Something: Rebus
A “rebus” is a visual puzzle that uses pictures and symbols in place of words or syllables in a phrase or story. When my son was an early reader, one of […]
Make Something: 10 Words
Thank God today’s make something prompt is in my wheelhouse. If the assignment were other than writing, I’m not sure what I would produce. For only the second time in […]
Make Something: Passing Through
Day 124: Make something seem like it is passing through a wall or other solid material that it normally wouldn’t or couldn’t. Conceptually, I knew exactly what I wanted to […]
Make Something: Map
Today’s instruction was to work with an old map or create something that looks like a map. Rather than a traditional, geographical map, I wanted to work with a map […]
Make Something: A Lot
Quantity over quality: work with a lot of something. So came today’s instruction from Noah Scalin’s book on making something every day and changing your life. (Have I mentioned that […]
Fresh Read
A new book! The title angles for attention. The spine longs to be cradled. The cover clamors to be lifted. The pages beg to be turned. The story craves the […]
It’s Simple
Day 287 prompt: Simple/Minimalism The simple life I’d like to lead Would give me ample time to read From written works of every sort: Books, blogs, labels, signs, reports, Newsy papers, […]
Farm girl
Day 9 prompt: on a farm (a nonnet) As Dad’s tractor hums in the cornfield Last born, too green to tend the crops, Sprawls out under maple shade Grazing on […]
