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Make Something: Role Reversal

February 13, 2014by bethnyland Leave a comment

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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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Flip Book Animation

December 3, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Hat

October 30, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Miniature

October 22, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Book, Not Paper

October 19, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Shelter

October 16, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Rebus

September 17, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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Being Creative, Na-Po-Wri-Mo

Make Something: 10 Words

September 5, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365, Poetry

Make Something: Passing Through

September 1, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Map

August 24, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: A Lot

June 18, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Fresh Read

April 28, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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Na-Po-Wri-Mo, Poetry

It’s Simple

October 13, 2012by bethnyland Leave a comment

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, […]

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Being Creative, Poetry

Farm girl

January 9, 2012by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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