As in previous years, I thought I’d put together a blog post of twelve photos pulled from my archive on Flickr, one for each month of the year. I was pleasantly surprised to discover I had a variety of photos to choose from even though I haven’t been uploading much to flickr.
The selection is a good mix of paper art and nature photos.
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
All the best in 2014. May it be a creative year for all.
I fell off the blogging bandwagon a few weeks back when I came down with the flu. It wiped me out for two weeks and I still wasn’t feeling myself over Christmas. I’ve been pretty consistent about blogging regularly for the past few years, so it bothers me a bit I won’t be meeting my monthly goal of eight posts. Ah well, it can’t be helped.
Boris and I spent last week on Bowen Island for Christmas with his family. I went out walking every day and took many photos of the peaceful scenes.
I hope your Christmas was very merry.
In preparation for my Creative Mornings talk I felt it was important to include examples of my making so it wasn’t all talk.
I used two time lapse videos, one shot and edited by Lee and Sachi LeFever of me making their yarn tree. The second video I did myself using iTimelapse on Boris’ iPhone 5.
This is about an hour of work. Every time I watch this I am amazed I don’t cut my fingers more often….
Tomorrow morning I take the stage at SFU Woodwards and present myself to the world at Creative Mornings. I’ve known about this talk for months, so I’ve had plenty of time to acclimatize to the idea of talking in front of a large audience. Public speaking has always been a huge fear of mine, and normally I avoid it even in small ways.
By going through the process of developing this talk I have challenging a long held fear. Not to say my anxiety has completely gone away, but it feels manageable now rather than completely overwhelming. I’m extremely grateful this opportunity came my way, and also that I had the sense not to refuse it.
The whole experience has me wondering what other fears I should face…
Watch this teaser video about my talk: