Jan 11 2010
J-E-L-L-O…sing it!!
There are two things I LOVE! Ok, ok there are a zillion things I love but today I’d like to share two special ones. I love that it is possible to be creative in everything we do just about as much as I love being a kid. I think we forget as we get older that we can be creative in every area of our lives. Do you know how often I hear people say, “No, I don’t have a creative bone in my body!” LIES…all LIES! (Insert evil laugh here). I bet if I were to sit and talk with those “non-creative folk” about their childhood we’d stumble upon the time they made a potholder or a drawing for their Mom or another special someone. I’d learn that Mom or whoever received that heartfelt gift treasured it and how that person, the one who isn’t the slightest bit creative, believed that was the best thing they’d ever made. For a fleeting moment, I’d watch a light shine in their eyes and bask in the small, warm smile they’d wear as they remembered that moment of giving the creative, homemade gift before they’d travel back to the present where they would almost certainly bury their creative beauty again.
As we age there’s a distinct part of us that actually loses wisdom like a tire losing air. And do you know why? Because somewhere along the way someone told us we HAD to color in the lines and that the sky is blue and not fuchsia and we mistakenly believed them. We said to ourselves, “Oh that’s the way everyone else is doing it so it must be right,” and right then and there we began to pack away that essential stuff that makes us unique. We packed away our purple clouds and trees with rainbow trunks and believed that our “art’ didn’t fit with what was “expected.” Over time the creative bones stopped rattling inside the trunk on the highest shelf in our inner closet and we forgot they were even there.
We need to pop open that dusty trunk and enjoy our “art”. Maybe it’s in the way we bake goodies or the way we decorate our homes. Maybe it’s in the way we dress ourselves or the simple way our suggestions add a spark to work projects. Whatever it is we all have it. So, in honor of it, I went back to childhood and pulled out a dish I used to love to eat – Jello! Go ahead, sing the tune right now!! Until this weekend, I had never made Jello for my daughter so I grabbed some at the store, brought it home and made it with her. She loved the way the powder turned into liquid and then the way it froze. But I think her most favorite part was the “Wiggle Dance” we did around the kitchen whenever we would take it out to eat it. That’s the kid part I love. It’s so much more fun to be a kid and dance around and enjoy moments then it is to be serious, isn’t it?
Today I invite you to bring something from your childhood back to life. I invite you to be creative, laugh, dance, sing – do whatever makes you feel like a kid and then share. I’d LOVE to hear about everything from your favorite childhood dessert to what makes you feel like a kid.
Peace, love and childhood fun to you all!
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I am not very creative, BUT I have learned since being a class mom for 2 years that I can search the internet, find something that is creative and replicate it and my son now thinks I am the most creative mom and always nominates me to do “projects” at school! I have done anything from handprint projects to paper weaving to menorah making!! And I love it and enjoy going monthly and having to think about what new project I will start. And in my old age I have become a lego building freak, my latest star wars project with my son is 683 pieces and as stressed out as I get making them it is in some way relaxing to me at the same time!! Children can make us do the things we never thought we will. My son is like me more on the straight and narrow then the creative, but I never let him give up on trying. My daughter is a creative monster, with ideas and craft projects all day long! And she and I are able to dance and sing to Alvin and the Chipmunks like when I was little and would dance with my sister! Nothing is better then your 3 yr old singing “All the Single Ladies” and her other favorite is “So What”. You made me laugh today, Thank you! Donna
Patricia – LOL….ok so tell me what’s the greatest, handmade thing you have ever made????????
Donna – I LOVE this….I totally know that “what creative project can I come up with next?” and it’s awesome….I ALSO have a little one who is obsessed with “All the Single Ladies” I could not stop laughing when I read that …we just need a third little girl and we could make a 2-3 year old music video LOL!!!! Children do make you do the things we never thought we would – it’s awesome….hey did you know that to work at lego you have to be able to make a ball out of legos?? I’m obsessed with wanting to try to make it LOL
We can make millions off of that video if we could get it together!!! I did not know that lego fact, somehow I can’t see them enforcing that as I have spoken to these people and they are sometimes not so helpful!
Donna I’m IN!!! We need to find that third LOL….I love that you have spoken to the Lego people – the Lego folks it all sounds so foreign – why did you speak to them??
Natasha–I hadn’t visited your blog in many weeks. So glad to be back here now and catching up with your posts–they are so full of life and love that they lift me up.
Just gotta ask Donna how she knows her latest lego project is 683 pieces–did she count every one???????? (oh wait . . I think I remember that the number of pieces is written on the box . . .–I was thinking more of the concoctions my mom would challenge my son to build. She called them “Thingamabobs”–we weren’t allowed to limit our inspiration by labeling too early. Her only requirement was that we use ALL the lego pieces available, which was around 2, 8897,345, give or take a few hiding in the carpet waiting to pierce your foot. THAT’S why I wondered at first ab out Donna counting the pieces.)
Love to you Natasha, and heartdeep thanks for all the love you share and inspire in others.
Maureen – it’s so great to see you…you are sooo funny yes I think the number is on the box…I’m still wondering what it’s like to call the Lego folks…LOL…I can’t even handle how many pieces you mentioned!!! Loved the non-labeling though…hehehehe hugs to you inspirational Maureen :O
best handmade thing: well I knit a sweater for my daughter once…and it actually fit…for a month or two when she was about 9 months old
I do like making fun cakes, but I have to follow a pattern (same goes for knitting). It’s really not creative, it’s still just following directions. Turns out I’m a good rule follower, but not so much a make it up as you go along type
I am with Patricia and Donna, BUT, I do copy well and can do creative things with the proper instructions! I was pretty proud of myself when I built a decent looking Lego building the other day. Then, yesterday, I came down and my husband had built this amazing airplane thingy that I NEVER would have even dreamed these silly pieces could make and which made my “building” look like an unsophisticated hovel. Ugh…looks like I will have to be hitting the internet like Donna before James starts to realize how lame I am
Patricia and Claire – I want to see a picture of that sweater do you have one? Do you still have it? That’s awesome and it takes skill…you have to pick the colors right?? Whether you are following instructions or not, you are creating and the more you do it the more you will see your own ideas emerge …. so Patricia the more you make cakes the more you will put your style, your mark on it and Claire the more lego things you build the more creative you will find your designs…and your son will think you are cool no matter what!!
Jello, creativity and childhood – wow what a combination! I just love the “site” of you and your sweet daughter dancing around the table doing the “wiggle dance”! I used to love Jello! My fav childhood desert – my grandmother’s blackberry pie of course!!! Play Dough – I loved loved Play dough – but – it’s amazing I’m even creative at all – I wasn’t supposed to mix the colors so I would hide in the closet and make blue cookies and pink cookie and then stack them – that’s the closest I came to mixing them! It is my rebel that became creative – just because of that I think!!!
My best creation – ok this is funny – my children – because now I have a very creative grandson who I can play with!!!!! lolololo and he makes some awesome creations with legos – and we have made some awesome creations together. A ball out of legos huh? mmm we’ll have to see if we can pull that one off – I keep encouraging my son to try to get a job with them! He’s almost 24 and still loves playing with them. Art wise – it’s hard to say what my best creation is – maybe it’s still waiting to happen!
Lisian – congrats again on the birth of your granddaughter YAY!!! yes my daughter and I dancing around is a sight that would make you pee laughing for sure!!Blackberry pie sounds heavenly right about now…do you make it now? I LOVE that it’s the rebel in you that made the creative come out WOOOHOOO!! Love that you said your kids…I think that’s awesome…if you make that lego ball you have to send a photo. I like the idea of your best creation being something that’s yet to happen – that’s not only hopeful it’s exciting!!!!
Sorry I am replying so late but- I had to ask the lego people about 2 things, what separate pieces they had to complete some missing things and also To ask if they had any more star wars figurines. Now the first question answered was not so helpful but the second man was very informative in telling me that even though they could not officially sell the characters seperate from the kit he said to me “In true lego fashion the magnets can disconnect” So I was able to buy the magnets and we disconnected them to have new characters to play with. If Claire reads this, I once took a picture of the very first LIncoln Log farm and corral I created and e-mailed it to Patrick! Keep trying even following directions the kids love it! Donna
Donna – this s good lego info!!! I’m loving this LOL…and I hope Claire reads that too..that might be one of the greatest things I’ve ever read….I want to see that picture I think you need to email it and Claire I need a photo of your building!!
I have to admit it I haven’t made a blackberry pie – can’t get fresh ones around here so I cheat and buy this yummy Razzleberry pie! I asked my grandson if he could make a ball with legos and he said “yeah, it’s easy!!” hehehe maybe we’ll try one today and see if it really is!
Lisian – Razzleberry is one of those great words…I love saying that and now I want one!! Ok if you guys make a lego ball you TOTALLY have to send it some photos!!!