Pictures. Help. Me.
I take a lot of pictures. I take most of them with my phone.
I take pictures of my family. I take pictures of happenings at work.
I take pictures of funny, silly, trivial things.
I take a lot of pictures. Read more
Posts from the ‘creativity’ Category
Jul 8
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Mar 1
An open letter to my cranky laptop.
Dear my MacBookPro,
I think you know how I feel about you. I take you almost everywhere, and I entrust you with almost everything. You are the perfect assistant, offering just the right tool for the task almost all the time. Opening a lovely road of blank canvas on which to write nearly every time I have an idea.But you’ve been staring at me for the better part of two days now, completely unhelpful as I contemplate a rather daunting project. I’ve sat in my favorite writing spot, I’ve gathered my favorite props, and still… from you… nothing. Stilted, hesitant, uninspiring nothingness.
Clearly this is all your doing. Cranky McSassipants.
So I’m firing you from this project. I’ve gone old school. A Pentel RSVP fine point pen and yellow legal pad are now my weapons of choice and guess what? The ideas and words are flowing with the greatest of ease. I even thought about note cards. When the initial crunch phase of this is over, I’m pretty sure we’ll forgive each other and return to our ninja-like symbiotic state. But for now, I thank you for being a functional paperweight and encourage you to think about what you’ve done.Sincerely,
Me
worship leadership: engage and create.
Music tends to be the centerpiece of what we do when we design worship services. And songs tend to have shelf-lives. So finding new music becomes, you know, a ‘thing’.
(On the topic of ‘shelf-lives’ … we’re probably not still singing all of the hymns from the 1800′s. Just a thought.) Read more
Sep 28
make your own wreath. minimal skill required.
I love wreaths. I love them. But I can’t afford the ones that I really love. And I don’t like the ones I can afford. So if you’re like me and you’re not particularly crafty, just picky and… frugal, there’s a super easy solution.
Take a little trip to a nearby craft store to pick up an inexpensive, basic, vine wreath.
Walk through the floral department and select the kinds of foliage or flowers you want to use. I tend to like simple, sparse designs made of all the same foliage. For my new autumn wreath, I chose 3 varied shades of the same small flower.
I’m making a wreath for my front door, which gets hit by sun, and wind, and occasionally rain. So I have to avoid any adornments (berries, etc) that are made out of styrofoam. Because ohhh the carnage.
Use wire clippers to cut apart the stems so that you have many different pieces to use. Begin sliding the stems/flowers into the wreath, alternating colors & types as you’d like, until the wreath is full. And ba-da-bing… you’re done!
Happy fall!
Aug 24
‘Stories’… our first original art show.
This summer we gathered together, for the first time, a group of artists from our church. We gathered to talk generally about art in the church and specifically about launching our first gallery show of original art pieces by FirstMBChurch artists.
The show: ‘Stories’
The theme: any of the ten Bible stories featured in the ‘LIFE: Ten Stories’ sermon series beginning Aug 1 (same series referenced in this post)
The medium: any visual art piece that can be displayed on the gallery walls in our lobby
Our artists came through. Here are the results. My heart is full.
