Last week was Mom's birthday... today is my birthday. Episode 4 features a winning five-year-old version of "It's my party" with a special "scone" twists and much, much more to get you thinking and wake up your creative self... a self sometimes buried... a self sometimes unseen.

• Creative Currents: Birthday threads, my unfinished birthday project, and self-portraits young and old.
• Creative Mom Moment: "The Space Between"
• Creative Prompt: Self Portrait - Part 1, with a visual art focus (a written focus is up next week)... working from photos...
• Book Review: Spilling Open by Sabrina Ward Harrison
• Blog/Site Mentions: Draw Daily Blog ~ Self-Portrait Marathon rules ~ Self-Portrait Marathon Post (First Ten Days)
• Question of the Week: When you need to be inspired or have time to immerse yourself in a book, what do you read or flip through?
• Music
  
  
  
  • David Ippolito ~ This Hill is Filled with Children
  
  
  • Friction Bailey ~ Hope in My History
  
  
  • Jon Schmidt ~ Sacred Ground
  
  
  • Carrie Lennard You Make Me Sing
  
  
  • Shane Jackman ~ Moonsong
  
  
  • Shira Kammen ~ The Water is Wide
  
  
  • Intro Clip: Jim Fidler ~ All I Really Wanted
  
  
  
  

Episode 4's Featured Title and More by Sabrina Ward Harrison...

Posted by Amy at 02:03 AM | Permalink

Dedicated to my mom (because it's her birthday) and with an overarching focus on "collage," Episode 3 includes...

• Creative Currents: Color that "jumps" out at you (literally), and collage for everyone - from a family photo montage to palimpsests to a 2 year old's fascination with scissors and glue to a preschool story about a fallen tree to the wonderful world of Eric Carle.
• Creative Mom Moment: "Old Books; New Shelves"
• Creative Prompts: Collage...
• Book Review: Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond the Unexpected by Claudine Hellmuth
• Blog/Site Mentions: Blonde Strawberry: Collages by Tammy Wilder ~ Scrapiteria ~ Copyright for Collage Artists ~ Copyright Free Vintage Collage Images Gallery ~
• Question of the Week: What kind of a creative mom are you?
• Random Threads...: Quirky Nomads "8 Words a Day" episode ~ 2007 Calendar contest at Knitty.com ~ Dr. Seuss's In A People House ~ Dr. Seuss's My Many Colored Days




• Music
  
  
  
  • Beatrice Ericsson ~ As Long as the World is Turning
  
  
  • Jon Schmidt (Prelude [My Little Girl])
  
  
  • David Ippolito ~ One Word
  
  
  • Rob Costlow (Family)
  
  
  • Hungry Lucy ~ In the Circle
  
  
  • Intro Clip: Jim Fidler (All I Really Wanted)
  
  
  
  

Posted by Amy at 02:02 AM | Permalink

A productive, colorful, and invigorating week. A lot accomplished, a lot of things underway, and new ideas bursting around every corner. In this week's show...

• Creative Currents: A "colorful" week... Crocs, Starbucks art, the garden, Koigu, Charlotte's Web, Mrs. Beetons (by Cast-On's Brenda Dayne/published at Knitty), Knitty D and the City
• Creative Mom Moment: "The Fairies Around Us"
• Creative Prompts: A series of 4" x 4" squares (inspired by an article by artist Cathy Woo)
• Book Review: Living Color by Natalie Goldberg
• Blog Mentions: A Creative Journey - Karen Winters
• Podcast Mentions: Special thanks to Brenda Dayne (Cast-On)and Christine (PointySticks) for gratiously agreeing to mention the Creative Mom Podcast on their shows. And, a special call out to Dave and Gary at Chub Creek for playing the Chub-Creek-specific bumper in Episode 60 of Chub Creek!
• Question of the Week: How did color crash or drift into your consciousness this week... in big or little ways?
• Random Threads...: An Inconvenient Truth




• Music
  
  
  
  • Adrina Thorpe ~ Fly, Fly, Fly
  
  
  • Jon Schmidt (All of Me)
  
  
  • Chris Yale ~ Broken Angel
  
  
  • Amy MacClain (Every Song)
  
  
  • Intro Clip: Jim Fidler (All I Really Wanted)