Christmas 2009

I always complain that if it weren’t for my immigrant parents I would have gone to OCAD and did something artsy (In hindsight, I think if I had pushed for a it a bit more, my dad would have been on my side. He’s a pretty creative dude). But that’s no way to live. Sometimes I have a buildup of creative juices all waiting to be unleashed. When I was younger the creativity manifested itself in all sorts of ways (e.g., one year I kept a journal of poems I wrote about every day normal things.). More recently, I’ve noticed I like producing things with my hands. I really think the reason I picked up knitting in high school, way before it was hip to knit, was so I could produce something creative with my hands. I feel like this year is the year of creativity. I hope to produce / or start at least some thing creative per week or more realistically per month. To start off with a bang, I decided to make a few hand-made Christmas cards for a few of my friends. Ram was nice enough to post them on-line for me. (They’re not professional, but they are all quite unique and I hope meaningful for the people they were made for.)
In other news: I’m working on a project with my brother that will probably take a good part of this year. But hope to have snippets of it on here sometime in the next few days.
NTS: I need to do a creative shimoticon.

I wrote this on 3 January 10 when I was feeling .

Comment

  1. Styx says,

    You do realize that if you went to OCAD, you most likely would never have met Ram, right?

  2. Fran says,

    Hiya Shima. Wonder what you will be creating monthly. I am curious. I used to be creative too but then it just vanished. I did the Card thing and the Short Story Writing thing. Sort of have me thinking of starting up again.

  3. gmania says,

    A new entry! You blog less than I do. I wish I was creative. I find after work, I have no desire to do anything remotely creative, instead, I just waste hours looking at hot Korean chicks on the Internet… A sad life.

  4. brenda says,

    hooray for creativity! it will keep you happy. the card with the tree is lovely. knit a sweater with me, i’ll photocopy the pattern and mail it to you.

    i was feeling random artsy a few weeks ago and tried to log into my blog but forgot the password.

    love!

 
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