What's the most creative thing you've done?

Moose antlers you say ....hmmmm...

You would think in Canada there would be Moose antlers laying around all over the place.. just trippin on them left and right. Haven't seen a Moose in a long time. But some have been spotted at my work. Might jave to take a walk out there.

Well I am gonna try it... nothing to loose right?

I am gonna have to look up lion paw seashells now just to see. Sounds interesting.

Speaking of moose - three different people I know here went moose hunting the EXACT same days... and none of them got a moose. I was really hoping I'd finally get to try moose-meat!

Also, Anika - do you have photographs of the art that decomposed? If you lived somewhere really metropolitan... umm.... well in Canada it's not like we have too much of that.... but any of the big cities... you could probably make a big stir with a macabre art exhibit. It sounds exactly like the sort of thing that would take place during Nuit Blanche in Toronto! I think your art actually sounds fascinating... but then, I sorta like the grotesque. But it's definitely an art movement so you are not alone!

I made myself a voodoo doll once. Made up my own pattern for him too. He was actually quite adorable and I called him.. I think I called him Victor. His pins were glued inside him. He was of the "so ugly it's cute" variety.

I painted a wall mural.

I am NOT creative. I'm very left brained and have done accounting most of my life. But from 1984 - 1987 I worked for a company that had a picture framing gallery attached to the main building. When I had down time (and I had lots of that) I went over to the gallery and I learned to help people select mats and frames for their art or needlepoint or whatever they wanted to frame. I also learned how to assemble the framing and to to stretch needlepoint/cross stitch. I learned SO much about art - I loved it.

Talking about moose, one of the art projects that people used to bring in to be framed was moose hair tufting. It's a beautiful craft done by the indigenous (native Indian) people here in Canada (more in the northern parts than down south here where I live). They make art from dyed moose hair. Google it - there are hundreds of photos of the art online.

I've never tripped over antlers. And the only time I ever ate moose meat was when I went to Sweden in 1976. Sweden is crawling with moose - they're everywhere, or were 40 years ago.

OH! I decided really spur of the moment to abandon my students on a desert island as a group-work experiment/scenario.

I made things up as it went, and gave them NO guidance but would tell them how far they got and how successful they were with their methds of doing things.

I think it was a total wipe-out. haha. They had such a great time that we did a few more scenarios like that as group-work, and they figured out how to work together a whole lot better by the end of it! hahaha.

This past summer I was hypo and got way into making my own beauty products. I ordered a ton of nonsense off a hippie website, and had made everything from chapstick, shampoo, to deodorant. Complete with decorative painted glass containers.

The deodorant was NOT effective, btw.

I still use the facewash and chapstick, but everything else was ridic. lol.

I wrote a book about my pets and other animals, published it online and bought copies to give to all of my relatives and friends, rather than letting them buy it themselves! I spent a lot of money to do this. What was I thinking????
It took me five years to do, but I wrote a book on wild horse activism and did not publish it. At least not yet. I would have to redo it to publish it. I may or may not do that. After I finished, had all of my "support people" disappear, however I kicked two of the negative ones out of the project before I finished and I'm glad I did. Never do a book that depends on other people whom you don't know if you can trust. I trusted the wrong people! I also wrote a book, along with my daughter, about my family's 50 year business in CA - for family members to buy and it was wonderful. My first published book was an original resource directory for my state's Dept. of Health. It was good and many agencies, clinics and individuals got copies of it at no cost. I write poetry prose to express my feelings. I'm proud of all of these but they were not REAL books as I see it, not published by a REAL publisher; they were published " in a small way," I feel.
I am now considering a Bipolar Blog but not so sure I can do it. I write in a journal every month to keep track of where I am and how I'm feeling,sometimes daily. Very depressing!

I want to make art more than anything, but I cannot do it right now, am in a depressive condition, bad but not suicidal (Lamictal is being increased).

I keep a bipolar blog. I love it. Of course, I'm pretty wordy, so....