Last week Karen from PumpkinSunrise invited me to join a blog hop and answer some questions about creativity. So here it goes...
1. What have been the doings/makings/scribblings at your desk/making table this week?

The workspace was pretty much clearned off last week.....getting ready for a little jaunt to Cape Cod. The journal/s and camera, though, are always somewhere nearby. The tiny brown journal has gathered all kinds of knitting 'things'...patterns, quotes, drawings; when I'm hunting for my lost mojo, I often find it squeezed between those little pages.
On rare occasions, this space finds my sewing machine! The machine is overdue to make an appearance and after the last workspace 'activity' --- it's next appearance is imminent.

ALL my favorite project bags are filled with pending projects....

but, there are still a few 'homeless' ones kicking around. Time to sew.
2. Where are you currently finding your inspiration?
Some friends and I went to a little (20 vendor) market a couple weekends ago, and you couldn't help but be inspired and overly stimulated with all the eye-candy EVERYWHERE!!!! Spending time with friends, either in person or online, is always an inspiration; being the copy-cat/lemming that I am, I'm very likely to want to cast on anything I see on someone else's needles!!!
BUT, note the camera on the desk. I tend to see my knitting world in black, white, and shades of grey. I love these 'colors'!!! I gift a great number of things, and just because technicolor knitting is not my strength, I can't assume everyone has the same love affair with neutrals that I do. That's when I turn to all the colors in nature....my photographs help me put together colors all the time! (My teleidoscope is another great little indispensible color-assisting tool I use!!!!)
3. How important is being creative to you and how do you blend this with your work-life-family balance?
I'm never not knitting. Never. (This is only the slightest exaggeration.) Friends and acquaintances comment on how FAST I knit, but I keep telling them it's not the SPEED but the AMOUNT of knitting that produces so much. For example, at knit-night I KNIT. I don't stop. I knit and talk; I knit and eat. My friends knit. Then they talk. Then they eat. See the difference???
I have 'car knitting' and 'kitchen knitting' and 'purse knitting' ..... I'm compulsive. (I'm still trying to figure out how to blog and knit. Any ideas?)
So, it's sort of expected that I will be knitting most everywhere. Family and friends know this and they are OK with it. Grandkids chase me down with yarn in hand. 'Grandma, don't forget your knitting!' At this stage of life my children are grown, I'm mostly retired, and I'm very blessed that this crazy compulsion is now so much easier to feed than it used to be!!!
But I have a bit of a problem with the word 'creative'. I don't see myself as a creative person at all. Yes. I create (make) a lot (a whole lot) of things, but I design and truly c-r-e-a-t-e very few of them. I may substitute the yarn, insert a different pattern, change the sizing, and adjust the design....but the creative 'kernel' of the work is usually someone else's. For all those truly creative designers in the knit world, I am truly thankful!!
Thanks, Karen, for letting me share this little corner of my 'creative' world. I'd love to pass the blog hop on to two of my favorite creators, Wanda @reinventingmother who just recently began a cottage business with her project bags and Tien @autumngeisha who seems to be my personal shopper. I copycat her more than I would like to admit.
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