April showers bring mud puddles, rainbows and May flowers! I love Spring rain showers.
The low rumbles of thunder, the flashes of lightening and the rush of wild wind as the storms race across the country side. I love the sound of the Spring Creepers chirp celebrating the arrival of rain and the emergence of the box turtles when the rain is gone.
I enjoy watching the water collect into puddles and waiting for the arrival of the birds. Rushing to be the first to splash and bathe in the Spring rains as if in celebration that winter is over and warm sunny days are just around the corner. However, more than anything else, is the excitement of jumping and splashing in the first mud puddles of Spring. Mud splattered and soaking wet surrounded by cheers and joyful laughter. Spring has finally come to my garden.
Soon, many hours of my days will be spent painting En Plein Air, between the flowerbeds or resting in the shade of the apple trees, as an excuse to avoid weeding or mowing. Spring! I'm so looking forward to feeling the mud squishing between my toes.
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© 2017 Carol Lane Fleming
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Thursday, March 2, 2017
A Creative Life
Do you have visions of creative individuals walking around covered in paint? There truly is more to a Creative Life than the appearance of art supplies. Briefly, a Creative Life is filled with adventures, explorations and the journey into the unknown. Are you Creative?
How do you know or identify if someone is Creative? Are there visible signs of Creativity?
Take a closer look at Creativity. Creativity is the ability to think "Out of the Box", to be willing to explore options and opportunities even if they might not work. Creativity is taking an idea expanding on what is before you and exploring the unknown while asking "What If". Most often, Creativity is birthed from daydreams or inspired by the works or needs of others. Creative individuals are problem solvers, innovators, and sometimes artists.
Ask the "What If" questions, think "Out of the Box" explore all of the possibilities.
March forward into 2017 curious, and exploring your wildest dreams. You are Creative!
https://whatboxacreativelife.blogspot.com/
#HiddenInYourheART
© 2017 Carol Lane Fleming
How do you know or identify if someone is Creative? Are there visible signs of Creativity?
Take a closer look at Creativity. Creativity is the ability to think "Out of the Box", to be willing to explore options and opportunities even if they might not work. Creativity is taking an idea expanding on what is before you and exploring the unknown while asking "What If". Most often, Creativity is birthed from daydreams or inspired by the works or needs of others. Creative individuals are problem solvers, innovators, and sometimes artists.
Ask the "What If" questions, think "Out of the Box" explore all of the possibilities.
March forward into 2017 curious, and exploring your wildest dreams. You are Creative!
https://whatboxacreativelife.blogspot.com/
#HiddenInYourheART
© 2017 Carol Lane Fleming
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Time is Racing!
February is already here just when I was getting used to January. Are you like me, finding several items leftover from your January to-do list?
February is the shortest month, therefore I have decided a change is needed in the area of time management. I am setting dedicated time for writing each morning, followed by household chores, [not really, just throwing in a load of laundry, preparing dinner = popping meal into slow cooker and feeding cats] and then for the Creative Adventure of the day...which could be painting, quilting, drawing, baking, gardening, more writing or....Who knows where the Creative Adventure will lead.
And for as long as needed, tackling 1 January left-over project a day until January's to-do list is completed. Time management is the 'theme' for February.
What are your time management tips?
I am using a large desk planner and an egg timer. Tasks are written by date and time for task allocated. Yes, the egg timer works. I've found I work faster and efficiently on tasks knowing the timer may go off before the task at hand is completed.
https://whatboxacreativelife.blogspot.com/
#HiddenInYourheART
© 2017 Carol Lane Fleming
February is the shortest month, therefore I have decided a change is needed in the area of time management. I am setting dedicated time for writing each morning, followed by household chores, [not really, just throwing in a load of laundry, preparing dinner = popping meal into slow cooker and feeding cats] and then for the Creative Adventure of the day...which could be painting, quilting, drawing, baking, gardening, more writing or....Who knows where the Creative Adventure will lead.
And for as long as needed, tackling 1 January left-over project a day until January's to-do list is completed. Time management is the 'theme' for February.
What are your time management tips?
I am using a large desk planner and an egg timer. Tasks are written by date and time for task allocated. Yes, the egg timer works. I've found I work faster and efficiently on tasks knowing the timer may go off before the task at hand is completed.
https://whatboxacreativelife.blogspot.com/
#HiddenInYourheART
© 2017 Carol Lane Fleming
Sunday, January 1, 2017
January 1, 2017
No more "What if's". No more "Wait 'til later". No more "Boxes".
2017 is Officially the year of "Wildest Dreams and Great Expectations"!
A Renaissance ~ Rebirth
An embracing of Your life's destiny and calling.
An embracing of Your life's destiny and calling.
2017 is the year to Escape the confines of "the Box".
I will be here every step of the way, cheering You on.
Asking questions, Sharing options, and Assisting your climb and break out of ~ "the Box".
Asking questions, Sharing options, and Assisting your climb and break out of ~ "the Box".
2017 A Renaissance ~ Rebirth
An embracing of Your life's destiny and calling.
You are a Creative Individual!
You are Called to Live a Creative Life!
An embracing of Your life's destiny and calling.
You are a Creative Individual!
You are Called to Live a Creative Life!
Ready?
Set?
st~ART!
Set?
st~ART!
What Box? Living a Creative Life
I am here for You!
I am here for You!
Carol
#freedfromboxes
https://whatboxacreativelife.blogspot.com/
#HiddenInYourheART
© 2017 Carol Lane Fleming
#freedfromboxes
https://whatboxacreativelife.blogspot.com/
#HiddenInYourheART
© 2017 Carol Lane Fleming
Sunday, December 25, 2016
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas! On this Beautiful Sunday Morning!!
May the Gift of Christmas be lavishly poured out upon you this day in ever increasing lavish overflowing abundance.
Enjoy this time with your family and friends and I shall see you in 2017!
Merry Christmas!
Carol
#freedfromboxes
https://whatboxacreativelife.blogspot.com/
#HiddenInYourheART
© 2016 Carol Lane Fleming
May the Gift of Christmas be lavishly poured out upon you this day in ever increasing lavish overflowing abundance.
Enjoy this time with your family and friends and I shall see you in 2017!
Merry Christmas!
Carol
#freedfromboxes
https://whatboxacreativelife.blogspot.com/
#HiddenInYourheART
© 2016 Carol Lane Fleming
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
First Day of Winter 2016
The arrival of winter brings much excitement! Will there be SNOW this year? The giddy delight and anticipation of SNOW brings out the child in many and in others~ the dreaded Cabin Fever!
While there is yet time to prepare for the arrival of cold winter days, use these lingering mild days to gather your supplies to ward off Cabin Fever. Listed below are 100+ Ideas to assist your planning of Fun Creative Adventures throughout the Long Cold Winter ahead.
While there is yet time to prepare for the arrival of cold winter days, use these lingering mild days to gather your supplies to ward off Cabin Fever. Listed below are 100+ Ideas to assist your planning of Fun Creative Adventures throughout the Long Cold Winter ahead.
100+ Ideas and Cures for Cabin Fever
1.Long Winter Nap
2. Read your favorite book
3. Watch football play offs
4. Watch a movie
5. Play board games
6. Play cards
7. 1000 piece puzzles
8. Spring Cleaning Early
9. Crafts or hobbies
10. Bake Cookies
11. Plan a party
12. Write letters to send to friends and family
13. Make Valentines Cards to send to shut ins
14. Phone Home
15. Doodle, draw or paint
16. Design a new flowerbed or vegetable garden
17. Order seed catalogs
18. Steamy cups of cocoa, hot tea or coffee
19. Clean out closets
20. Make plans for your summer vacation
21. Knit or Crochet
22. Sew a new wardrobe
23. Start a quilt
24. Build a snowman
25. Bake a cake
26. Redecorate a room in your house
27. Go for a snowy walk
28. Organize your photos
29. Visit your next door neighbor
30. Eat sleep and be merry
31. Books on tape
32. Online shopping
33. Watch an entire tv series
34. Snowy photography
35. Write a book
36. Mop the kitchen
37. Create a Bucket List
38. Take down all of your Christmas decorations
39. Explore New Career Options
40. Research local charities to support in 2017
41. Watch Critter Cams
42. Experiment with new recipes
43. Catch up with old friends online
44. Memorize a poem or Bible verses
45. Play a musical instrument
46. Exercise
47. Prepare your tax return
48. Feed the birds
49. Play charades
50. Learn a new dance
51. Pull out all of your crayons, markers and colored pencils and Color
52. Snow painting
53. Cold Weather Science Experiments
54. Origami
55. Cut out designer paper snowflakes
56. Play Scrabble
57. Legos are a ‘must’
58. Build a blanket fort
59. Water all of your houseplants
60. Make paper airplanes
61. Learn the art of Calligraphy
62. Picnic in the snow [or favorite room]
63. Sort change and roll coins
64. String beads
65. Read your favorite book out loud [in characters]
66. Create a year in advance family fun~days calendar
67. Get a head start on hand crafted Christmas Gifts
68. Write Winter themed Haiku
69. Learn to ‘say’ the alphabet in American Sign Language
70. Create a collection of your favorite quotes
71. Memorize all of the States and State Capitals
72. Time how quickly a pot of boiling water will freeze solid outdoors
73. Create eclectic weavings from items around the house
74. Play checkers
75. Try a new hairstyle
76. Make a list of your 10 best friends and see how many words can be created from the letters in their names
77. Sing LOUD with your favorite CD
78. Try walking backwards through your house without touching anything or falling down
79. Memorize all the Presidents and Vice Presidents in order of their years in service
80. Learn to write in ‘mirror~writing’ [backwards and in reverse]
81. What is your wildest dream? Write the steps you need to take to obtain your dream
82. Identify animal tracks in the snow
83. Invite all the neighborhood children over for a playdate
84. Host a Soup Party for the neighborhood
85. Create Ice Sculptures
86. Build Fairy Houses to be placed in your garden in the Spring
87. Paint a self portrait
88. Update your address book
89. Decorate boiled eggs for lunch
90. Create a list of everything and everyone you like
91. Have a Tea Party
92. Give yourself a manicure
93. Write, Draw and Eat all day using your non-dominate hand
94. Research your favorite animal
95. Make friendship bracelets for each of your friends
96. Go on a scavenger hunt
97. Make sock puppets and have a puppet show
98. Write a Thank you note to your favorite teacher
99. Create a collage of your favorite winter activities
100.Make a fingerprint zoo
101. Wear your dressiest clothes and Sparkle
What is YOUR favorite way to fight Cabin Fever?
~Carol #freedfromBoxeshttps://whatboxacreativelife.blogspot.com/
#HiddenInYourheART
© 2016 Carol Lane Fleming
2. Read your favorite book
3. Watch football play offs
4. Watch a movie
5. Play board games
6. Play cards
7. 1000 piece puzzles
8. Spring Cleaning Early
9. Crafts or hobbies
10. Bake Cookies
11. Plan a party
12. Write letters to send to friends and family
13. Make Valentines Cards to send to shut ins
14. Phone Home
15. Doodle, draw or paint
16. Design a new flowerbed or vegetable garden
17. Order seed catalogs
18. Steamy cups of cocoa, hot tea or coffee
19. Clean out closets
20. Make plans for your summer vacation
21. Knit or Crochet
22. Sew a new wardrobe
23. Start a quilt
24. Build a snowman
25. Bake a cake
26. Redecorate a room in your house
27. Go for a snowy walk
28. Organize your photos
29. Visit your next door neighbor
30. Eat sleep and be merry
31. Books on tape
32. Online shopping
33. Watch an entire tv series
34. Snowy photography
35. Write a book
36. Mop the kitchen
37. Create a Bucket List
38. Take down all of your Christmas decorations
39. Explore New Career Options
40. Research local charities to support in 2017
41. Watch Critter Cams
42. Experiment with new recipes
43. Catch up with old friends online
44. Memorize a poem or Bible verses
45. Play a musical instrument
46. Exercise
47. Prepare your tax return
48. Feed the birds
49. Play charades
50. Learn a new dance
51. Pull out all of your crayons, markers and colored pencils and Color
52. Snow painting
53. Cold Weather Science Experiments
54. Origami
55. Cut out designer paper snowflakes
56. Play Scrabble
57. Legos are a ‘must’
58. Build a blanket fort
59. Water all of your houseplants
60. Make paper airplanes
61. Learn the art of Calligraphy
62. Picnic in the snow [or favorite room]
63. Sort change and roll coins
64. String beads
65. Read your favorite book out loud [in characters]
66. Create a year in advance family fun~days calendar
67. Get a head start on hand crafted Christmas Gifts
68. Write Winter themed Haiku
69. Learn to ‘say’ the alphabet in American Sign Language
70. Create a collection of your favorite quotes
71. Memorize all of the States and State Capitals
72. Time how quickly a pot of boiling water will freeze solid outdoors
73. Create eclectic weavings from items around the house
74. Play checkers
75. Try a new hairstyle
76. Make a list of your 10 best friends and see how many words can be created from the letters in their names
77. Sing LOUD with your favorite CD
78. Try walking backwards through your house without touching anything or falling down
79. Memorize all the Presidents and Vice Presidents in order of their years in service
80. Learn to write in ‘mirror~writing’ [backwards and in reverse]
81. What is your wildest dream? Write the steps you need to take to obtain your dream
82. Identify animal tracks in the snow
83. Invite all the neighborhood children over for a playdate
84. Host a Soup Party for the neighborhood
85. Create Ice Sculptures
86. Build Fairy Houses to be placed in your garden in the Spring
87. Paint a self portrait
88. Update your address book
89. Decorate boiled eggs for lunch
90. Create a list of everything and everyone you like
91. Have a Tea Party
92. Give yourself a manicure
93. Write, Draw and Eat all day using your non-dominate hand
94. Research your favorite animal
95. Make friendship bracelets for each of your friends
96. Go on a scavenger hunt
97. Make sock puppets and have a puppet show
98. Write a Thank you note to your favorite teacher
99. Create a collage of your favorite winter activities
100.Make a fingerprint zoo
101. Wear your dressiest clothes and Sparkle
What is YOUR favorite way to fight Cabin Fever?
~Carol #freedfromBoxeshttps://whatboxacreativelife.blogspot.com/
#HiddenInYourheART
© 2016 Carol Lane Fleming
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Christmas Decorating is it a Science or an Art?
When do you begin decorating for Christmas?
I have friends that begin decorating in October and others that don't even consider decorating until December 18th! Personally, I'm not sure how to answer the question~ I've just noticed a fully decorated Christmas Tree that has remained on my mantle displayed for over a year! How have I not seen this tree until today??? Is it okay with you if I pretend that I just put it up for this season?
Are you a traditionalist when decorating, using reds and greens or silver and blues as your palette? Or do you work with the more vibrant colors of pinks, aqua, lime and purples? What about ornaments and other decorations~ Do you use handcrafted ornaments or those you have purchased?
Today I am filled and overflowing with questions it seems.
Below is a set of questions to propel us into the Christmas Season.
1. When do you begin decorating?
2. Do you decorate every room in your home?
3. What color palette[s] do you use when decorating for Christmas?
4. Do you use all of your ornaments every year?
5. Real tree vs artificial tree, which do you prefer?
6. Christmas lights: inside? outside? colors? or all white?
7. Do you collect specific types of Christmas ornaments or decorations?
8. Do you use a Nativity in your Christmas decor?
I'm off to the attic, the closets and under the beds in search of Christmas decorations! Thinking I will go 'simple' this year, that is until the Christmas Bug bites and then....who knows what will happen! Only 24 days until Christmas, I'd better get busy!
I need some ideas for the front porch this year~
How are you decorating your entry?
Carol
#freedfromboxes
https://whatboxacreativelife.blogspot.com/
#HiddenInYourheART
© 2016 Carol Lane Fleming
I have friends that begin decorating in October and others that don't even consider decorating until December 18th! Personally, I'm not sure how to answer the question~ I've just noticed a fully decorated Christmas Tree that has remained on my mantle displayed for over a year! How have I not seen this tree until today??? Is it okay with you if I pretend that I just put it up for this season?
Are you a traditionalist when decorating, using reds and greens or silver and blues as your palette? Or do you work with the more vibrant colors of pinks, aqua, lime and purples? What about ornaments and other decorations~ Do you use handcrafted ornaments or those you have purchased?
Today I am filled and overflowing with questions it seems.
Below is a set of questions to propel us into the Christmas Season.
1. When do you begin decorating?
2. Do you decorate every room in your home?
3. What color palette[s] do you use when decorating for Christmas?
4. Do you use all of your ornaments every year?
5. Real tree vs artificial tree, which do you prefer?
6. Christmas lights: inside? outside? colors? or all white?
7. Do you collect specific types of Christmas ornaments or decorations?
8. Do you use a Nativity in your Christmas decor?
I'm off to the attic, the closets and under the beds in search of Christmas decorations! Thinking I will go 'simple' this year, that is until the Christmas Bug bites and then....who knows what will happen! Only 24 days until Christmas, I'd better get busy!
I need some ideas for the front porch this year~
How are you decorating your entry?
Carol
#freedfromboxes
https://whatboxacreativelife.blogspot.com/
#HiddenInYourheART
© 2016 Carol Lane Fleming
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