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Wood Elves have not been shown any love for Homestead on Housing so can you guys come up with some ideas for Wood Elves Houses.
Halloween is the spookiest day of the year, take it up a notch with outdoor tree decor ideas for Halloween to scare of kids and adults alike.
It's somewhat surprising, given the degree of theological and ritual innovation in the Pagan community, that we don't think very far outside the box when it comes to places of worship. We Pagans might benefit from shifting from church/community center model to a shrine model of public religiosity. Here are 3 ways Pagans can offer the experience of "churchless religion" to people.
A large foam tree with a small door in it by Justin Briggs.
I have been working on my first “fantasy” style house. I imagine it would be a house for small elves up high in a tree deep in the wood...
Thoughts on my kids' wall mural.
I have been working on my first “fantasy” style house. I imagine it would be a house for small elves up high in a tree deep in the wood...
When I was very little my Mum bought the Jill Barklem Brambly Hedge books for me and I loved them. I used to paint and draw pictures copied from the books and I had posters on my wall. I still ha…
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Creativity Doesn't Sleep sometimes it drives you completely crazy, sometimes it's heaven & when you see something completely beautiful, something that takes your breath away, you know someone's vision, in their own minds, has made it possible, they wouldn't accept anything less than what they envisioned. no matter how difficult to actually design & build, they remained determined. when I saw the image below, at first I thought it was a painting, looking closer I knew it wasn't. imagine actually building this. or the person who conceived this incredible installation art, hanging Chinese lanterns at the Montreal Botanical Gardens, October 2004 or this... beautiful & perfect little tree house, oh yes, we must know that someone determined to complete it with perfection was harassed by their own creativity until it was complete. or the art director who styled this photo shoot, featuring bedding, actually had to build this platform in toto and then had to wait for the perfect moment, when the mist & fog made their entrance, to actually photograph his creation. an old boat, ruined by time, imagined as a sitting area in a garden... then digitally made it the colors of the story they were telling. or this, a few years ago this would have been thought impossible, but a gymnast, dancer, someone, envisioned how dramatic it could be, and worked 100's of hours to make it happen. WHAT IS CREATIVITY ANYWAY? An Article by Jan Phillips for the Huffington Post, 2010 "Have you ever had the thought, "I'm not creative. I can't even draw a straight line"? If so, you're not alone. Many people think that there is some essential relationship between creativity and the ability to make art. If they can't paint like Picasso, sing like Josh Groban, or sculpt like Henry Moore, they don't dare claim to be creative. It feels like an arrogant thing to say about yourself, if you're not an expert, not making a living from your creations, not well-known and publicly acclaimed for your imaginative gifts. Why, when creativity is our very birthright, do so few of us feel creative? Why, when we're asked to think of someone creative, do we rarely think about ourselves, but of the public figures that have defined creativity over the years? We think of Monet, Mozart, Jackson Pollack, Martha Graham, Ansel Adams, always the figureheads, when the real truth is that every one of us is a born creator. That's the hallmark of being human: the ability to create, to turn something invisible into something visible, to forge a poem out of a feeling or a song out of a sorrow. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, says that creativity doesn't happen in our heads but in the interaction between our imagination and our social context. It's a matter of experience and response, a matter of relationship to others and a commentary on the significance of our encounters. Creativity is the vivid expression of who we are in the world--our imagination begets our thoughts, our thoughts beget our words, our words beget our actions, our actions beget our experience, our collective experience and expression begets our culture. Each of us is contributing to the creation of the cultures we participate in. The world is not divided into two groups of the creative and the uncreative. If there's a distinction, it's between those who are creatively productive and those with unexpressed potential. We're creative by default. We're genetically predisposed to create. Each of us, to varying degrees, is intrinsically motivated to create, to be original and to solve challenging problems. The question to ask is not, "Am I creative?" but rather, "What inspires me to create?" Personal creativity is not about intelligence or information. It's about inspiration, from the Latin spiritus, meaning "breath, courage, the soul. " Creativity is about being fully alive, living courageously, or as the painter Joan Miro´ says, "Expressing with precision all the gold sparks the soul gives off." When is the last time you felt fully alive? What is it that calls forth your courage and trumps your fear of sharing your soul? Knowing this is the key to discovering the creativity that is waiting to be expressed through you." I love this philosophy. I know every endeavor is creativeness. Think about medicine, advertising, business development, system integration, hardware, software, setting a table, gardening, teaching school, etc. (maybe not politics or lawyering) Everything begins as an idea. Tell me, what do you think about this? The precious little sign Creativity Never Sleeps is from an Etsy artist, you will find the shop HERE posted from the hill country of Texas where one has time to think...
We love to work to commission. Here are some recent examples of our work.
Drool on....drool on.....here are some of my recent, and not-so-recent favorites....a couple of them are also from my book "Humble Homes, Simple Shacks". These are posted here for the simple sake of some inspirational eye candy- the reason there are no interiors, and such. A vintage postcard A-frame Iceland Fishing Shack A homemade houseboat in The Lake George, NY region A board and batten sided tiny home (from the book "Humble Homes, Simple Shacks"). David and Jeanie Stiles' backwoods retreat in NY (from "Humble Homes, Simple Shacks") Cal-Earth Adobe Hut A playhouse design by Ryan Smith- that would also make for a nice shed office, or guest house, if enlarged A true TREE house..... An a-frame yoga studio/out building.... Mickey Muennig Solar Loft House
We're heading for the airport today to send out house guest home. I think everyone had a good time, including me, who kept up with a herd of teenagers in malls for two days and spread the table with enough food to stuff a platoon. There may be a little buttermilk fried chicken in the back of the fridge if you look carefully. I'm ready for a long nap with a nice pina colada and a project book. Light the candles and turn on the new age music please. And someone find my shiatsu chair. I should just mainline some coffee and get this place back in order. I shopped. It looks like the set of Hoarders around here. So while I get things back to normal, how about a little brain candy from my file marked Treehouse Porn? We all need a secret place to hide. And say good-bye to Samwow's pretty girlfriend Bethany, who was the epitome of a gracious Southern guest. We hope she'll be back soon so we can get to know her even better. See you guys tomorrow, and eat your oatmeal- you'll need it for this project!
This is the tallest tree house in British Columbia near Revelstoke, BC.
PeaceLove sez, "The beautiful Wilkinson residence in Portland is a really swanky pad for superrich Hobbits. I haz major wantage." Located on a flag lot, a steep sloping grade provided…
Grab some hot cocoa, it's time to dream about the cosiest of cabins you could be curling up in over the twelve days of Christmas. Speaking of which, have you found your nearest and dearest the perfect gift? How about the promise of a magical winter getaway...?! Just a thought. Shall we cue "Twelve D
