Melonomania

Lovely Leone of Naturebrushstrokes has tagged me with the watermelon award. I already completed this award on my other blog here, so this time my melons are going to be creative (maybe red with yellow splotches, or purple crosshatching with blue and gold highlights?)

So basically I list a few things that make me happy and then I list a few blogs that make me happy....

As this is my creative blog there shall be a creative twist....

• My journal makes me happy. I love wreck this journal. I love the bits I have repaired. I love the back cover with glitter and hearts trapped in a pocket so you can squidge them about. I love looking at other peoples wrecking. Thank you so much Jamie...
• I love postcards. They invade my life in several ways. Postcrossing makes me buy postcards and send them to people around the world and causes lovely postcards from exotic locales to drop onto my door mat. I love Postmuse, who sends her blank postcards out to people who live or have been there so they can write their stories or thoughts on tha back and then post them back for her to blog about them and share the stories. I love 4x6 expressions, a lovely postcard art yahoo group where beautiful people make beautiful postcard art. I love Postsecret where people send secrets on postcards to be published on a blog and in books.
  
• I love discovering new art supplies, like irridescent paint and metallic paint and beautiful papers...
• I love supportive soul sisters, who spread the comment love and give me lovely things to comment on in return. The first of these was the lovely Mel....
• I love making things. I love pay it forward and blog candy which make me stretch myself in new directions with new projects, mostly after I have started as getting started can be hard to do sometimes.
• I love silk painting. It doesn't matter what you, the beauty of those glistening paints on that lovely silk just works... Try it (and don't worry if you don't have all the fancy kit... Chances are you won't produce perfectly rendered drawings on your first few goes so...)
• I love clay. It feels so much like mud and I love it... I must play with clay more.
• I love paper. I need to learn more about it, to make it, to bind it, to use it... My Dad was (is) a printer and I grew up with the smell of hot ink and paper. I watched him caress paper so it would do what he wanted and all line up or so he could tell the thickness. Paper is in my blood, going back three generations. I think i am the fourth...
• I love my printer. It is a scanner, copier and printer all in one and prints off good quality photos on expensive paper. It is a real godsend...
• I love beads. All those millenia of human creativity have resulted in so many different types of beads made from so many materials. Then to add to it all, the patterns and stitches we have discovered for putting them all together....

and now for my ten blogs... Looking at my ten creative fave things, I really feel that for me, creativity comes in a community, the two things go hand in hand here.... and they should in these blogs too. This is my all time bestest so there will be some repeats, not only from me, but back up the chain of awardees as well.... Starting to go in circles but hey...!

• Mel's Creative Clutter
• Dianne's Art Beneathe Cottonwoods
• Misty's Art Gecko Studios
• Flora's Bone Head Studios
• Paula's Little Scraps of Magic
• Leone's Natures Brush Strokes
• Suzie's Spirit Whispers
• Rowenna's Warrior Girl
• Kavindra's Clear Path to Happy
• Carla's Leafdays

and if you can't see why i like them....