{"id":1179,"date":"2012-06-04T16:18:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T20:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2012-06-04T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T20:30:26","slug":"tips-for-everyday-creativity-guest-post-on-crescendoh-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/tips-for-everyday-creativity-guest-post-on-crescendoh-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Everyday Creativity &#8211; Guest Post on Crescendoh.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1181\" title=\"hand sewing bubble book\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hand-sewign-bubble-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hand-sewign-bubble-book.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hand-sewign-bubble-book-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hand-sewign-bubble-book-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hand-sewign-bubble-book-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was honored to be invited to guest post on Jenny Doh&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.crescendoh.com\/crescendoh\/\">Crescendoh.com<\/a> for the week of June 3-9. I hope you&#8217;ll hop over there and read <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.crescendoh.com\/art_saves\/2012\/06\/everyday-creativity-by-ruth-bleakley.html\">my essay about everyday creativity<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em>OK, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll admit it: I have a creative compulsion. For me, the need and desire to create new things goes beyond simply wanting to \u00e2\u20ac\u201d if I go for too long without indulging in some kind of creative pastime, I get seriously \u00e2\u20ac\u0153itchy fingers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not the only one! The question is, how do I balance creative time with my everyday life? <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.crescendoh.com\/art_saves\/2012\/06\/everyday-creativity-by-ruth-bleakley.html\">Read how!<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have come FROM Crescendoh.com, welcome, and here are some links you might like:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mini Book Photo Tutorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/mini-book-photo-tutorial\/\">Mini Accordion Book Photo Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Floating Ink Bombs: Decorative Paper With Bubbles\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/bubblepaper\/\">Floating Ink Bombs : Decorative Paper with Bubbles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Draw an Octopus: Mini Accordion Book DIY\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/draw-an-octopus\/\">Octopus Drawing Sequence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was honored to be invited to guest post on Jenny Doh&#8217;s blog Crescendoh.com for the week of June 3-9. I hope you&#8217;ll hop over there and read my essay about everyday creativity! Here&#8217;s an excerpt: OK, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll admit it: I have a creative compulsion. For me, the need and desire to create new things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}