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So the challenge from Kate on here was to mention ways in which you are changing your life. Well that is quite appropriate for me at the moment.

I’ve just started plotting and accounting for the things I enjoy and those I avoid. It’s only been a few days but strangely I find some small buzz in attending to the tasks and ticking or counting them off. So my app of choice for this has been TraxItall.

Been creating in an up cycling type way.

Today has seen the first stage of my new box project completed. This will be easier when my glue gun arrives. I'd also like some bronze paints and black and antique gold. Blurt has been trying to make the paper tubes like I have been doing at quiet points in the evenings but she is getting frustrated as it must be a lot harder than I have been making it look! I don't suppose trying to watch James Bond at the same time helps her. Any way here is a glimpse of my first test creation.

Homemade Christmas Tree This year

Blurt was out of school an hour early as it was the last day in. So we got straight down to work on making the tree this year. This one uses a washing basket a printer tube, a roll of wallpaper, a bucket, some daubs of paint and a splatter of glitter. Quite impressed that we managed to get it all done in one evening but now we need to work out what to eat as we kind of forgot about that. Well now we have somewhere to put some pressies. I guess I'll have to go lightly on the laundry as my tree has been made out of it! But it hasn't been harmed in anyway and on the twelfth day I can get it back again.

Have any of you got creative this Christmas? I'd love to hear about it!

A Creative New Task–Hub4Trades

I’m currently working with Funicula Ltd and they have a new project on the go that has kept me busy image making – so I thought I’d lash together some of the hundreds of images that are required for the development of the Hub4Trades website. I’m quite sure there will be stacks more too!

Yummy graphics. I’ll be sharing some more on this and some of the other things I’m up to at Funicula Ltd

Taking Control of Time

I was mulling over yesterday that things had started to spiral out of control in regards to time and tasks. This involves not only work related tasks but also family matters, housework and just sort of everything really. I think it hit its true full potential last night when I ended up exhausted in bed but with a severe inability to sleep. This in itself wasn’t unusual – hey it happens especially when you think you have had an awesome idea.

I did fear that at some point today I may just find the time to curl up and rest but fortunately I did not succumb to a nap or downtime and ploughed on. The good thing about this is that it will start to correct a body clock that went a bit amiss on a holiday before Bank Holiday and a change in work patterns etc.

So anyway, I’m tired, rambling and a bit groggy but pleased that I can feel the end of the weird time shifts may be approaching.

You may be thinking that it is distinctly odd that someone who claims they are losing time is sat down now writing a blog and not actually attending to the things that need doing! Potentially this is a good point but I am not claiming my Time Management in itself is dire but that there is a mental wobble going on where time itself is concerned! So in fact just sitting down addressing the matter and acknowledging and hoping to set real actions and targets to attempt to improve the matter in itself is extremely beneficial.

I will be leaving it until the morning to take action on my Eureka moment that occurred last night which had me quite giddy. It will involve a little expenditure and it is always wise to wait until a good nights sleep and a little calmness before acting on these things.

So until morning I am going to get some sensible food and simple tasks achieved including some huddling on settee in good company! Ahhh! Until then.

Time appears to pass in disordered junks!

Having realised I have not managed to maintain a solid grasp of blogging I have put five minutes thought into that today. Well! I say 5 minutes but who the hell knows how long really as time seems to flop and flimsy past not only at an alarming rate but for me also on a wobbly path! I put something down to pick up again because I’m not an octopus and then I blink, turn round and nearly a week or more has gone past!

I’m not enjoying this erratic passage of time at all! In myself I am happy and content overweight but generally healthy, I believe. However I find that my perception of time and my way of organising it is to say the least sorrowful.

I thought things would get better after the summer holidays and Blurt back at school etc. but the time disrupter is certainly myself and not those around me who are all fairly functional.

So I will need to do a bit of research into managing time and by this I don’t mean squeezing things effectively into time slots as we normally think of time management but more giving myself the skill to feel time as it really is.

I am also hoping that if I get a grip on this and don’t feel quite so punch drunk then my creativity may find a boost. As things are at the moment I can feel the ideas and inspiration but I can’t focus long enough to even make a healthy start on things never mind make completion.

So a little bit of research and grab the situation and take control of it rather than just be bashed up by it all may be what has to take place.

It’s been exciting so far. And very creative.

I quit my job to work for myself. My last day in my old job was 2 weeks ago today. So tomorrow will mark the start of my third week (eek time flies!) working for myself.

In that short space of time I have had creative opportunities that have staggered and inspired so I am delighted with that.

I have also been applying conscious effort to work more productively and efficiently in order to maximise the time I have available. I am sure it is something we all need to dedicate conscious effort to repeatedly.

For me one of my biggest failings is my emotional response to hurdles or hindrances and putting time aside to practice calm and positive responses instead of adopting a scared rabbit or hedgehog approach will be helpful not only for me but for my family, business success and clients.

I haven’t had any time to paint and draw in the last week – or should I say I haven’t put aside time to paint and draw – however as I said I think my creative side is skipping with joy with many of my work related tasks. Indeed there is a LOT of 3D work scheduled as one of my clients projects and I am thrilled.

So to share my hope I’d like to share a sunrise. I’d like to make each new day a new start with fresh hopes and enthusiasm. xx

A little bit of brain training to boost creativity

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My brain had been a little but frazzled lately which has meant I’ve struggled sleeping and maintaining concentration. That is why I am spending time studying and practising method to improve my cognitive whirring.

Lumosity is proving to be fun and there is plenty to do.

I need to send some old work to deviantART