It is true – we all have one. A Creative Life.
I truly believe we are all artists. Whether in the arrangement of the pillows on our beds, or our book shelves, or the swinging copper pans, or a meal on a plate, or a garden, or a photograph, or the ring on an old hand or the perfect balance of spices and herbs or a dance in shades of white, a canvas of paint, brooms leaning on a wall or whatever. It is ALL art.
Some of us are secret artists, some of us are those gentle auntie artists who drift through our generations leaving strong bright oil paintings on our walls and some of you have a soul that vibrates its art onto a canvas or page and and also have that ability to sell from your studio to my walls. Available for us all to see. Wonderful all.
Us humble bloggers are artists in our own way too.
And here is another gem. We can be artists in an environment that cares not for our art. The art itself is our creative food. Even if not one soul but us sees the beauty in a fine row of cabbages, or a sparkling kitchen, if we are the only ones who stare into a sunset for so long we forget our feet and frozen hands – we see it and that is enough. We create and cherish our own Creative Lives within ourselves. You don’t have to sell art to be an artist. No-one needs to see.
I am a secret artist. We are the ones who watch.
I hope you have a lovely day; fellow artists.
love celi
ps – (for my new readers) If you ever see an image that you like on my blog – STEAL IT! I have no copyright issues, I won’t live long enough or be famous enough to bother minding. Just STEAL IT. If you show it to someone else tell them where you found it. Did you see that if ten more people join the Fellowship there will be 5,00o of you. FIVE THOUSAND – I remember the excitement of having Forty readers – some of you remember that too. I opened a bottle of champagne (and drunk it too) I was that excited! Five thousand – isn’t that lovely. Thank you.. all .. c
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108 responses to “A Creative Life.”
Beautiful!
Not to forget: You are an artist of life !
Love your super sunset shot and the lovely creek photo with its ice borders…
Count down – 3- 2 – 1 – 0 – and Up Up and Away (very old song sung by The 5th Dimension 😉 ). Counting the days with you…
Lovely thoughts today C. If you opened and drank a bottle of champagne when you hit 40 followers, I’m afraid the entire Fellowship will have to come and help you with the champagne you will open when you hit 5,000! 🙂 And I promise to put quite a dent in it myself! You are worth every follower and more!
I know – just imagine! c
Congratulations Miss C,
on making close to 5,000 people happier every single day , by bringing them art through your photos words and thoughts 🙂
Been silently following you for oh so long , and I must thank you for the peace and hope and beauty that you give us every morning .
You are an amazing artist as you well know 🙂
Turtle Hugs
Thank you Turtle – c
You might see some “Turtlies” around today as I linked to you 😉
Turtle Hugs 🙂
Stunning sunset Miss C, and you captured it perfectly with your artist’s eye – just like you do with all the farmy animals. I think you’re right, we are all artists in some way or another; I see beauty or something special in the simplest of things, even in a row of cabbages!
You will hit 5,000 soon and that would call for BIG celebrations with a bottle (or two) of champers!
Yes, so true, and you are a beautiful artist of images and words.
You deserve every one of those readers. Amazing. You have earned us one by one by one and made friends with us all. You have given so much. Heart. Yes, art. Wisdom. And great abundant heaping spoonfuls of humor. Think of that. A solo prairie farmer girl with 5000 friends.
Yup – slowly and surely – one by one.. c
One of your artistic endeavours is to give pleasure to thousands every day. Not many can say that; your art is unique. As I said to you elsewhere, your posts are eagerly-anticipated early morning reads to accompany our first coffee of the day. Other forms of beauty: an artist’s eye with the camera; satisfaction gained from a row of cabbages; a freshloaf of bread; a row of happy piggy faces waiting for some attention and a few treats from Miss C. Your art may not be ‘conventional’, but it is truly real…
Kate ! Thank you for the mackerel sky! I checked to see if anyone knew what I was talking about. You did. Hugs!
5000 is amazing and I can see why. A fresh new delivery of word pictures and amazing photos every morning. A wonderful sunset (another few weeks and mine will move around into view!) and the honeymoon suite. The bed seems to have a headboard and the crumpled duvet thrown over on the dresser in the height of the shenanigans! You lift my heart everyday… and today I needed it badly.
Here for heart lifting anytime!! c
This is one of those rare posts that I wish I had written. You are exactly right, Celi, our creativity is our food, our lifeblood. I have no protective devices in place for my photos either! I hope people WANT to use them. It shares the beauty around. Love your work. xx
Thank you honey!! c
The G.O. who has been a silent fan to date asked me to sign his up… couldn’t miss out, he was # 4998 🙂 I love what you have put into words today, every day really, but four years ago I realised that the everyday was my inspiration & art-space. It was such a revelation. Just to please myself. Sharing via the blogging community has been a lovely bonus 🙂
Tell him welcome and thank you.. two more to go and we hit the Big 50 (plus a couple more O’s) ..
It’s a good thing for him too, whole new skill set… progressing smartphone > email > Instagram account > Tablet > WordPress & Gravatar 🙂
Miss C – I have just looked – I have too . . . it DOES say 5000!! Hugs and hugs and more hugs – I SO remember congratulating you when you went over a 1000: what a journey it has been . . . and so agree about all of this being full of art forms . . . actually Celi, perhaps that is your secret success: you have never talked about it but we have felt it, and felt comfortable with it . . . life is full or art forms and the farmy is full of life . . . a daily tonic we all crave . . .thank you ma’am 😀 !!
Two more to go on my counter but maybe there are two more in the works that you can see. Have a great day Eha.. c
12.27 pm East Australia Summer Time – and it DOES say 5000: congratulations, and celebrations and felicitations Miss C . . . my bottle is open and hope you are still awake . . . . at this time next year if not earlier we shall celebrate 10, 000 . . . I’m kind;of glad this ‘happened ‘Down Under’ with all your very many friends deep and true here and you being due to lift a glass in bui a few days 😀 !! Blessings!!!
My counter says 4,999, EST Australia (I’m in NSW mid north coast right now)… I think WordPress is a bit all over the place with all the Fellowship time zones. Whatever the correct number, congratulations are still in order, I agree!
Well, mine said 5000 at about 11 am our time, then backed off to 4998, then played around with 4999 and gave me 5000 even about 30 minutes ago! Well, Kate, if we keep on following, the 5000 even really does not count – all the love and caring does 😀 !! Have good Valentine’s Day . . .
Same to you! And Celi has dozen of ‘silent’ followers anyway, the husbands, wives and significant others of many of her Farmy Faithful, so it’s been over 5,000 for ages anyway!
YES! very soon I will be on that side of the world – so excited!
Mine shows 5002 at t his moment, just before 3am EST (North America)!!!
woooooooooo hoooooooooooooo……. well done! Congratulations! Break out in Celebration! 🙂
(and, yes, those are exclamation marks, many of them…. lol)
5000, that’s quite a number, congratulations. I love this post , a creative life, the creative process , whatever we call it- it has to be nourished to grow.
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It’s champagne time ! 5000 🙂