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Creativity: Your Daily Gift
Creativity in Daily Life is your guide to exploring your own creativity and communing with the beauty and inspiration dwelling in your everyday life and world. Leave behind your workday and ordinary chores, and engage your imagination and creativity by observing details around you. Writing a journal, poetry and stories, drawing and sketching, daydreaming of big and small ideas, welcome creativity into your life and activate and sharpen your senses, awakening your imagination to discover moments of magic. There is so much we miss as we move quickly and busily about, without paying attention to our surroundings. Arouse your curiosity, deepen your attention and turn creativity into an everyday and exciting way of engaging and living in our rich and colorful world. Start to develop and experience your innate creativity. Experience your life as a work of art, magical and worthy of your attention.
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144 pages, Hardcover
Published November 14, 2023
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November 27, 2023
A beautiful book with a beautiful message 🌸
Creativity is a lovely inspirational book about choosing to find the joy and creativity in your everyday life. The author argues that by looking for the beauty around us and appreciating the pleasure to be had in simple things, we can nurture our innate creativity in many ways.
She offers many suggestions about how directing your attention consciously can change your perspective of what creativity means.
As she writes: "art is not reserved for artists". It can be a vase of flowers on a windowsill, a scarf that you love wearing, or the way you serve a plate of food.
But she also provides specific suggestions regarding journalling, watercolour painting and scrapbooking (among other things).
After each chapter, she provides suggested affirmations and a prayer. Don't be put off by the word "prayer"—think of it like a longer affirmation or an invocation similar to the simplified Serenity Prayer!
Of course, it's easy to read statements about beauty and calm and think "as if!" when you're scrambling to get kids of to school or toddlers into a bathtub.
But I think the message of mindfulness, exercising your senses, and the power of play is always worth reinforcing. Especially when I see how much joy things like reading, journalling and decorating and rearranging bookshelves brings to the bookstagram community.
I love the happy, colourful illustrations throughout the book, and I think I'll come back to this regularly for a refreshing boost of creative optimism.
The only thing I think to be aware of is the high volume of text in here. This is not a guide of how to draw or make things with instructions etc, but more of a book to encourage you to stretch your creative muscles with confidence.
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Disclaimer: this book was gifted by the publisher in return for an honest review
Creativity is a lovely inspirational book about choosing to find the joy and creativity in your everyday life. The author argues that by looking for the beauty around us and appreciating the pleasure to be had in simple things, we can nurture our innate creativity in many ways.
She offers many suggestions about how directing your attention consciously can change your perspective of what creativity means.
As she writes: "art is not reserved for artists". It can be a vase of flowers on a windowsill, a scarf that you love wearing, or the way you serve a plate of food.
But she also provides specific suggestions regarding journalling, watercolour painting and scrapbooking (among other things).
After each chapter, she provides suggested affirmations and a prayer. Don't be put off by the word "prayer"—think of it like a longer affirmation or an invocation similar to the simplified Serenity Prayer!
Of course, it's easy to read statements about beauty and calm and think "as if!" when you're scrambling to get kids of to school or toddlers into a bathtub.
But I think the message of mindfulness, exercising your senses, and the power of play is always worth reinforcing. Especially when I see how much joy things like reading, journalling and decorating and rearranging bookshelves brings to the bookstagram community.
I love the happy, colourful illustrations throughout the book, and I think I'll come back to this regularly for a refreshing boost of creative optimism.
The only thing I think to be aware of is the high volume of text in here. This is not a guide of how to draw or make things with instructions etc, but more of a book to encourage you to stretch your creative muscles with confidence.
***
Disclaimer: this book was gifted by the publisher in return for an honest review
January 20, 2024
I enjoyed this book. I always love her art work and beautiful kind words ✨🫶🌈
February 18, 2024
✅ inspiring
✅ adorable
✅ makes me feel positive
✅ adorable
✅ makes me feel positive
September 27, 2024
this book is so filled with joy! i have such an appreciation for this lovely author. her list of books are all so wonderful to read :)
December 15, 2024
4.5 stars
October 26, 2025
Such a beautiful book, full of words of inspiration to nurture ones creative soul.
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