CREATIVITY THRU COVID!

I had to change my image to add grey hair in need of a haircut!

2020 is going to be remembered for so many things. At the top of the list will be too many deaths!

But, instead of a political rant about effective leadership, today I’m focusing on everything this pandemic touched in my own life. 

I tried to capture my personality in my masks!

From my face, to what I eat, and the air I breathe, nothing remained the same. From the ceiling to the floor, from the walls to drawers, everything was changed. 

You spend a lot of time at home and your eye roams. It finds all the old stuff, and then the fingers click! From website to website purchases got made. Even new fingertip towels came amongst the boxes left at our door.

New fingertip towels

Some could call it "Retail Therapy," but I prefer to call it COVID Creativity! From outside to inside, there were not too many spaces that didn't get some kind of COVID makeover.

From poems to painting, from photo manipulation upon towels and mats, I put my creative side to use.

My own photos put onto hand towels

I love the smiling bread on this towel

New bathroom towels and decal

I chose an Erin Hanson print and had it put onto a tote bag. Too bad it was going to be my water aerobics bag. That class has been cancelled.

Yoga mats I created. The stones are my photo from the Atlantis in the Bahamas.

Tuscan floor mats I bought to replace old ones.

Painter hard at work!

I bought an iron scroll and then a decal to complete my art piece!

My completed and signed Paint by Number

My second and last Paint by Number

Life is beautiful inside and out. I made the outside piece to go above the thermometer

I cut down a dead bush and left enough to make an easel for my art

Staying home led me to join the ranks of sourdough bakers. No, just kidding! But, I did bake more cookies. I also took time to join Home Chef and pick out new food choices. 

I haven't turned into Marie Kondo, but I gave it my best by organizing my jewelry into two new jewelry cases. 

I also took 10 purses and 23 scarves and put them into two hanging organizers. What a difference that made!

                               

By far the most creative stuff I did during this COVID pandemic was write poetry. 

 

 

I  also took poetic license by writing a story and adding it to John Wilhelm's manipulated photos.

As I finish writing this blog,  I'm half listening to the TV report about President Trump who has contracted COVID.  He is now a patient at Walter Reed Hospital.  No words to mince here. I hope he and the First Lady, and all the people who he infected all recover. But, this pandemic should have been under better control by now. Creative avoidance didn't work. It's time to paint a new picture - the truth!

Poetically,

COVID Crazy Sylvia

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going to be remembered  for so many things. At the top of the list will be too many deaths! But, instead of a political rant about effective leadership, today I’m focusing on everything this pandemic touched in my own life. From my face, to what I eat, and the air I breathe, nothing remained the same. From the ceiling, to the floor, from the walls, to drawers, everything was changed. You spend a lot of time at home and your eye roams. It finds all the old stuff, and then the fingers click! From website to website purchases get made. Even new fingertip towels came amongst the boxes left at our door.