Part of bringing creativity more into my daily life is about what grows in the front garden. This is how it started....
...And 6 months later we are growing tomatoes, melon, corn, beans, capsicum, pumpkin, cucumber, carrots, silverbeet, strawberries and herbs! We wanted to make some home made baskets to grow hanging plants so we enlisted the help of my partner's mum, who is a guru of traditional craft skills. This has turned out to be a beautiful project to share together, and is rapidly leading to a regular arts day in her lounge room every Sunday.
Here is the first basket I have started with her...
Here is the first basket I have started with her...
Basket beginnings...
Growing...
Experimenting...
And still experimenting with finishing off...Think it needs another trip to the guru!
What is special about this story, is that this project has a certain therapeutic benefit for all of us involved. My partner's mum had stopped making a lot of these things for a long time, and our enthusiasm to learn has ignited her fire again too. It is wonderful to learn from her and to spend time chatting about life and art together. Art making, I find, has an intrinsic quality of being able to bring people together. Yay. I'm inspired!
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