Creative Magpie: Soul Poet Rachel Maullin
Here is my first Creative Magpie post and to kick off this new blog feature I am focussing on a recently discovered poetry virtuoso Rachel Maullin. Rachel is a fellow healer and runs a complimentary therapy practice called Mother Nurture at the Boot Factory in Wolverhampton. When she is not doing therapeutic massage or reiki, Rachel is writing amazingly soulful poetry (see the end of the post for some delicious examples). I asked Rachel to answer some questions about her poetry and the creative process. Continue reading »
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Introducing “Creative Magpie” Blog Feature
Magpie Treasure
The magpie in me finds many and varied wondrous treasures in the world and I have decided to feature in a blog post one person each week who I find particularly inspiring. They may be a textile artist (as I am) or a poet, songwriter/singer, ceramicist, jewelry maker or dreamcatcher. This blog feature will allow me to self-indulge in some creative candy and to share the love by bringing them to your attention too along with observations about their own particular brand of creativity. If you want to star in my Creative Magpie feature then please email me.
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Innovation is the Salvation of the Nation
Earthship.net website
I saw a brilliant tv program the other night about Mike Reynolds - the guy who designed and started building Earthships back in the 70′s in Taos, New Mexico. Earthships are built from old tyres packed with earth, old glass or plastic bottles and beer cans. They are self-contained eco-friendly units which have their own energy and sewerage and water capture and require little or no heating. I found the program both inspiring and maddening. I thought this guy is an absolute hero, pioneering the building of eco-friendly homes that don’t require the earth to build or to maintain and with little or no reliance on “the grid”. He is putting the power back into the hands of the people. Continue reading »
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Retro Vibe
I am still continuing with this retro vibe for now…just going with the flow of it. I came across this interesting article by Marbeth Schon about New York artists using plastics in the 1940’s especially Armand Winfield who set up a workshop and gallery selling jewlery made by his brother and other artists all encased in plastic. The artists used lots of different materials such as found objects, using bits of shell, mica, jewels, leaves, petals, miniature paintings, glass, foil, wire and fabric. I think the pieces still stand the test of time today as interesting and innovative. It’s funny to think that a material that we take so for granted today and is used for so many items was so exciting and different to those artists back then.
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Yellow Is The Colour, Daffodil
Here is a lovely story I came across on Lea Woodward’s blog called the The Daffodil Principle
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Ideas about Creativity
Creativity Article about creativity by one of my favourite coaches Mark Forster. Read also the comments about creativity by Learning As I Go – he/she is an artist and mentions a really interesting technique for developing and tapping into creative energy using a combination of music, sleep and reading. I am going to try this technique and let you know the results as I go! Has anyone else ever heard of this?
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Nicky Perryman is a Birmingham based Shamanic Energy Field Healer & Creativity Coach. She is also a Textile Artist. This site discusses all aspects of the creative process including practical creativity and healing techniques to facilitate getting in the flow of life more deeply.