idealog
All sorts of creative, writing, note-making, adventure, craft projects, prompts, challenges, hobbies, gifting, time fillers, and art-related products, ideas, and tips. There is nothing automated here, so you'll have to manually check back.
getting started / lists
Getting stARTed - Art styles - Ephemera / found objects - Happy mail - Hobbies - Per diem - Texture - Things to make lists of - Things to make lists of, to then go and do
idea collections (misc)
Collage - Covers - Create - Culture - Cut and cover and reveal - Entry ways - Fillerup and future - Fun and gamify - Geometric art - Homestyle - Learn - Lost, found, rebound - Makes - Map quest - Mini art - Mixed me - Monkey see, monkey do - Old and new - Papery - Seeds - The nature of things (you make with nature) - Things to make and do (Misc) - Upcycle - Up-shirt
adventure / experience
Adventure local - Bites - Box / Frame - Cultural trappings - Exploration - Letter walk about - Nations - Once that, and now what - Physical and digital travelogues - Postcards - Postcards from the edge - Ticket to ride - Try a sensory experience - Walker - Walk this earth, and every other
alphabet games
Alphabetter - By any other name - Cloudy with a chance of letters - Letterally - Thematicalist - The spirit of the letter of the law
articles
Blank it - Body break - Itemised - Note-able - Prep step - Taking note
art things
3D - Art attack - Art / Craft - Artist trading cards (ATCs) - Canson art board (review/tips) - Draw - Experiments in calligraphy - Exquisite doodle - Fill watercolour pans (with other things) - Five by five - Gel plates - Glass - Lightfastness - Monochromes - Multitexture - (No) buckle up - Paint skins - PanPastels (cleaning and applicators) - PanPastel swatches - Paper piles - Paper played - Portraits - Postcards - Quilling - Random art tips - Re-masterpiece - Sculpt - Sculpture - Sculptmobile - Seepage? No seepage! - Shadows - Shape art - Sight unseen - Still life - Surface cleaning - Texture - T'Gaal sharpener (review/tips) - The gel medium is the message - Thin - Wall art / Quilt
art / visual journal
Art/visual journal page - A day in the life - Blackout and about - Comfort foods - Cup o’ comfort - Cut and placed - Favourite things (art journal page) - Music maker - Picture and words - Playdate - Silhouettes - State of the art
audial
Album arted - Audible - Lyricart - Now hear this - Play with playlists - Song lyrics - Song prompts - Using only song titles from one artist answer - Your cover
bio
100 things about me (or, rather, you) - 5 things I - Al-ME-nac - Apocalist - Bernard Pivot’s and James Lipton’s questionnaire - Bio - Bucket list manifesto - Constrained biography - Currents - Dopamine menu - Favourites - Fill in the blanks - Firsts - Get to know you - Guide me - I am - Hang 10 (or wahtever number prefer - Five things - I believe - If I were - I prefer - Me-saic - Nurture your nature - Questions - Quiet - Reasons - Setback in the saddle again - Solo - Sugar shack - Things I am going to do - Things to be happy about - When did I last - Wisdom
book(ish) / reading
Altered book art - Artist’s book - Book notes - Bookmarkitdown and save it for later - Bookmarks - By the book nook - Chairman of the board book - Compendium - Concertina - Flipbook - Functional bookmarks - Making books - Quote catchers - Rebook - Read-a-thon - Re-magazine - To be read pile - Under the covers - Upcycle / Found - We got ourselves a reader
challenges
30-day getting to know you challenge - 30-day language learning challenge - 30-day poetry challenge - 30-day story-writing challenge - 30-day writing challenge - Challenge - Prompted
collage
About - Bookery - Collage maps - Collage postcards - Collagery - Ephemera - ‘Scapes - Wordy - Collage (Etc)
colour
Colour book - Colourbox - Colour concentrate - Colour-less - Colour wheels/Palettes - Kaleidoscope - Kick it up a swatch - Out there
favourites
Favourite Quotations Day - Favourites - What to do with a few of your favourite things (Etc)
found
Found - Photographic scavenger hunt - Treasure hunt - Walk decor jar - What you find along the way
gifting
Adventure Jar - Bookworm Jar - Cooking Jar - Creative Jar - Date Night Jar - Fun Jar - Future goals/dreams Jar - Gratitude Jar - Journal Jar - Movie Night Jar - Self-care Jar - Words Jar - Gifting - Gift it - Loot bag - Sticker shock - Stickers
groupie
Art is other people - Groupie - Others
journal junk
Collections - Commonplace book - Daily journal junk - Documented - Entries - General journal junk - Making a list - More journal junk - Quadratics - Question period - Response poem - Roll 'em - The lure of the lost
makerspace / oddjects
Analogue bag - Beadery - Bits and pieces - Button button - Charmed - Chipper - Coasters - Collection chronicles - Collective capsules - Door to door - Fleurs - Found - Found object/ephemera mosaic - Found object sculpture - Hand-carved stamps - Heirlooms - saving things that can’t be saved - If I could save time, and everything else, in a bottle - Jewelle-re - Lamps and lanterns - Little bitty pretty things - Magnetic poetry - Makerspace - Ornamental - Never throw anything away: here’s why - Ordinary ways - Mosaic / Resin - Shadow box - Tapestry - Things to do with things (Misc) - Trash is treasure - We will rock you
over time
By weekly - Colouring book - Date and time - Do it - Every day change - It’s temp-ting - Memory Lane - Moving pictures - Over time - Sidewalk chalk talk - Silhouettes journal - Swatch book - Verse visual - Vision boards and Mind maps - Years in scrapbook - Year verse
photo / video
A book, z zine, something in between - Altered state - Bigger picture - Body shots - Camera toss - Cut up / Build up - Director’s cut - Expired film soup - Filmy - Flicks - Image it - Lumen - Metamorphoto - Micromentaries - On it - Phot-oh no! - Picture book - Picture this - Polaroid grids - Redirectional - Same old, same old, or not - Scan print scan print sc… - See, saw - Shutterbug - Shutter share - The ‘grams - The watcher - Triptography - Us and them and that - Vid-e-oh - Vision quest - Wrecking crew
printmaking
Boiled book - Frottage - Going to pound town (blame Tal) - Sculptural printmaking - Stencil monotypes - Trace monotypes
upcycle
Re-new - Re-shirt - Shirty - Type sets - Upcycle the ugly
water media
Abstract watercolour exploration - Abstract watercolour landscapes - Float - Scumbling - Sew, what? - Touched - Watercolour abstracts - Watercolour blocks - Watercolourfield - Watercolour on yupo - Watercolour pouring - Watercolour printmaking - Watercolour veils - Watercolour washes - Waterworks
word up
100 words - Ask me ask me ask me - Associations - Choose - Dictionary - Emotional re-skew - Epistles - Five word stories - Found poetry - Like cut up without the cutting up - Lipograms - One word - Poetic - Poetry in motion - Promotion - Six word stories - Speak and spell - The lyrical - Thingies - Translation telephone - Up words - Versaying - What’s the plan, man? - What’s the word? - Manipul8 - Write on
misc.
Biographake - Black out - Build - Cast - Constraint ain’t a deal breaker - Erasure - Favourites Day - Glitch - Gratitude - In your pocket - It’s a stick up - Little sticky - Mapmaker - Mount - Nostalgia - Page - Prompts - Patches - Quote art - Recipieces - Scanner - Scratch paper - Smudge - Spinal tap - Studies - Tearitorial - This'n'thatlas - Threads - Tis the season - Vegetataion - What a tangled web we weave - What’s in a name? - What’s the phrase? - Word cloud - Words - Wrapped up
creative idea of the day
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