Pretend you have the day off from all obligations. The only thing on your to do list is to spend the time on those creative pursuits you always want to enjoy but can’t for whatever reason. That reason doesn’t exist today, so what will you do?
Hmmm, firstly, if I had no obligations (and presumably no one around telling me what to do), I'd make a mess. My creativity of choice being letter writing, I'd take out every pen, pencil, eraser, sticker, note card, stationery, envelope, rubber stamp, glue stick and postage stamp I owned and lay them all out in an organized fashion all over the living room floor, just to do an assessment and really see what I've got. Or more importantly, to see what else I need! I'd shuffle and reshuffle everything, enjoying seeing things I forgot I had, and recognizing the go-to goods I use too often. I'd make random stationery "care packages" for some of my pen pals and set aside some of the good stuff for use with my closest friends.
For lunch I'd make garlic and parmesan angel hair pasta. I'd eat while I wrote so some of my letters might have little spots of olive oil on them. Gross? Or charming?
If I have no obligations today, could I also have unlimited dollars today? I'd hit up Etsy and the USPS online store as well as a craft store or two for card making supplies. Though it technically is an obligation, I recently volunteered through work to make cheerful birthday cards for hospice patients. On this, my day without obligations, I'd take some time out to carefully craft beautifully colourful cards and simple messages of wishes for a wonderful day.
At the end of my day I'd have a basket full of cards and notes and letters ready to be sent out. I will have touched base with everyone I think about so often, and they will be all caught up on what's going on with me lately. I often forget to whom I write what so I'll have carefully logged all my correspondence. I'll gather up my mess and re-store it in the drawers and baskets it all calls home.
3 comments:
what a lovely, fun, joyous way to spend a day without obligations! It's play time!!
Sounds lovely! I think the drops of oil would be wonderful, they would tell the reader how relaxed and happy you were while you wrote. Isn't it sad that my first thought of activity on a day off would be to clean? :-/ I hope I'd be much more creative when and if I ever actually have one.
That sounds like an amazing day. I love the idea of having a nice little basket at the end of the day, full of all of the amazing things you've produced.
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