the Creative Experience: Project 3

Project 3: An Ode to Grey

For our next project prompt we are going to give a lot of room for interpretation and just begin with a color: grey.

We chose this color because we are entering into what is arguably the only rainy season in Colorado and one of the most welcome periods of grey skies, knowing they usher in the spring. Also, we are in anticipation mode for the birth of @lizjoylewis’s second child, Greyson, or baby Grey.

Show us your ode to grey in any format you like. Paint it, photograph it, sing it, write it, film it.

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For project 3 I took a photo I have already used and played with photo editing. Other than brightening a photo, I've never tweaked them before, so I took time to make it look as grey as I could.

"Grey Skies"

I have another project that I'm working on for our "Ode to Grey" theme. Once it's finished, I'll post it. Oh and if you're wondering what happened to project 2....well, it's still being worked on. Ha!!

If you'd like to see the other projects being done by my creative friends, go to our blog, here!

for the love of creativity

I've been creative mindercising* lately. I've been excavating my creativity that I buried many, many, MANY moons ago. As I've been on this excavation process I have found that in the last month I keep seeing the world in snapshots. I'll be driving, walking, talking, working, or even taking the bus and I'll see something that catches my eye and in a flash it turns into a mental photograph. I also find myself to be constantly saying, "that would be an amazing photo."

I love photography. I love going on photography adventures in hopes that I'll stumble upon something that speaks to my soul.

Photography for me is therapeutic. Since I've been having this yearning to capture snapshots of the world around me, I thought to myself that my 4th Sunday Home Group** will be spent alone with Jesus and a camera. I'm planning to, not plan, and to not have any idea of what I think I should find or what would be an epic photo; but rather, to see where the Lord leads me, in hopes to see the world through His lens. I'm going to GO! and keep my heart, mind and spirit OPEN to what the Lord will show me.

Side Note: I'd like to give a shout out to Ray Rushing***, AMAZING photographer extraordinaire for lending me one of his Nikons, (or maybe I should say...trusting me with), to use for my creative outlet over the next few weeks.


Here's an example of one of those snapshots I see on a daily basis. I pass this particular spot often when I'm traveling back and forth from my Y office to our schools or the Boulder Y office. Yesterday it was dark and gloomy as the clouds were rolling in over the mountains full of fluffy white flakes. Something about it made me want to stop and just reflect for a moment. So, for once, I did just that. Stopped and looked. The only camera I had on me at the time was my camera phone, but I still felt compelled to take the photo. Something about the spot spoke to my spirit and wanted me to pause, and pray.

Then today, when running into Boulder, I came upon the same spot I see often and it looked completely different. It wasn't telling the same story. So, again, I pulled over and took a quick snapshot to remember what I was seeing today.

And that's one of the reasons I love photography. It takes a moment in time that will never happen again and captures it to be immortalized through a one of a kind photo. So, this will be my main creative outlet for the next month or two, or until I feel its time to move on to my next creative medium.

Here's to creative mindercising and getting arty*!

* Thanks Julia for the witty naming of our journey toward a creative mind! Your words are a creative experience in themselves.
**Origins does not have an in house service on the last Sunday of the month, but rather we gather in homes to love on each other and build our community. I have chosen to use said days, for the time being, to be alone with the Lord. Something I hardly ever do. But, this is my attempt to Raelynn date days with THE Big Guns. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
*** Ray Rushing's webpage can be found by clicking, here!!

a "p.s." & "by the way"

p.s.

You'll more than likely see some Creative Projects popping up on my blog from time to time as some other creative types and I have decided to get the creativity juices flowin'.

I'll do my best to post the projects here when I can!

by the way

we had a worship meeting/dinner/practice/dream gathering of sorts tonight. we discussed the things we'd like to try more often and be confident in as a team and personally. because of that, Aaron thought it would be great if we took a psalm and sang it to a random melody the Firle was playing so we could get used to singing freely by learning to follow the melody. when the iPhone (yes, we're that hip) headed my way with my verse I almost passed it on...but instead, gathered that courage and just did it. Another step at punching intimidation in the face.

Raelynn = 2, Intimidation =0

I'm starting to find my way more and more everyday. I'm quite enjoying it.

the Creative Experience: Project 1

Project 1: MAKE A FLIER OF YOUR DAY

Write a paragraph describing a typical day in
your life. Make one hundred Xerox fliers of the description (you don't
have to include your name) and post them all over your neighborhood.

D O C U M E N T A T I O N >

Take a picture of the flier and a photo of one of them posted in your neighborhood.

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A TYPICAL Day:
Also affectionately known as, a day in the crazy, random, sometimes stressful yet exciting life of THE Raelynn

Unfortunately, my alarm starts its horrible *beeping so that the neighbors can hear* process right around 645am. Boo to you alarm. Boo. To. You! Though I don’t want to, I force myself out of bed by 705am and begin the morning routine:
wash face,
make breakfast, drink morning tea,
put on really loud music and dance around house whilst getting dressed,
brush teeth, comb hair,
continue dancing/singing around house,
notice the time :: F! I’m late::,
run to the bus…
Dash, to the Jump, to the Y

Y…oh the Y. Why the Y? Why? Here my day consists of being underpaid, overworked, screamed at by entitled helicopter parents, micro-managed, put through the ringer, a few breaks with some enjoyable co-workers who make me laugh with a lunch in the middle where I will be “up in the gym just workin’ on my fitness.” I have witnesses. Yet, as much as the Y drives me batty, I also love knowing our main goal is to help families who really need us. (Insert tear here!)
And then finally, Yabba dabba doo it’s time to head home!!!!
Jump, to the Dash, to home*
*(or to hanging with fun friends where lots of goodness will be had!)

Home, I love you home; especially after a long grueling day at the Y. In the evening I have a multitude of activities:
Bad for me t.v.,
Making dinner
Singing/dancing
At some point I will begin the “oh so loved” social networking process:
Blogging, facebooking, tweeting,
internet perusing, and now iPhone-ing
At evening’s end I will quiet my mind with one or all of the following activities:
Knitting, painting, writing, picture looking
Reading, journaling
And finally, bed time prayer

Wash face, brush teeth and then: Nighty Night. We shall begin again tomorrow!!!!