Finding inspiration one page at a time

Last night I was semi productive, ive missed writing. Its like, an old flame coming alive again in my heart. It has been very lonely without that piece of my life. Granted, ive set it aside for other things, but its still a very active part of me. I had a kick where I was browsing those cute little urban overly-advertised riddled magazines. For Seattle, one of the many is city art. Tho that is more classy then Portland's Mercury magazine. They are free, you can usually find them at the ends of stores and artsy fartsy hallways, and they are always full of bands and little quips. Some of those posses very interesting articles that really like to grab a hold of my eye and make me laugh out loud. They also help me feel for a cause that I otherwise had never noticed. Basically, its often the kind of writing I strive for. A kind of humor, that might seem a little twisted. Yet, it grabs the readers eye in such a way, you do not want to put the piece of writing down. So I started snipping, anything to save my writers block curse. For a while now, tho ive just been satisfied with my pieces. I cannot say that I have been proud of them, they have not turned out in a way that I have intended for them. Even the piece I am writing, its so far deeming itself as decent, but I do not have the same self pride for the pieces of writing that I once possessed. Anyways, I used an old photo album that my Mom and Dad gave my sister. She was going to get rid of it, I was surprised seeing as it was signed "Mom and Dad" (my father has been gone for several years). I figured taking it was a sign. Its a really basic scrap book style single paged album, and im convinced that I will put various things in there to inspire me to want to write more, go to more shows. Printing businesses. There is a map of Portland art galleries (I am not familiar b ut would like to be) and find that part of me I let slip between the cracks as life runs away. Well see, on those days I feel less inspired or struggle mentally in creating what I conduct in my head. On those days I feel a little lost but want to create, i will open it up and hope that something that I found in the past will help kick me in the right direction. Until then, ill just keep writing these boring articles, looking for myself in each word. Maybe I should give poetry a try, but I sure do miss the wildfire, free style writing and the ability to write a decent article. Lets see.

Summertime activities to do with children.

Im lucky enough to spend the summer with one of my nephews this year, lets hope it is going to be a blast! Here are some random summer activities we have decided we want to do together: build a go kart with the bike tires (i have two old ones, getting new ones for my bmx and needing two more) he wants a breaking system :) customizable bingo, with his fav characters and ten boards so his friends can play. make out of styrofoam board and pieces too customizable search and make other mario crafts including: make styrofoam character center pieces (like on instructables dot com) paint rocks, let him sell them for a dollar a piece when I go selling my art at different random bazarrs, fairs around town. different characters and silly and mean faces. get those little beads, and let him do coasters with them in 8 and 16 bit pixel characters from his favorite game. Get his fair entry ready, let him make a big project to enter. let him use my old digital camera and do his own stop motion or claymation video. waterbottle raft. cardboard fort out of old record sleeves, or make shelves out of them? OR outdoor fort out of wooden pallets. overhead projector design in his room, let him trace it onto his wall and paint it, or in bathroom too.