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Brilliant Decor Ideas
The people of BoredPanda.com have gathered some unique or pretty or funny or creative ideas for how you can either renovate your place or start new, basing the rest of your decorating around an idea shown here. Or maybe it will get your brain going and you’ll think of outside the box things you want to try –
BoredPanda.com – Rokas Laurinavicicius and Paulius Jurgelevicius
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Creativity with Scrap Metal 2
IndiaMART
Jason Heppenstall
I LOVE scrap metal art. It always evokes an emotional response. I want to run my hands over the turtle’s shell. I gawk at the fish. And I grin at the moose. The creativity shown in these amazes me. People ‘see’ an image when one piece or another grabs their interest, and the emerging comes from there. Just fascinating.
Filed under metal art, scrap metal art
Snow Critters 2
Lexi
Luc – Peeping Snowboy
Michaela Koop – Pinterest
Silent Sunday-Annette Beanland-Pinterest
Cristy-@cristy7475.bsky.social
These make me happy just looking at them! Isn’t the creativity of people amazing?
Filed under snow people
Bored?
Open Wings – Cottage Whimsey Quotes – Substack
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I have vague memories of being bored when I was a child, but that’s the last time I ever had that feeling. When I was working full time, being a wife and mother, animal caretaker, and housekeeper, I didn’t have time to be bored. I was too busy trying to keep my head above water.
When I was semi-retired, I was trying to carve out time to spend in my art room, where I could learn new techniques, trying to make more things to list on my own website, Creative Artworks, for years, and then Etsy. During that time, I was also trying to get Square Foot Gardening to work, including building and maintaining a greenhouse, learning to mix up soil alternative, keeping the plants fed, weeded and watered, etc., then harvesting our ‘crop.’ I was also taking over more and more of the yardwork, plus taking over things my husband had formerly done, such as programming the automatic watering systems in the well house.
With our full retirement and move to Thailand, I can honestly say that I never have enough time and energy to accomplish what I would like to do on a given day. I’m NEVER bored.
I move from one fun thing or chore to another, trying to vary sedentary stuff with movement, and purely joyful stuff with more challenging things. I try to keep a good mix and just keep going until I’m out of time or energy, call it a day, and then start again where I left off the next day.
I guess curiosity is at the base of not being bored. I love playing on the c0mputer, trying to find out answers to my questions or find things I want to share. I was planning to paint one of my sketches today, but I’m also needing to put in some time super stretching to get rid of some painful muscles in my back. I only have about an hour to do both, plus get my dry things gathered off my balcony. And my poor puzzle awaits – neglected.
Being enthusiastic about being in a country new to me, with customs to learn, finding out what’s happening each month and deciding which to try to participate in, trying to learn phrases in a new language, and more is a full time activity by itself.
I hope y0u never lose your curiosity and enthusiasm for the life you have. There is only so much time to try to cram joy into your life. You need to be conscientious about it or the day will pass and you won’t be able to savor one thing that made you smile.
Filed under Attitude
Doors 2
“Be an opener of doors.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Knock Knock” – Robert Fawcett – Fine Art America
“But…books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners. Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch. And some of them―the best ones―are doors.” ~ Lauren Oliver
photoprint – LaPortell – Erin Berzel – Art.com
“When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.” ~ Napoleon Hill
Door – Pinterest – Unknown
“Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!” ~ Max Lucado
Filed under doors, When Wood Comes Alive
Artistic Pottery
Wave Bowl – Wikipedia
These simply take my breath away. I love the creativity and expertise shown in these designs.
Kate Malone – The Art Teacher
Pinterest – no attribution
Springfield Museums
eBay
Filed under Clay Art
Thoughts on Thursday 8-18-2025
Carol
“Celebrating my life for everything that it is” includes being grateful that I can visit my husband, hug and kiss him, tell him I’m glad to see him, and be happy that he’s not hurting, even though he wasn’t cooperating with the nurse on taking his medicines and made little sense when we visited today.
It also includes the fact that on the way home from the visit, we went to an arts and crafts store called, “Chunya Art & Craft” where everything in the store was handmade by the owner/artist.
I bought two things: a handmade notebook and a tablecloth.
The photo doesn’t do the notebook justice. The painting on the front is very subtle, but shows an elephant with a beautiful cloth on his back walking in dense jungle of green, blue and purple. The rope that ties the pages together is done in an intricate, lacy pattern that allows you to open the book, lay it flat. I thinks it’s wonderful.
The tablecloth is batik. The card that came with it says, “Each piece of Batik painting has a unique feel as a result of endless combinations of the dye coloring., wax effects, the fabric typs, and most importantly the story-telling of love and joy we want to pass on. Hope you love our Batik!” – Nisa C. Tanakorn.
I think it’s a work of art. I LOVE the way it brightens up the whole end of the room.
The owner/artist of the shop could not have been nicer to us. She answered questions and was honestly thrilled I was so happy with my purchases. I can’t recommend her shop more highly. I left a review with pictures on Google Maps that I hope will send more appreciative customers her way.
I’m getting my place ready for my housekeeper to come tomorrow. I’ve changed the sheets, will change out the towels and empty the trash, trying not to leave a mess (other than my puzzle table, where there is only so much I can do to neaten it up.)
I’ve been sketching, working on the puzzle a bit, and reading, since I haven’t been able to get to my computer until now because it was in the middle of doing an upgrade. It turned out that it didn’t work the way it should and Brian said he would try to get it to work again later.
This has been a good day. We’ll share some dinner soon and then I’ll enjoy listening to music on YouTube. I like it that I can use the remote on my TV to request music by people I like or want to hear for the first time, just relaxing with my headphones so I don’t bother anyone. 😁
Filed under Thoughts on a ________
Making it Mine
I showed you the painting I chose as the first art for my condo. I looked up Kaew to find out more about the artist. I love supporting local people, and I fell in love with this painting.
“My name is Saengkaew Bongkotmat, but you can call me “Kaew” which you will see signed on all the paintings. I was born in Krabi province, Thailand on August 22, 1975. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in education technology and I studied art as a minor, also. I like painting when I was young. After University, I worked in business, but was not happy. I was making money but not finding fulfillment in my work. Because of the unhappiness in my business life. I returned to painting full-time about 10 years ago, and discovered that this is really me. I began selling my art at the Chiang Mai Night Market, and now have a gallery and art shop in The Old City. Art is my passion and now my full-time job. My goal is to capture Thai culture in the style of my paintings. I intend to continue my best artistic work, and improve my painting.“
I think maybe it was his wife who packaged the painting for us so well. This is a small family shop exquisitely arranged to grab your interest and delight the senses the minute you enter.
Brian and I discussed where to hang the painting. I immediately chose what I thought was the perfect spot on the wall behind the sofa, where the wall has a section with the same rectangular shape. Brian thought the hanger wasn’t as secure as we would like, and so switched it to the spot where I posted the pics. (He then said THAT hanger wasn’t very secure, either.)
One of the things keeping me up last night was the placement of my very first purchased original painting. Today I have moved the painting to the spot I think is where it should live – celebrating the beauty of the busy, robust, creative, and colorful Thailand street.
Kaew captured one of the many things I love about Chiang Mai. I smile each time I raise the shades showing my wonderful views of the buildings and the streets and shops below. Now I have an original artist’s creation on my wall where I can celebrate the country and its people – shades up or down!
Filed under Personalizing Your Home
Lamp People
Again the creativity of people makes me smile – just fills me up and leaves me in awe.
Filed under Art From Found Things
Snow People Community 3
freshpatio.com
freshpatio.com
lifeasmama.com
lifeasmama.com
Filed under Seasons, snow people
Snowpeople Community
freshpatio.com
freshpatio.com
freshpatio.com
freshpatio.com
Filed under Seasons, snow people
“Becorns” 3
Filed under acorn art, David M. Bird "Becorns"
Imagination, Vision, and Talent
“Rabbit-ballet-requires-focus-and-willpower-because-the-tutus-are-delicious.” – chalk-art-by-David-Zinn-edited
I love the art created by David Zinn, but I’m even more delighted by his vision. When most people look at the place where the wall meets a sidewalk, they see the weed growing. The fastidious among us might bend over and pull the weed, or think that the weed should be sprayed with weed killer.
David Zinn sees a rabbit wearing a ‘delicious’ tutu, practicing a dance pose. And he stops to draw the sweet rabbit so that others can share his vision.
This is what makes me remain hopeful. I love sharing the same planet as a man who thinks like this.
Filed under Creativity, David Zinn - Street Artist, Delightful Surprises, drawings
Cal’s Creative Street Art
Cal – Street Art – BoredPanda.com – article by Rokas Laurinavicius and Auteja Akavickaite
Filed under Cal - Street Art, drawings
Street Art by Cal
Cal – Street Art – Article on BoredPanda.com by Rokas Laurinavicius and Auteja Akavickaite
Filed under Cal - Street Art, drawings
Put a Cork in It
Filed under Cork Art
A Fun Idea for the Future
Filed under Creativity
Creativity
I just love it that people will create a new art form, then others will look at it with fresh eyes, turn it on its ear and build something entirely different. Each person looks, sees it differently, considers other possibilities, decides to add a new focus, another medium, a unique style.
I go back and look at the same art form I thought was wonderful the first time I saw it, finding that it has GROWN since I found images the last time. It’s become even more interesting, more creative….
I love living on this planet where human imagination is limitless!
Filed under Creativity
Terrific Totes 4
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Terrific Totes 3
Filed under tote bags
Creative Art from Found Things
Filed under Art From Found Things
Skeleton Fun
Filed under Creativity, Skeleton Art
Look at THIS Beauty!
I think this is gorgeous. It really makes my juices start to flow. I LOVE the wonderful 3-dimensional-ness of the piece, the colors, everything.
Filed under Creativity
Jack-o-Lantern Creativity
“Found” Fun
Filed under Art From Found Things
Photography and Peanuts 2
Nailia Schwarz, artist/photographer – beautiful combination!
fineartamerica.com
Joyous Jurga Martin Art
I’m in awe of this artist’s talent. The children’s poses are so unique to sculpture. The whole feel of the artwork is love and caring.
Filed under sculpture