{"id":333,"date":"2008-07-01T21:43:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T01:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2009-06-29T19:57:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T23:57:41","slug":"tempting-your-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Tempting Your Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cater-woods.com\/quilt-detail.php?RECORD_KEY(quilts)=ID&amp;ID(quilts)=144\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/muse.jpg\" alt=\"Cater-Woods book\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cTo bring an idea to image you need first to have an idea.\u00a0 Cultivating and enhancing your awareness of yourself and your world are essential.\u00a0 Finding the things that make your heart sing and the ideas that rouse your passion is part of the journey of creativity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So starts Laura Cater-Woods&#8217; new self-published book, \u201c<strong>Idea to Image: Tempting Your Muse &#8211; a Guided Studio Workbook.\u201d<\/strong> This 42 page book is not a how-to book, but rather a guide book, designed to be \u201cdipped in and out of, begin at any point and tracked backwards.\u201d\u00a0 It gently directs you to follow your unique journey to see what makes your creativity tick.\u00a0 She encourages the use of a journal, or multiple journals, to record snippets of ideas, big and small.\u00a0 She explains design elements and principals while encouraging your awareness of them.\u00a0 She flows into learning to be in the moment, if even only for certain periods during the day.\u00a0 A variety of exercises are included.\u00a0 The book includes several photos of Laura\u2019s soothing and beautiful work, which seems to echo the calm and quiet encouragement to slow down and take in the world around you.\u00a0 It also includes quotes \u2014 food for additional thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cThe secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting the first one.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Personally &#8230; my muse is often stubborn, and it needs a good kick in the pants to show some life.\u00a0 Then again, I often need a good kick to chill.\u00a0 To relax.\u00a0 To slow down.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve admired Laura&#8217;s work for a long time, and I like curling up in my favorite LaZBoy chair to read and absorb her words and to look at her soothing work.\u00a0 The chair happens to be in my office, and happens to face my computers, ever on and temping me to come over and work just a bit more.\u00a0 Laura&#8217;s book is now on top of one of my journals near my favorite chair.\u00a0 At the end of the day, I&#8217;m on my chair, putting my feet up on my other favorite chair, and I&#8217;m paging through her book.\u00a0 Then I&#8217;m reflecting, sketching, writing, and, can it be?\u00a0 Relaxing?\u00a0 Experiencing a semi-state of happy?\u00a0\u00a0 Good job, Laura!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cater-woods.com\/quilt-detail.php?RECORD_KEY(quilts)=ID&amp;ID(quilts)=144\" target=\"_blank\">Visit Laura&#8217;s site to purchase the book<\/a>.\u00a0 While there, sign up for her free newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo bring an idea to image you need first to have an idea.\u00a0 Cultivating and enhancing your awareness of yourself and your world are essential.\u00a0 Finding the things that make your heart sing and the ideas that rouse your passion is part of the journey of creativity.\u201d So starts Laura Cater-Woods&#8217; new self-published book, \u201cIdea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-gadgetsgood-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}