A friend posted:
"What time-consuming but creative thing did you do as a child/teen?" She gave the example of her daughter and friends creating a mystery movie, complete with dramatic cuts, etc. And of her own childhood where she harmonized with herself using two tape players, and also created fake interviews where the answers were all lines from songs (sourcing from a phonograph with records!)
So, other than practicing my flute, taking flute lessons, practicing some more, being in the band, and sometimes playing just for the fun of it -- oh, and choir, too-- here's a quick [maybe] summary.
(I've posted some of these photos before.)
- Drew.
part of a colored-pencil picture - Crafted things. Anything. Clay, paper, glue, beads, jewelry...)
- Painted or colored by numbers (mostly of dogs but also The Monkees).
- Painted and assembled models of World War I aircraft.
- Role-playing with friends; you know: cowboys and Indians (or bad guys), superheroes, pirates, army...
- Art Club in junior high. (High school was too full of band, choir, speech and debate, drama club and involvement in performances (as long as that was available) and creative writing club.)
- Sewed.
- Wrote tiny bits of short stories. Mostly never finished any until I started making a serious effort late in high school, I think.
(In 4th grade, got a bad grade on one paper where the assignment was to write about “if I were president“ because I went all nonsense, letting my imagination run wild as a fourth grader who wasn’t very happy with that particular class. (I never said anything about the teacher. I did say that I would do away with all schools. A long long time before I heard “hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!“) She said, "that's a bit silly, isn't it?" I thought, well, duh... (although "duh" wasn't invented yet). Funny: after that, she became the school librarian instead of a teacher, and she was a wonderful wonderful elementary school librarian! My other teachers usually loved my writing.)
I still love doing all those things. But then, you know, photography, dog agility, blogging, facebook, ...
What time-consuming but creative thing did you do as a child/teen?
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| Years after, remnants of a shirt I sewed as a HS sophomore. |
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| Ceramic trivets, jr. high |
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| Late elementary school years -- I painted this computer, complete with little lights (or pushbuttons) and maybe blinking displays for Bad and Good? I had actually seen a tape drive. (The box, which Dad built for us, is not distorted; that's a trick of the angle and the lighting.) |
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| High school I think. |
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| '90s era |
What I've mostly concentrated on in the 2000s: My photography.
Ellen - note to self -- there's an HTML comment embedded from here XX to here xx.
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