One of my favourite podcasts is craft sanity. (I also love cast on, sticks and string and creative mom). Anyway, I was listening to Jennifer’s interview with Amanda Blake Soule of SouleMamma and I was truly inspired. During their chat they touched on the concept of being creative with your kids.

So over the weekend I got some supplies out and me & my little girl made a tutu. I remembered an old link on kidley for this no sew tutu tutorial. She really didn’t help much but …..we had fun and we did it together.

I am working a lot at the moment as I need to catch up on some shifts after taking holidays at Christmas.  I have been complaining; but at least I get to use the commute to listen to all of my podcasts that I missed while I was away.

I listen to lots of craft and knitting podcasts and one of my favourites is Craft Sanity.  Jennifer (the podcaster/host)  is a mother of two and a Journalist.  Her podcasts are basically interviews with different people in the craft world.  She has such a knack of getting these people to tell their stories about what they do and what inspires them.

Anyway;  episode 45 was an interview with the author of the book “Craftivity” and was giving a copy away.  Well long story short – I won it. 

I am so pleased.  I have had a package waiting to be collected for some time now and because I didn’t know what it was, I haven’t rushed to get it.  Now I can’t wait to finish work and get to the post office.

Thanks Jennifer for my unexpected new years gift!!! 

I have been listening to a new podcast on my comute to work called The Creative Mom Podcast. It is extremely well thought out and delivered very professionally.
She bushed over a topic in eposide one about the difference between being creative and crafty. It really got me thinking
I called this blog Creative Controller, but am I really creative or just crafty. I dont make anything unique in the sense that I designed it. When knitting, I follow patterns and draw inspiration from others. Am I creative? or Do I just create? Is my creativeness in the choice of patterns and material I use? Is this where creativeness begins? Do we follow patterns to learn skills to then create projects and designs from our own ideas?
To someone that doesn’t knit and likes my completed pieces – am I a creative person or just someone that has a skill and can follow a pattern.