Flame Opal News & Random Thoughts — glass beads

Most people take their annual leave and go somewhere nice - I buy a new tool and go and play! The challenge is making sure the results end up on the website and not in my jewellery box...

I came across an article by Elizabeth Gilbert this week which caught my eye because of the following quote: "If you have a creative mind, it’s a little bit like owning a border collie. You have to give it something to do or it will find something to do, and you will not like the thing it finds to do." She is absolutely right.  You can read the full article using the link at the bottom of this blog, but it goes on to rightly dispel some of the common myths about creativity.  This includes the notion that only certain 'special' people...