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Sustainably Creative by Michael Nobbs

Little and Often

seeing…


…more clearly I think and hope. A few days ago I was asked to take part in the 100 Bloggers project. For my contribution I decided to edit together some posts from here charting this last twelve months since I decided to stop doing and trying. I feel quite shaken by how I suddenly saw more »

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in an emergency…


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spending…


…a lot of time in in my studio staring at my light-fittings. Actually I’ve been doing a lot too. It’s very strange, I always thought that rushing and doing was the way of avoiding feelings and pushing things away. Now I’ve found that moving slowly through my day, doing little bits of this and that, more »

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i’ve been losing…


…a lot of things lately. My favourite pen (a Rotring Art Pen with an extra fine nib), half a credit card (don’t ask), one of the little rubber feet off the bottom of my Powerbook, oh yes, and a relationship that has been central for my life for nearly two years. My credit card company more »

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Ho bloody hum…


…I really thought my Rescue Remedy days were a thing of the past. It seems not. I might be quiet here for a little while.

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n and i…


…followed this blue van nearly all the way to IKEA. Quite comforting to have it in front, not going too slowly, showing us the way. We lost it somewhere the other side of Shrewsbury when we stopped for a much needed cup of tea. I was surprisingly restrained in IKEA, not only having the smaller more »

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the long view…


I’ve always been a very impatient person. I could never wait for anything. I always hunted for my Christmas presents (I still do). No sooner did I have my pocket money in my hot little hands I’d be off buying a comic with it,. Cakes wouldn’t have a chance to cool before I’d be whiping more »

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  • Michael Nobbs

    I'm Michael Nobbs, an artist, blogger and tea drinker (not necessarily in that order).

    I'd like to show you that it is possible to stay creative even when energy is in short supply, and how working on small creative acts on a regular basis can build over time into a substantial body of work (and even a creative career).

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