DreamingDilettante.com @thedreamingdilettante - Tumblr Blog

Posts

Creative Podcast: Wednesday February 20, 2019

Daily Creative Podcast

Podcast Episode: Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Organizing the creative corner and staying offline most of the day.

My newest YouTube video can be found right here.

You can subscribe to my newsletter here.

My online shop can be found right here.

Andrea Chapman’s Sewspire Patreon can be found right here.

Until Next time… -Michele Fawcett, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Feb-20.m4a

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Android | RSS

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/arrangement-2264812_1920-300x185.jpg', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/?p=4711'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Creative Podcast: Tuesday February 19, 2019

Daily Creative Podcast

Podcast Episode: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

A quick update on my latest creative projects.

My newest YouTube video can be found right here.

You can subscribe to my newsletter here.

My online shop can be found right here.

Until Next time… -Michele Fawcett, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Feb19.m4a

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Android | RSS

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/blank-792125_1920-300x200.jpg', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/2019/02/19/creative-podcast-tuesday-february-19-2019/'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Creative Podcast: Monday February 18, 2019

Daily Creative Podcast

Podcast Episode: Monday, February 18, 2019

Back and hopefully all the bugs are fixed and you can hear me 🙂

My newest YouTube video can be found right here.

You can subscribe to my newsletter here.

My online shop can be found right here.

Andrea Chapman’s Sewspire Patreon can be found right here.

Until Next time… -Michele Fawcett, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Feb18.m4a

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Android | RSS

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG_4019-225x300.jpg', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/?p=4705'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Hello, Hello? Can Anyone Here Me?

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you all have had a wonderful week thus far. I have been busy finishing up my custom designed bag and apparently recording podcasts with now sound. Ah, well technology. Apparently, my phone case somehow was blocking the speaker and while the record button was doing it’s thing and I was chatting away no sound can be heard.

I am very grateful for my amazing quality control expert who immediately alerted me to the issue. Fortunately, he works for free since, well we’re married. (thanks honey)

So sadly the podcasts are forever lost and I couldn’t begin to remember what I chatted about so with any luck we can start fresh and clear with the next one. C’est la vie!

As for my creative projects if you follow me on Instagram you saw the cute little fairy I made my eldest daughter for Valentine’s Day and my completed Creative Living Bag. I have some fun videos coming up soon sharing the bag and maybe even what I am going to be carrying around in it. Right now the new ideas are flowing and I am working on an idea board to hold them all on. While I really love my work junk journal I think a visual display of my ideas would be fun and help me out on those days I want to create but just can’t seem to find any inspiration.

This weekend my goal is to finish (or at least come close to finishing) my latest junk journal. It’s a gorgeous hardcover book that I really cannot wait to share. I am still debating on whether or not I want to offer it for sale or keep it for myself. I do know that I have a garden junk journal in the works that I am most definitely going to keep for myself so maybe I will end up letting this one go.

So that is my week all tied up in a pretty bow. I hope you are looking forward to some creative time this weekend and I will see you back at the creative corner next week.

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_5657-225x300.jpg', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/?p=4700'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

My kids are having a blast today making Valentines gifts for everyone in our family. I decided to join in and make this little fairy for my daughter. I am pretty much addicted to these now lol I used a tutorial from The Untidy Artist in YouTube. #crafts #fairies #handmade https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt4C2ILhGxR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xa30cnqjrnm6

#crafts #fairies #handmade

A bag photographer I am not but I am totally in love with this bag I made and designed. I used an old pair of jeans and upcycled them into my Creative Living Bag-a feat made possible by Andrea of @sewspire and her wonderful AMC Masterclass over on Patreon. I will be doing a video sharing the details of the bag and maybe one showing you what I end up stuffing I side. For now I chat about it in today’s Creative Podcast over on my blog (link in profile). #sew #bagmaker #upcycled #podcast #creativeliving #creativepodcast https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt3uENYh8Ar/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ecjefcx4i7l4

#sew #bagmaker #upcycled #podcast #creativeliving #creativepodcast

Creative Podcast: Thursday February 14, 2018

Daily Creative Podcast

Podcast Episode: Thursday, February 14, 2019

Sitting with my baby girl that did not want to go to sleep (but she did and slept for 6 hours for the first time WOOOHOO!), a completed project and more projects to come.

My newest YouTube video can be found right here.

You can subscribe to my newsletter here.

My online shop can be found right here.

Andrea Chapman’s Sewspire Patreon can be found right here.

Until Next time… -Michele Fawcett, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/New-Recording-2.m4a

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Android | RSS

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_5657-225x300.jpg', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/?p=4695'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Bags, Books and Being Creative

My cat Oliver testing out my bag’s use as a cat bed 🙂

I am sitting here on a snowy day catching up on some housework. I was lucky enough to spend most of the weekend working on my homework for Andrea Chapman’s class AMC Master Class. (If you love to sew please check out Andrea’s work. She is the nicest lady and so incredibly talented!)

I don’t think I have ever had this much fun sewing before. Unless you count sewing on paper I really enjoy that.

For me, the best creative energy I find is when I have no specific instruction and I am just having a play. The basic bag construction was well thought out, drawn out, made out of a prototype-then completely changed. What I didn’t take into consideration was how thick the bag would become with a denim body and flap and it was just more than my machine could do. So, I did what I do best-think on the fly and adapt.

The bag now has no flap, really cute pockets and hook and loop tape closure. It’s not totally finished as I have some tweaks but I will definitely share a video of it when it’s all done.

I also discovered a love for upcycling and I think you will be seeing a lot more of that in my work. I have always used recycled materials in my junk journals-the covers and elements but sewing with recycled elements is crazy fun.

Ok, I might need to get out a little more but really you’re creative you get it right?

So of course-since, my bag is called my “Creative Living Bag” I decided that it needs to have a journal to go inside it. I am going to make it out of denim as well and I think a recycled cover would work well. Now do I want a travelers notebook or a bound notebook? I have to be honest I love the idea of travelers notebooks but I rarely finish them. I am thinking a nicely bound notebook would be great for the bag. Or maybe both 🙂

Of course, the ideas are endless-I could make a matching pencil case…..I could make a matching pencil case.

Alright, I will spare you any more time inside my creative mind. Please do comment and let me know what projects you are loving right now. Perhaps we can fuel each other’s inner dilettante 🙂

Much love!

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_5646.jpg', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/?p=4691'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Creative Podcast: Tuesday February 12, 2019

Daily Creative Podcast

Podcast Episode: Tuesday, February 12, 2019

A snowy day and thinking about the creative process. Sharing what I have been working on and my plans for some new projects.

My newest YouTube video can be found right here.

You can subscribe to my newsletter here.

My online shop can be found right here.

Andrea Chapman’s Sewspire Patreon can be found right here.

Until Next time… -Michele Fawcett, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/New-Recording.m4a

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Android | RSS

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/owl-3184032_1920-300x220.jpg', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/?p=4687'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Writing Practice

I am trying to write a lot more lately. The joy I have felt while writing lately has been so amazing that my commitment to my daily practice of it no longer feels like work. I am not sure if it’s the stories I am writing which are fiction and magical and fun or if it’s that I have finally connected with the essence of the craft.

Either way, I am grateful.

My goal is to do just a bit each day with the few projects I have going. To take the time to write, even just a few words and feel the energy of my characters. The end of last year I wrote the first book of a new series in just around 3 months by simply writing 2 1/2 pages each night. That single act inspired me more than any process, commitment or effort to force myself into a writing habit ever did.

I’m currently working on 2 works of fiction one is book #2 of the series I mentioned above and the other is a brand new book. The character just popped into my head one day and I just couldn’t wait to write her. I must admit that Ms. Alice is really fun to play with.

My Mary book is not done but she has taken a definite turn and I am just riding the wave. To be honest I can’t help but wonder if the book came to me at a time when I needed it and finishing it with the intent to publish isn’t necessary. I’m keeping an open mind and planning to chip away as I can.

I decided to harness the energy of the new moon and set my intentions for writing this week. I didn’t get to my stories today but I think I am ok with making up the pages tomorrow. Reminding myself it’s not about perfection but about the work helps and I think I can give myself some ebb and flow.

Writing here on the blog is very important to me. I want to build energy around this space so that it feels like it’s my own little container of creative juice so I am hoping to have a little something to say here most days, even if it’s just saying hi.

What are you working on? I would love to hear about it! Please comment below and share your current project (or projects).

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/blank-792125_1920-300x200.jpg', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/?p=4679'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Creative Podcast: Wednesday February 6, 2018

Daily Creative Podcast

Podcast Episode: Wednesday February 6, 2019

Sewing, designing and my love for purses.

My newest YouTube video can be found right here.

You can subscribe to my newsletter here.

My online shop can be found right here.

Andrea Chapman’s Sewspire Patreon can be found right here.

Until Next time… -Michele Fawcett, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Feb-6.m4a

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Android | RSS

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/sew-681155_1920-300x199.jpg', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/?p=4683'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Creative Podcast: Tuesday February 5, 2018

Daily Creative Podcast

Podcast Episode: Tuesday February 5, 2019

Thinking about rhythms and recognizing the beauty in the rest.

My newest YouTube video can be found right here.

You can subscribe to my newsletter here.

My online shop can be found right here.

Until Next time… -Michele Fawcett, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

Share List

SGMB_URL = "https://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 4, '', 'https://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder//img/no-image.png', '', ''); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Creative Podcast: Monday February 4, 2019

Daily Creative Podcast

Podcast Episode: Monday February 4, 2019

Back with the daily podcasts and thinking of the moon.

My newest YouTube video can be found right here.

You can subscribe to my newsletter here.

My online shop can be found right here.

Until Next time… -Michele Fawcett, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Feb-4.m4a

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Android | RSS

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gothic-2910057_1920-300x220.jpg', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/?p=4670'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Working with the Moon

I have started working with moon energy. This was something I had tried last year but I just really couldn’t get my head around it. I love astrology and have, over the years, studied it in various ways but to be honest it tends to confuse me. Houses and nodes and voids-yep it’s way too much for me to feel like I can use it to best plan out my creativity and make plans for my dreams.

I have talked on my podcasts how I know I am moon sensitive. I often times feel the energy of the moon pull me in one way or another and as of yet, I haven’t been able to find any rhyme or reason for the flow of energy. I know it’s there, hidden beneath the light of a full moon or in the shadows of the new, I just haven’t been able to understand it as of yet.

I have noticed however that if there is a bad time in the month for me to have committed to a large gathering I will do it and oftentimes I am unprepared for the high creative energy when it hits me.

I have tried charting in those pretty circle graphs but I feel like there is just not enough room and even if there is I find it so hard to identify and type of rhythm or path from words. I have found a new online resource from a really love creative and I think it might contain the pieces of my little-hidden puzzle.

So starting with yesterday’s New Moon I have begun charting starting first with the moon’s phase and where it is falling in the stars. That coupled with the information on each sign I gathered from Hali’s class (she offers a snippet free to subscribers) I am hoping to be able to design my own little reference chart.

So if I were to say feel anxious one day, I can look and see where the moon is currently hanging out and take note. If I have one of those rock-it days I can also look and see where the moon is hanging out. While I am writing this the moon is waning and hanging out in Sagittarius and it’s making me very cranky and irritable. Everything feels like nails on a chalkboard the world, in general, feels like it is all garnering for my attention all at once and all I really want to do is sit in the dark and listen to quiet.

Of course, there is no quiet with Sagittarius. I’m not speaking from any astrological knowledge just my personal experience with the Sun Sign version 😉

So it’s a fun experiment that I hope will help me identify the best times to go full on with my creativity, taking Action with it and then the times when I should perhaps sit quietly, thinking about my work or perhaps focus my attention on making sure my home is in order so I can best create when the moon moves to its next phase.

If you have any interest (or information to share) please comment below or email me. I would love to hear about it and perhaps journey with some others for a few dances to the moon.

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gothic-2910057_1920-300x220.jpg', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/?p=4665'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Word of the Year 2019

I love to research. I don’t know about you but when I get interested or excited about something I delve in completely. I can spend hours researching, reading and watching videos learning all about my latest passion. It’s an enthusiasm I see in my children and I must say I am really happy to have held onto that excitement from my youth. It seems many adults move into a practical mode and slow themselves down when an idea occurs to them or at the very least dial back their enthusiasm on the outside.

I have noticed that my love for learning can often be a double-edged sword when it comes to creativity. You can get lost in the researching of the book and pretty soon it just becomes an excuse to not write the book. After all how much do you have to learn? When is there ever enough knowledge to write about something?

Since I began to notice just how much time I spent researching and thinking I began to wonder if I wasn’t avoiding my work just a bit. I love pondering an idea when I am sitting in the rocker with the baby at 1 am. In fact, that ability to ponder and imagine is what makes me able to enjoy long stretches of quiet or solitude.

However, sometimes you need to just get on with things and start putting words to paper and seeing what happens.

So, I chose for this year the word: ACTION

I want to take these ideas I have been thinking about and make them happen. At first, I was resistant to the word because it seemed, well, very “A-Type” very disciplined and all go go go. Ok, it reminded me of gym class and I hated gym class. I really wanted to be sitting in the shade of a tree reading rather than playing kickball or whatever.

You see, I would love to spend my days dressed eccentrically sipping espresso and eating cake while pondering the mysteries of life. In fact, if I were being honest that’s really what I want to be when I grow up. In fact, someday I will open up a bookstore cafe that will be just for that. Until then, however, there is a lot I really want to do.

Not ticks off a to-do list. Not a driven goal or gold star. Just bits of myself that are far too important to be ignored.

So little by little each day I am taking action in all these little ways so that my whole day is full of things that make me happy, joyful and that honor who I am.

I would love to hear what your word for the year is if you have one. I chose 2 supporting words as well and they are “inspired” and “creative” so that altogether I am working towards “Inspired, creative action”

Now that sounds good!

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder//img/no-image.png', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/?p=4663'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Hello My Friends

As I sit writing this we are reaching the end of the first month of the new year. I have eased into 2019 pulling myself within even more than usual. So much has been going on in my life that it often feels like the inner personal work could be a full-time job of its own. I’m not complaining, truth be told I prefer the inner, spiritual work over most other types of work.

It’s my nature to go within when things are changing, shifting or challenging. The noise of the outside world can be deafening at times especially when I am trying to make sense of my own inner rhythms and emotions. Family dynamics have shifted, I welcomed a daughter at the end of last year-the beautiful little soul I heard call to me almost 3 years ago. My little family isn’t so little anymore and my days are spent nurturing and facilitating the learning of my children as I cultivate my own creative work.

There were so many ideas swimming in my end at the end of last year. So much I thought I wanted to do. Work I wanted to create, things I wanted to release into the world. Yet even as I wanted to charge on I hear a voice whispering for me to wait. To stay quiet, to think, to play. To once again relish in the creating for creating’s sake.

And that’s what I’m doing.

I am reconnecting with my writing practice, not for the future result-a finished book-but because I love writing. I am making art and journals for the love of creativity and I am blogging because I really miss sharing a little bit about myself with the outside world.

The podcasts are back as they really ground me and well, I love to talk. I hope you will hang around here, comment and reengage in the way we used to engage with blogs. I want to bring back some of the fun of just writing online for the fun of writing online. I want to share, ease into the year and play with my creativity because I do love it so much.

Want to play?

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder//img/no-image.png', '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/?p=4660'); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Creative Podcast: Thursday December 13, 2018

Daily Creative Podcast

Podcast Episode: Thursday, December 13, 2018

Early morning musings with coffee.

My newest YouTube video can be found right here.

You can subscribe to my newsletter here.

My online shop can be found right here.

Until Next time… -Michele Fawcett, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

Share List

SGMB_URL = "http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder/"; jQuery(".dropdownWrapper").hide(); SGMB_GOOGLE_ACOUNT = ""; jQuery(document).ready(function($){var widget = new SGMBWidget();widget.show({"id":"1","title":"Social","options":{"currentUrl":"1","url":"","shareText":"","fontSize":"10","betweenButtons":"1px","theme":"classic","buttonsPosition":"","socialTheme":"","icon":"default","buttonsPanelEffect":"No Effect","buttonsEffect":"No Effect","iconsEffect":"No Effect","buttons":"{\"facebook\":{\"label\":\"Share\",\"icon\":\"default-facebook\"},\"twitter\":{\"label\":\"Tweet\",\"icon\":\"default-twitter\",\"via\":\"\",\"hashtags\":\"\"},\"googleplus\":{\"label\":\"+1\",\"icon\":\"default-googleplus\"},\"pinterest\":{\"label\":\"Pin this\",\"icon\":\"default-pinterest\"},\"email\":{\"label\":\"E-mail\",\"icon\":\"default-email\"}}","roundButton":"on","showLabels":"","showCounts":"","showCenter":"","showButtonsAsList":"","setButtonsPosition":"","sgmbDropdownColor":"","sgmbDropdownLabelFontSize":"14","sgmbDropdownLabelColor":"","showButtonsOnEveryPost":"on","showOnAllPost":"on","sgmbPostionOnEveryPost":"Left","textOnEveryPost":"","showButtonsOnMobileDirect":""},"buttonOptions":{"facebook":{"label":"Share","icon":"default-facebook"},"twitter":{"label":"Tweet","icon":"default-twitter","via":"","hashtags":""},"googleplus":{"label":"+1","icon":"default-googleplus"},"pinterest":{"label":"Pin this","icon":"default-pinterest"},"email":{"label":"E-mail","icon":"default-email"}},"button":["facebook","twitter","googleplus","pinterest","email"]}, 2, '', 'http://dreamingdilettante.com/wp-content/plugins/social-media-builder//img/no-image.png', '', ''); });

jQuery(".socialMediaOnEveryPost").addClass("sgmb-left")

Trending Blogs

Recently Viewed Blogs

DreamingDilettante.com