{"id":9036,"date":"2018-01-12T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=9036"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:16:12","slug":"january-thaw-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=9036","title":{"rendered":"January Thaw…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…..warmer weather is always worth writing about. We have moved from daily highs of -20\u00baC to +10\u00baC in just a few days. However, it will move back down to -10\u00baC in just a few hours – sigh!<\/p>\n

Anyway, warm weather thaws the brain and gets the creative juices working. At the beginning of the thaw, I saw a post about a book on creativity – Big Magic <\/a>by Elizabeth Gilbert. I was thinking of buying the book to speed up the thawing out of my brain. However, I’ve been there before – 1. Bought self-help book. 2. Read the first three chapters. 3. Decided how it was going to end. 4. Closed the book. 5. Did a little something creative and that was it.<\/p>\n

This time I went to Good Reads and read the reviews. Well, there was enough in there to light my creative fire, that I didn’t have to actually buy the book. So, creatively, this is what I have done –<\/p>\n

1. Started a new personal website on felting – www.feltedfibre.com<\/a>.
\n2. Got an idea for a new product and emailed it off to a supplier.
\n3. Finished a book – “Galore<\/a>” by Michael Crummey. The book was great, with events that could only happen in Newfoundland – the setting and author’s home. (Really, as an author, I would have done a name change.)
\n4. Continued posting in a group I started on Facebook for our Spring Knitting retreat – Yarnover Sleepover<\/a>. The magic number for engagement, I am told is 100! We’re at 24 – coming along.
\n5. Started a new headband for our charity, the Shoebox Project<\/a>. That will be 7 headbands from me, when completed.<\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n

Now if I could only continue with the book I started writing last year. I’m at 5,000 words – need another 45,000. I think I need another thaw.<\/p>\n

The picture – I’ve posted it before – whenever I feel that I have seen the light.<\/p>\n

Have a brilliant day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…..warmer weather is always worth writing about. We have moved from daily highs of -20\u00baC to +10\u00baC in just a few days. However, it will move back down to -10\u00baC in just a few hours – sigh! Anyway, warm weather thaws the brain and gets the creative juices working. At the beginning of the thaw, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creativity","category-needle-felting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9037,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions\/9037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}