Creative Maze - Joint Challenge

Hello everyone, and welcome to our joint Creative Maze challenge.

Dori - Change to My Challenge

As many of you will know, I have been learning to knit for my challenge. It's been going fine, but I had to admit to myself that I'm not really into it right now. I'm going to continue to learn how to knit but at another time. You know how it is when your heart isn't really into something. Well that's what's been happening with me. I'm interested but not interested enough at this moment to take the time needed to learn.

So today I'm changing my challenge over to something that I would like to revisit. Years ago, I used to make jewelry, but I haven't done so for a long time. Therefore, I thought that I would set myself the challenge of tapping into my creativity again and seeing what I can make. Even though I will be making jewelry, the broader challenge is to tap into a part of myself which has been dormant for way too long...my creativity.

I look forward to sharing my journey with this challenge which I am really excited about. Watch this space :-)

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Val – Piano Challenge

 

 

It’s  been a few weeks since my last posting, and I haven’t got very far with the piano practice.  ‘Life’ seems to have got in the way, with other things taking over and bleeding into my precious practice time.  Never mind – that happens, doesn’t it?  I’ll just have to dive back in next week and stick to a more rigid timetable!

I have managed to learn a new piece though, and have moved on from using the odd sharp to introducing flats, so the little practice I have done has been quite interesting.  It’s amazing how many things a pianist has to do all at the same time, but then, perhaps, in time, it will become second nature...a bit like driving a car.  Well, I hope it will anyway, because right now things are a bit all over the place!

You can watch the ‘Russian song’ video here, or go to our Labyrinthus XXI YouTube channel and see it (and others) there.  Bye bye for now... 

 

 

 

Have a great weekend!

The Creative Maze

Val      

Hello there.  Today Dori and I are launching the ‘Creative Maze’ – you know, that monster I hinted at yesterday that has gobbled up our alternate Friday challenge posts?  This ‘monster’ evolved through one of our many Skype meets, where we were discussing our challenges and the way we deal with and present them to you.  We felt you might get bored if our individual challenges didn’t show any major progress, and that updating every two weeks didn’t allow enough time for either of us to make any great leaps forward.  Now, this isn’t a cop-out and we’re not shutting down our challenges.  We’re just going to extend the time between our challenge posts, and we think it will be better to update you with our piano/knitting progress in a joint post once a month on the last Friday of the month from now on.  You can see we’ve kicked this off today with an update from both of us. 

I’ve uploaded two new videos to our Labyrinthus XXI YouTube channel – one of me playing a simple tune (but one I couldn’t have played before this challenge), and one of my daughter playing ‘Arriety’s song’, a really pretty piece of music.  She’s only been playing for three years, and I hope I can learn to play as well as she does.  You can watch the embedded videos at the end of this post, or view through YouTube, if you like.

CHANGES TO OUR FRIDAY CHALLENGE POSTS

             
Hi everyone.  Dori and I often chat via Skype to discuss life, the universe and everything, including, of course, our blog and the challenges we’ve set ourselves for this year.  We don’t need to tell you (because it’s probably quite obvious) that our individual challenges are ‘challenging’ us, as challenges are supposed to, and, well...we don’t want you to get bored!  (Especially with the amount of 'challenges' in that last sentence!)