I am excited to let you know about a new collaborative blog project that Daria and I have begun. After complaining to each other over coffee one day about feeling uninspired, we came up with the idea for this little year-long project hoping to challenge our creativity and get us out of our box. At the beginning of each month, we will send each other a small eightbyeight box (8" x 8") of items based on that month's theme (listed on the about page). The recipient uses the items in the box to create an eightbyeight inch finished piece, using all of the materials in some way. We will each post about the contents of our new box each month, our inspiration and process along the way, and our finished projects. We have already given each other a box based on the January theme, it was fun to see our very different interpretations of "new". It already feels inspiring to be handed a box of things I did not pick, from a friend who has a different aesthetic, and interpret it in my own way.
We hope you'll follow the evolution of this project. We also have an eightbyeight flickr group where we will post photos.
A big thank you to Daria for a wonderful blog banner, and for the suggestion that became the blog name. It all fell into place perfectly.
P.S.- Thank you all for the super nice comments about my new glasses! You guys are so nice, you know that?
