9/12/2015
Daily Prompt
Cutting out a new skirt this morning. Love to see it emerge from the fabric, the art of cutting away. Make art about this emergence from cutting away;
or reenvision one of these old adages, making us see it in some new way:
cut out, cut off, cut bait, cut the cord, cut loose, cut to the chase, a cut above, cut and dried, cut a rug, cut and paste, unkindest cut, cut to the bone, cut and run, cut from the same cloth,cuts both ways.
9/10/2015
Daily Prompt
“The taste of every living thing is in the raindrop”~Afaa Michael Weaver
Make art about the taste of weather.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up 😀 Soooo busy around here lately! LOL
9/4/2015
Lots of thinkin this week about salvage. “The wreck is a fact…The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work.”~Kay Ryan Make art about salvage, or salvaging something.
9/5/2015
“Sink, suffer, self-destruct. Rise stronger, reconstruct”~Lamb of God Make art about reconstruction, about reconstructing from what’s left.
9/6/2015
Someone I love is battling cancer. Make art about illnesss or disease.
9/7/2015
Dreamt someone I love brought me yards of unbleached cotton and lace. Make art with flowing white fabric, or lace, or lacing as the central metaphor.
9/1/2015
Dreamt someone I love gave me a ring full of keys and I gleefully skipped around unlocking and throwing open doors. 🙂
Make art about keys, about finding the key. 
Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂
8/29/2015
All my kids coming home for a visit 🙂 Make art about visitors.
8/30/2015
You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.” ~Diane Samuels Make art about children, young or adult, or about parenting.
8/31/2015
I’m fixin to go on a sewin binge 🙂 The first known sewing needle came from southwestern France and dates to about 25,000 years ago. When I sew, I feel an endless procession of women surround me, as I, in my small way, add to the story. Make art about sewing, or needlework, or stitching something together.
A set of bone needles from the Cave of Courbet in the Aveyron Valley, near Toulouse, France. Believed to be over 13,000 years old.
8/28/2015
Daily Prompt
“I see you in your backyard’s lavender, post-lunch doze, dreaming someone.”~W.S. Di Piero
Make art inspired by lavender, the color or the scent or the flower 🙂 or the feeling 🙂
8/24/2015
Daily Prompt
Woke up feeling like life’s full of promise 🙂 So many dreams last night, but all that remains are shining fragments 🙂
Make art about fragments.
8/23/2015
Daily Prompt
Last night I dreamt of so so many shining spoons, too many spoons to choose from 🙂 Someone I love stood at my side and laughed indulgently at my excitement about all of those spoons LOL
Make art about spoons. 🙂
So excited! 🙂 Along with the fabulous MeLaina Elise Ramos, I’m thrilled to be offering a brand new writing workshop! At the beach!
Writing the Forgotten Feminine:
Giving Voice to the Disregarded, Unsung, or Silenced Woman
A One-Day Writing Workshop in beautiful Grandview Beach, Hampton, VA 23664
September 19, 2015, 9am-5pm
Whether you’re drawn to the women left out of history books or that aunt in the family no one speaks of, or even your own woman-self, subverted, forgotten, or neglected in the demands of work, parenting, or relationships, the feminine voice is one of complexity, knowing, and power that spans all of human history.
And we want to hear it ring!
Join us for a gathering in which the mystery, the humor, the wisdom, and especially the strength of the feminine voice is celebrated and empowered.
Led by two women writers at different stages in their own work and lives, but who share a deep respect and interest in reclaiming the voices of forgotten or silenced women, this workshop will include readings on and by women who’ve been left out, as well as tons of prompts and exercises specifically designed to help you tap into and strengthen the feminine voice in your writing.
and….we cook for you! Lunch is included 🙂
$75 includes one-day workshop, tons of prompts and exercises, a take-away packet of reading and resource materials, and gifts created just for you.
If interested, email at vaprlover@gmail.com & carrollhackettma@gmail.com for details.
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Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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