Get Messy

Season of Ideas

Being a creative human means having countless ideas. Countless great ideas and countless just plain bad ideas. It’s our job as messy, action-taking artists, to follow a whole bunch of ideas until their execution. It’s also our job to say no to even more.

Being a magpie and a collector of ideas is in our DNA. The work comes when it’s time to take action. To make the decision of which one we’ll work on and which ones we’ll leave behind.

It’s our job to know that we can’t do it all and to figure out how to do the stuff that excites us. How do we do it? By taking tiny steps of action. We do the little thing in spite of the fact that we really wanna do ALL the things. Rather than being left paralysed, we create a pocket in our life for the exciting idea. And we move forward with it.

So which idea will you be pursuing this month?

Class Lessons

Introduction
Movable Idea Catchers by Kiala Givehand
Gather, Spark, Create by Felicitas Mayer

Kiala Givehand

Kiala Givehand is a published poet, bookbinder, creative business strategist, teacher, fountain pen collector, and radical nomad. She believes in surrounding herself with ordinary humans who live extraordinary lives, gathering with people who make her laugh & love uncontrollably, and living a life intent on cultivating happiness.

Felicitas Mayer

Felicitas specializes in documenting bits from everyday life through the lens of openness, self-care and gratitude, combined with her passion for all things color and design. She calls her approach to modern-day memory keeping & art making Making Mundane Magic.