I have four sons, and one daughter. She may be a minority, but she makes up for it with a mighty personality, full of vision, creativity, leadership, and goofiness. I am so lucky.
This weekend, she found a leftover pepper on the counter. She noticed it looked like a flower. I shared an Edward Weston book from my stash with her, and she spent the morning doing this:
Like mother, like daughter: there are at least 20 more pepper pix from her shoot. We like to be prolific. (By the way, she got the tulip image from a big stack of ripped magazine pages she’s saving. - She’s not yet on Pinterest!).
When I watch her I see someone who gets an idea and just does it, in a somewhat fearless way. I see someone who isn’t constrained yet by ideas of what things “should” be like. I see someone who knows what she likes, responds, and engages it.
I am so grateful that my house is filled with pepper installations, tin-foil cities, stuffed animal schools and a million half-finished projects. (A quarter of those are mine…)
Is anyone else inspired by their kids’ creativity? Tell me about it! I want to be inspired too. 
That’s awesome! (I love the one of Des looking all mad too!)
We can’t really sit at our kitchen table because it is piled with art supplies – pens, markers, paper, gluesticks, scissors, etc. And right beside it is an easel with both a paper roll for painting and a white board underneath.
I find that having the supplies accessible helps so much in being spontaneous. It then doesn’t happen only when everything is dragged out. I just always knew that I wanted to be a home where we all felt inspired to create and where it was easy to do so.
I find that I am very inspired by my six year old daughter’s love of creating – creating just about anything. And there is nothing more fun that working on something together….
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Callum told me this weekend that he A) wanted a twitter account and B) thought I should be a model train photographer!
Your daughter sounds wonderful! I am totally impressed with her and thrilled (not surprised, just thrilled) that you encourage it so much!
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she’s awesome. and creative. she definitely takes after you, heidi!
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Go the kids! My children are far more creative than me, it always amazes me what they can create. Art/stories/songs you name it they will give it a go. Well done to your daughter.