As a child:
Ever since I was a kid I loved drawing and coloring. Mum used to tell me that all she needed to do to keep me busy and happy as a child was to give me paper and pens (colored if available). She also told me that I used to be good with stick figures from an early age, but I can't remember any of that.
As a Teenager:
My mum used to make very nice clothes for me as a kid and I loved
watching her and trying to learn how she did it all. Mum eventually taught me how to use the sewing machine and also how to transfer patterns from burda magazines. I also learned how to make curtains, pillow cases, fancy fruit shaped pillows...etc. Mum also taught me how to knit, crochet and embroidery. I knitted a few scarves for myself, and did a few cross stitch projects using patterns from old magazines, was a lot of fun, you forget about the whole world when you are counting stitches :) In high-school we got a really good art teacher - Yes, we used to take an art class at school. I remember shading lessons and how I loved drawing and shading all those bottles. We also did view prospecting, buildings and tunnels...etc. But the best project I loved was when we learned how to use our geometry supplies to make art. I enjoyed this so much that I did two designs instead of just one. One was an arabesque style Islamic tile design and the other was Ancient Egyptian lotus flower tile. I loved it so much and was so happy doing it that it turned out so good that the teacher didn't believe that I did it myself and didn't copy it. All I did was divide the page and divide the page and a piece of art was created. I still hit myself on the head for not keeping those, but maybe someday I'll recreate them again. I also went to study accounting in university because I thought if I went to study fine arts that it would be like cheating on my education because it is not something I can make a living with. Ah well, live and learn is what I can say!
In my twenties:I didn't get much of a chance to express my artistic side in my twenties, but I did manage to express my creative side by doing DIY projects at home. Hanging up shelves, organizing books and other nicknacks on them. Putting closets together, rearranging the furniture.
I did get to develop a talent for organizing filing systems, which I seemed to do wherever I got to work. Wherever I went, I left a good filing system behind.I also got a kick out of designing the labels for those files, great days!
In my thirties:
Well, I'm now (September 2013) in my 39th year and I'm still moving furniture around the house. However, over the last year, I have been doing this a bit less because I have been watching art journaling videos on YouTube and I've been making my own art journal pages. Since I still have less than 6 months in my thirties, I'll stop here and fill this out when I am 40 :)
