1960's Fashion Print: Creatives Book Club

Once again my Creative Book Club choice

 is a quick read.

Obviously I am not one to tackle the epic...

it may have something to do with my attention span,

but I think I'd rather put it down

 to the fact that I am a visual person.

And this book is all about the visual.

All the same it does have some short sharp paragraphs

giving a brief history, circa and name of the pattern.

Useful, interesting info.

 I love the 60's!

I spent my teenage years being a try hard mod

-embarrassing yes,

 but not as embarrassing as the 80's fashion of the time.

 Yummy colour galore.

Read it if:

• If you dig the 6o's
• Fabrics are your thing
• If you want some inspiration for pattern or colour
• You have a spare half hour

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Creative Book Club: Steal Like an Artist

My local library is a regular haunt.

Every week I go and pick up 20 new books

 for my children

and

a couple just for me.

Lately I have come across so many intriguing books,

sparking the idea that it would be a waste not to share them,

especially with the creative souls out there.

So this is the first of my Creative Book Club reads:

 (that name is so daggy but, hey, its about the books not the name) 

Steal Like an Artist

(10 Things Nobody Told you About Being Creative)

by 

Austin Kleon

Last year I realised that whilst raising children and beginning a new job
 I had neglected a big part of me :

 my need to imaginative, innovative and experimental.

I realised with sudden clarity that I just needed to 'do'.

This book gives you strategies to 'do' asserting

Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

This is great advice, cause lets face it if we all waited the world would be a colourless place.

Being an Art teacher the fruitless quest for originality 

and post modern concepts about appropriation are nothing new.  Kleon, however, does educate how to 'steal' in the honorable way. I hope people catch on.

I won't go into the rest because this book

 is short and super easy to read.

Read it if:

• Your in a creative rut
• You're a creative wannabe
• Your a student (of life, college or uni)
• You have a spare hour

Do you have a book I should read?