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"Take your inspiration from something that happened today in history" Miris striatus running off with a flag it is not supposed to have. On June 22, 1906 Sweden adopted its current rectangular blue flag design with the yellow cross as the Official Flag and made personal use of the three-tailed Royal version (and other designs) illegal. This is why the Miris,  a true bug (hemiptera) native to Sweden, runs so quickly :) [June 22, 2016]

"Teach us how to do something" "I Can't Hide...My Larva for You!" This is how to make a pretty simple pop-up greeting card. Mine features a green lacewing larva and super cheesy pun, but your design can be whatever you want. *Materials* card stock glue stick scissors pencil images pens/markers/colored pencils (optional) colored paper/origami paper (optional) Cheesy pun or sentiment (optional) 1. First, gather your cardstock. You will have an outer and inner card. My outer card is the white one. It is 3" x 3", but yours can be any size. The kraft colored cardstock is the inner card. It is slightly smaller than the outer card. For comparison 2. Next, decorate the front of the outer card any way you like and set it aside. Mine is pretty simple - I glued on some origami and kraft card stock and  wrote on it with a sharpie and gelly roll pen. Next, I'm going to start working wi...

"Take something that you made with you wherever you go today. Take pictures of it in different places or with different people throughout the day" Arriving at Work This is actually something I've done before - taking an object, photographing it in different places, and putting it together into a little book for someone. Usually, there is a loose narrative behind it. No deeper meaning here though. I brought the paper mantispid (my very first Creative Sprint project) with me to work on Friday. It is unfortunate that my camera battery died early, as I was in the field and could have got pics around Lake Hart. The Breakroom My Cube The Zen Corner in my cube In the work truck And the battery died! [June 24, 2016] So I took a few pics at Lake Mills since I missed out on Lake Hart: [June 25, 2016]

"Make a disguise and take a picture of yourself wearing it. Bonus: Get someone to take a picture of you wearing it in public" So here is a mantis mask made from a cereal box, hemp twine, glue, and acrylic paint. (The perfect disguise...there's a Modest Mouse song floating around in my head now.) Wearing this in public outside of Halloween would likely get me shot  or arrested for suspicious behavior. "Yup, this is Creepy." [June 22, 2016]

"Do whatever you want today but do it in a public place - a park, library, coffee shop - get someone to take a photo of you doing it" Wheelbug on sweetgum I went to Lake Mills park for this one and decided I would draw the first bug I saw. Lucky for me it was this glorious assassin bug, a wheelbug, named for the roundish projection on its back. I traded out the air potato for sweetgum in my drawing. The wheelbug was actually in the middle of a face-off with a brown anole that was only a little larger than it was. Considering the digestive fluids the assassin bugs inject into their victims with each bite, I wonder who would have won that one? [June 25, 2016] Confession: I have to admit that my heart is just not in this right now and it's been difficult to get back into the swing of doing these, so the dates are all out of whack and I did not do one per day.

"Do something intentionally wrong today" When I first read this prompt, it made me think "Wrong...something against the Natural Order" This sketchy comic is wrong on multiple levels. [June 19, 2016]

"Find a creative way to give someone a compliment" Certain to become the gold standard of compliments. This was made from cut out black paper and kraft paper with acrylic paint.  The lettering was done with stamps. (June 17, 2016)