We did this challenge as a group. We timed the challenge by giving each person 30 seconds to draw and then we passed the paper to the person to our left etc etc. Each picture is therefore a collaborative effort. We did this challenge as a group. We timed the challenge by giving each person 30 seconds to draw and then we passed the paper to the person to our left etc etc. Each picture is therefore a collaborative effort. We did this challenge as a group. We timed the challenge by giving each person 30 seconds to draw and then we passed the paper to the person to our left etc etc. Each picture is therefore a collaborative effort. We did this challenge as a group. We timed the challenge by giving each person 30 seconds to draw and then we passed the paper to the person to our left etc etc. Each picture is therefore a collaborative effort. We did this challenge as a group. We timed the challenge by giving each person 30 seconds to draw and then we passed the paper to the person to our left etc etc. Each picture is therefore a collaborative effort. We did this challenge as a group. We timed the challenge by giving each person 30 seconds to draw and then we passed the paper to the person to our left etc etc. Each picture is therefore a collaborative effort. We did this challenge as a group. We timed the challenge by giving each person 30 seconds to draw and then we passed the paper to the person to our left etc etc. Each picture is therefore a collaborative effort. We did this challenge as a group. We timed the challenge by giving each person 30 seconds to draw and then we passed the paper to the person to our left etc etc. Each picture is therefore a collaborative effort. We did this challenge as a group. We timed the challenge by giving each person 30 seconds to draw and then we passed the paper to the person to our left etc etc. Each picture is therefore a collaborative effort. I felt overwhelmed, but I like this bird a kolibri, because it is very tiny, and it has beautifull rainbow colours. It has the freedom of flying from one beautiful flower, to another to feed on the nectar. It is also busy all day doing this. in doing this but also germinating different species and creating new ones. How nature evolves in nature. I drew a Robin my favourite bird I automatically thought of an owl. I like to observe things and see the world pass around me sometimes. I automatically thought of an owl. I like to observe things and see the world pass around me sometimes. I felt excited, I felt like I was an owl doing this challenge. I prefer night time, 11pm, that's when I come out! I like the colours! It's good to see the movement I chose to be an eagle because I love the idea of infinite freedom. In life I make it my mission to always follow my dreams and be free in everything I do. And that's why I chose an eagle because I feel like they're the most free birds in the world. #DoThinkShareDAW Daily Challenge, Monday 22nd May - Dessert Island Today is all about being silly. Sometimes as adults we forget to just let go and have a play. So we recommend, if you can, collaborating with children on this challenge. Maybe you have a grandchild or friend that might help you, either in person or someone you could email, call or text? If not, don’t worry - just come up with the craziest ideas you can. Do Create a desert island made from food. Spaghetti mountains, chocolate rivers, marshmallow clouds, vegetable houses, whatever you like. Take a piece of paper and use whatever you have, actual food, pens and paints, ripped up pictures from newspapers, magazines or junk mail - whatever you have available to create your own desert island made of food (maybe even a dessert island – get it?! Think Does your island have a name? If someone wanted to visit, how would they get there? What was it like to be silly and playful? Share Show us your island by sharing on our website dothinkshare.com or on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram using the hashtag #DoThinkShareDAW t: https://twitter.com/64M_Artists f: https://www.facebook.com/64millionartists/ i: https://www.instagram.com/64millionartists/ Don't forget to hashtag #ABookofMe on Twitter & Facebook too. #DoThinkShareDAW Daily Challenge, Monday 22nd May - Dessert Island Today is all about being silly. Sometimes as adults we forget to just let go and have a play. So we recommend, if you can, collaborating with children on this challenge. Maybe you have a grandchild or friend that might help you, either in person or someone you could email, call or text? If not, don’t worry - just come up with the craziest ideas you can. Do Create a desert island made from food. Spaghetti mountains, chocolate rivers, marshmallow clouds, vegetable houses, whatever you like. Take a piece of paper and use whatever you have, actual food, pens and paints, ripped up pictures from newspapers, magazines or junk mail - whatever you have available to create your own desert island made of food (maybe even a dessert island – get it?! Think Does your island have a name? If someone wanted to visit, how would they get there? What was it like to be silly and playful? Share Show us your island by sharing on our website dothinkshare.com or on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram using the hashtag #DoThinkShareDAW t: https://twitter.com/64M_Artists f: https://www.facebook.com/64millionartists/ i: https://www.instagram.com/64millionartists/ Don't forget to hashtag #ABookofMe on Twitter & Facebook too. Liked looking at textures - had to look in the garden as forgot camera when I went on a walk in the woods. Tried to make a collage but failed. - not so great with technology today. Enjoyed seeing colours and textures though. I've done lots of gardening today, so lots of walking around looking at colours. These really caught my eye today though. It's the technology, stupid! Took advantage of daughter Rosi handholding through the process. It doesn't come easy. But I suppose that I should simply believe in the slogan which I've advocated for a time. Many older people have lost confidence in themselves and who they are. Leicester Ageing Together, an organisation I'm involved with, is trying to help older people reclaim older interests and skills and develop new ones in order to flourish in retirement. I love colour! And it made me appreciate things that I wouldn't normally notice (as the wording of the challenge suggested!) and reconsider everyday creativity. Parts of my daily life (working to work etc.) can be a creative journey if you just value small things and things that wouldn't usually be seen to have aesthetic value. Was feeling absolutely shattered today and really needed this little walk to perk me up. Felt like noticing the colours really helped me out of feeling sorry for myself! I took a little walk around the garden, I thought there would be a greater variety of greens, perhaps I should have gone to the woods. I wanted to include some of the colours that are not in the rainbow, like pink. I like the way the variegated holly makes a link between the yellow and green band. I enjoyed being outside, noticing things, and I enjoyed arranging the segment of my rainbow. I do take a lot of notice of colours and textures when I go for walks, and often stop to stroke the bark of trees. But I had not noticed that the bright red berries were already on the holly. #DoThinkShareDAW Daily Challenge, Sunday 21st May - Rainbow Walk One of the Five Ways to Wellbeing is to Take Notice. So often we rush around in our day or we get stuck in our thoughts and we forget to notice what’s around us. Today we’re inviting you to take a closer look at your surroundings. Do Go for a walk (you can do this indoors if the weather is bad or you are unable to get out) and try and spot all the colours of the rainbow, in as many different textures as possible. Take photos of them, or collect objects up until you have enough to make a collage. You can make a physical collage or a digital photo collage using one of these apps: Mixagram Collageable Think What was it like to take notice? Did it make you feel any different? Did it affect your day at all? Share Share your collage either on our website dothinkshare.com or on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram using the hashtag #DoThinkShareDAW t: https://twitter.com/64M_Artists f: https://www.facebook.com/64millionartists/ i: https://www.instagram.com/64millionartists/ Don't forget to hashtag #ABookofMe on Twitter & Facebook too. #DoThinkShareDAW Daily Challenge, Sunday 21st May - Rainbow Walk One of the Five Ways to Wellbeing is to Take Notice. So often we rush around in our day or we get stuck in our thoughts and we forget to notice what’s around us. Today we’re inviting you to take a closer look at your surroundings. Do Go for a walk (you can do this indoors if the weather is bad or you are unable to get out) and try and spot all the colours of the rainbow, in as many different textures as possible. Take photos of them, or collect objects up until you have enough to make a collage. You can make a physical collage or a digital photo collage using one of these apps: Mixagram Collageable Think What was it like to take notice? Did it make you feel any different? Did it affect your day at all? Share Share your collage either on our website dothinkshare.com or on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram using the hashtag #DoThinkShareDAW t: https://twitter.com/64M_Artists f: https://www.facebook.com/64millionartists/ i: https://www.instagram.com/64millionartists/ Don't forget to hashtag #ABookofMe on Twitter & Facebook too. How do I feel? Much better with a good book and a glass of wine! I stayed at a friend's house last night. We chatted away all evening. It's so good to have a friend who can talk and listen even though she's having a rough time right now. This simple pattern sums up how I feel today. The last few weeks have been really full on and I've been waiting for a bit of nothing time. So far today I've read in bed, been to the farm shop and taken the bears for a long windy walk past some beautiful fields. I'm very lucky to be doing what I do for a living and very sensible about putting things in to perspective, especially during a week like Dementia Awareness Week, so the rest I get today will mean I'm tired up and ready to do my bit for good again next week. Have a lovely weekend everyone. I woke up to a sunny weekend day so I'd say this challenge, with the vivid colours and soft shapes, is definitely inspired by that. #DoThinkShareDAW Daily Challenge, Saturday 20th May - Draw how you feel How is your day today? Feeling good? Having a hard time? What’s going on for you? We all have good days and bad days. Today we are going to take the time to think about that a little bit, but without words, because sometimes words can just make it more complicated! Do Draw how you feel. Pick up a pen or pencil and paper and just start drawing. See what happens when you twirl your pencil round the paper - are you feeling free? Or angry? Or sad? Or happy? See what comes when you just start. Think What was that like? Did it feel strange? Or was it easy? Did it make the feeling stronger? Or did it help it pass? Share If you want, you can share your drawing, but you don’t have to. You might just share how it felt to do it. Whatever you want to share.. Share it on our website dothinkshare.com or on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram using the hashtag #DoThinkShareDAW t: https://twitter.com/64M_Artists f: https://www.facebook.com/64millionartists/ i: https://www.instagram.com/64millionartists/ Don't forget to hashtag #ABookofMe & #DAW2017. Invisible scarfie Visible scarfie Took me a while to decide which bird and then I saw a swallow swooping across the field. Just escaping in my head for a while felt good. Leaving cares behind for 10 minutes was refreshing. I had to rope in hubby and daughter to take the photo and hold up the banner, but they are used to being called upon to assist in my dementure ventures. I enjoyed holding up the banner, once we worked out how a very tall daughter and a very small mum could hold it more or less horizontally. I all the excitement, I forgot about holding up the invisible one, so the photo of this part is not only invisible, it is imaginary. I think I would have felt daft holding it up. We have enjoyed taking part in various research projects, and we have benefitted too, Join dementia research has given us a sense of usefulness, of contributing to the fight against dementia, of helping future generations. Some projects are great fun like the Protect Brain Training, where I was able to play brain training games that normally you would have to pay for, and hopefully I improved my chances of maintaining my cognitive powers. It really is as simple as that. Listen More, Talk Less. Paraphrasing badly, there's an incredible saying about all of man's problems being caused by an inability to just sit in a room quietly. Imagine what we could learn about each other through meaningful and theoughtful conversations. I've been thinking a lot about this lately. Especially living in London where compassion feels lacking. My grandma's character changed a lot when her dementia worsened but it was so important to maintain compassion and love as she was still the same person as always, just struggling with what she had. And in so many moments her love and compassion still shone through. I really enjoyed this challenge as it made me think about the important message I'd say to my Grandma. This is the first thing I thought of and really is something I'm passionate about sharing with everyone. I would be a flamingo. I would be a duck because ducks swim. I chose a pigeon because I do a good pigeon pose for Katherine's website. Head bopping makes people smile. This shoild go on You've Been Framed! Robins are my favourite birds. I also see blackbirds drinking and bathing in the pond in my garden. If I could be a bird for a day I would be a hungry bird and fly to Newmarket to eat chips.

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