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GrannyHanaDa 04-12-2011 03:42 PM

You best dig out the old "Webster" for that man!

so-sew 04-12-2011 03:52 PM

Got a dictionary handy? Maybe you should share with him what Webster has to say about it.

Pieceful Quilter 04-12-2011 03:56 PM

Gee, duh, tell hubby to look up CREATE in Genesis in the bible. God made something (a pretty awesome something I's say - the entire universe!) out of nothing. He had an ORIGINAL idea, an ORIGINAL plan. No blueprint. No copying from someone else. Just good old CREATIVITY at its best!!

bea cda 04-12-2011 05:11 PM

Buy your husband a good dictionary.............and teach him how to use it. Then have him look up the word creative........he just might be surprised. Bea

Betty Ruth 04-12-2011 05:54 PM


Originally Posted by TeriD
That's the weirdest definition of creative I've ever heard. It seems to me that doing your own thing is MORE creative than following a pattern, plan, etc.

Ditto.

vickyfortune 04-12-2011 07:38 PM

"CREATIVITY is allowing yourself to make mistakes. ART is knowing which ones to keep."

Scott Adams :thumbup:

arimuse 04-12-2011 07:54 PM

if you take someones directions and follow them to the letter and make something exactly like someone else you have successfully RE created it. you havent pulled it out of the air and made it come into being with no direction but thru what is within you. sharet

ruck9085 04-12-2011 08:43 PM

Tell your DH to look up the definition of creative in his Funk and Wagnell's!
Being creative means to create, NOT copy!

danece 04-12-2011 09:05 PM

Your husband sounds like mine, not a creative bone in their bodies, they are followers, not leaders, everything is done by the book, not like we do, we often check out things and make them our own by taking an idea and creating something of our own out of someone elses's ideas, your DH sounds like mine, the world is or should be all done on black and white :-D

katigirl 04-12-2011 09:15 PM


Originally Posted by Julianna
My DH says I am not the least bit creative because every time I sew, quilt, bake, garden, paint, write, etc. I do my own thing instead of following a set pattern, or rule, or recipe, or guide of some type. He says creative means doing EXACTLY what the plan says and not changing it one tiny bit. I say if I want it the way someone else does I will do their way, if I want it my way I will do mine.

What are your thoughts on being CREATIVE?

Your husband is soooo wrong. You sound like the ultimate creative person. Not only creating but doing things all new in your own fashion is super creative in my book. lol.


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