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Private Balcony Ideas
You don't have to be
an artist to be inspired by your little piece of green. Plants can
be a pretty powerful muse.
What better place to write than in a tiny garden -- and we're talking
longhand, not the keyboard kind. Practice your penmanship and your
poetry. Try calligraphy. Dash off a few lines to a friend, confide
your innermost thoughts to your diary, record the sprouting of new
life in a garden journal -- or start working on the Great American
Novel. (Now, how cool would you be if you could say at your book-signing,
"Oh, it was nothing; I wrote it on my balcony in just one week.")
Your garden can also
be your studio. Dust off that watercolor set and bring out your
charcoal sticks. If realism's not your cup of tea, make abstract,
organic sketches of the plants around you. Drawing sweeping, expressive
lines on big sheets of paper is a great stress reliever!
Okay, okay, if you insist
that there isn't a creative bone in your body, you can do work in
your garden. Take your laptop out on the balcony and ogle your spreadsheets
if you must. Our point is, there's very little (except going to
the bathroom and some other stuff) that you can't do in your balcony
oasis.
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