A dozen after-turkey articles to motivate you to create during this holiday weekend. (By the way, I’m thankful for all the people who read Creative Juice.)

1. The Other Art Fair.
2. What if life really is just the dress rehearsal? I never thought of eternity in quite this way before.
3. Can you determine whether a poem was written by a human or a computer? (I missed two out of three.)
4. Rituals and memories.
5. Why a painting by Manet shocked his contemporary audience.
6. Need some inexpensive gift ideas? Be sure to watch the video of the grown-up fidget spinner.
7. Here’s an alternative advent calendar you create yourself.
8. Christmas decorations you can make yourself with paper.
9. Beautiful quilting. Be sure to click on each image for the enlargement.
10. Why it’s good to try your hand at different arts.
11. Marvelous photographs by Cig Harvey.
12. Psychologist Dean Simonton writes: “On average, creative geniuses aren’t qualitatively better in their fields than their peers, they simply produce a greater volume of work which gives them more variation and a higher chance of originality.” Author Thomas Oppong says, “If you want to be prolific, stop judging yourself.” (I don’t totally believe that—you have to judge yourself somewhat if you want to put out excellent work. But this article gives creatives much to think about.)