Posts Tagged ‘art triumphs & woes’

Blog updates & Letting go

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Blog updates:
I really should know better than to start a blog update at 9pm… I upgraded my version and it went horribly wrong.  I thought I was being smart by downloading a back-up copy, was but not smart enough to test it.  When the version upgrade took a tanker, I went to restore and my back-up had an error and was useless.  I spent till 5am this morning trying to fix it and ended up paying $30 to my server for use of their back-up copy and found out, they saved it just as I screwed it up!  They don’t offer refunds for failed attempts, so I’m out the 30 bucks and had to re-intall, export, import, and re-upload myself.  Obviously I don’t make smart money decisions after midnight, lol.  That’s why I don’t watch late night infomercials ;)

I’m digg’n my new theme… I’m tweaking the pics to make it my own (like adding the raven), and will be doing more this weekend, if my eyes regain focus after staying up all night.  After going to bed at 5, I had to be up by 7 to get my kid out the door to work, and of course I couldn’t fall back asleep.  I’m feeling a good afternoon nap coming on :)

Letting go:
I have decided to let go of my “Fly Free” assemblage box.  It’s on etsy.  I put it up there last night, and now I’m feeling regret, but that’s ok.  I need to let go of more stuff I create, otherwise how will it ever get out there in the world?  I have recent paintings from my Suzy Blu class that I have no room for too.  I love them, but I’ve told myself that if I don’t have wall space, I must free it from sitting on a shelf.  Got any space for art that needs a good great home?  Check out my Etsy page if you want a little piece of my artful soul.

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It all started with the Eclipse…

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Image from Getty Images

Did you see the eclipse?  I had no idea it was even going to take place.  I was laying on the couch with an ice pack on my head (migraine) and Tyler called and said “Mom, you better look outside – the moon is amazing right now”  I got up and headed out to the patio where there it was… dimly lit with a super bright edge.  I was catching it in the nick of time.  It got a red hue and went darker and darker and the poof, it was black – we were in a total eclipse of the moon.  It was awesome.  I’ll have to try to catch it when it happens again in 2010, and don’t forget about the total solar eclipse this August 1st.

My migraine hung out for a few days – and the meds I take for it make me feel like I got hit with a truck – the muscle ache is terrible, but better than the feeling that my brain might bust out of my head I guess.  I don’t know if I actually got the flu or if it was because of the migraine or if I ate something weird, but it was not a good weekend all around with all the ‘sickiness’ that followed.  BUT – I slept litterally every single moment in between and I had nothing but dreams of new art projects! Oh – the shimmery silver lining to my barfy black cloud!

So as the planets lined up for the eclipse, they also lined up for my muse and plenty of ideas came rushing to me.  Then I opened up the mail and I had an invitation to be on the artists for the 2nd Annual Habitat for Humanit Art Auction.  Woo hoo – it arrived at a great time!  This year’s theme is “Thinking Outside The Box”.  We’ll be given a wooden box to transform.  I’ve already got some good stuff planned – I better sketch some stuff out before it’s lost.

I’ve started another bunny crown.  I’m going to give one away and sell one in time for Easter on Etsy.  I’ve also started my Spring crown, and have the sketches done for Summer, Fall & Winter one.  I think I might also go a few movie themed ones too… you can look forward to Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz.  Maybe that will help me get over my fear of that movie.  I hope so because this years’s Relay for Life, cancer walk, is themed Wizard of Oz.  Holy crap!

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Sunday…

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Today was one of those days of high hopes, but not much accomplished. All week long the ideas and projects whirl around in my head, but I don’t have the time to get to them after work, dinner, etc. I tell myself “that’s ok… the weekend will be here soon”. Yesterday I was out of town all day and had high hopes of creating all day today. Well that didn’t happen. I fixed my blog, but couldn’t recover the past week’s posts or comments – that makes me sad. Then I just lost all energy and did pretty much nothing…. the entire day. WHY???? So now I feel guilty because nothing got done… and I’m still tired. WTF??? I’m supposed to be in a show coming up in December and darn it…. will I have anything made in time? Please…. send me your energetic vibes…. I need them bad.

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