I made a thing. Day 10.

My favorite sitting place.

I made a thing. Day 9.

My favorite chair.

I'm still here. :)  I have been busy getting geared up and excited about teaching art the next generation for an entire weekend.  I feel revved up and a little on fire.  I have also still be drawing and creating everyday, but this little blog has gotten away from me.  I have a lot on my mind and so much to say, but I'm trying hard not to overwhelm myself with expectations that I can't meet at this very crazy time in my teaching/mothering/art-making life.  Thanks for sticking around and following along.

I made a thing. Day 8.

I made a thing. Day 7

Real talk for my introverted home-body self.

I made a thing. Day 6.

I made a thing. Day 5 and the reason I'm making things again.

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” -Ira Glass

This is me beginning again.  Reinventing myself as an artist.  I hope you'll be patient with me.  My taste as Glass puts it is what has held me back all these years.  The experience of rejection and failure keep my dreams at bay.  This is the beginning of me trying to break from from these limitations.  It is humiliating and vulnerable.  It is exciting and energizing.  It is all the things I've been okay not feeling for years. 

Please bear with me.  

I made a thing. Day 4

Once my daily walk.