It has been a crazy week. Being away for a week means playing catch up, and the last few days of school just intensifies the whole situation. It hit me recently that last year I came home from Bead & Button and the packers came to box all our things for the move the very next morning. Wow, that year flew by. I am so grateful that we are back close to family, near friends and living in a town we love.
I haven’t made even a quick foray into the studio. I thought at first that it was due to all the running around I have been doing, but I don’t think that’s the real problem. While my chaotic schedule has contributed to this lack of studio time, I think the main reason is creative overload. Last week was so full of creative stimulation that I feel temporarily unable to process all the new things I have learned. I can’t decide whether to pick up beads, clay or silver. I can’t make up my mind what to start so I haven’t started anything.
So, the plan for tonight or tomorrow is to pick something simple and relatively mindless, such as soldering rings for frames or making some simple polymer clay veneers. I know I’ll be fine once I get down into my studio, but it’s amazing how hard it can be to open that door some times.
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Susan 06.14.07 at 6:30 pm
clay please. i vote for clay. please.
LB 06.15.07 at 11:46 pm
Yes, clay!!!
Trina 06.18.07 at 12:11 pm
I find winding (and/or untangling) yarn a nice interim project. I recently purchased some Sari Silk yarn which is spun from discarded garments. It is very irregular and slubbed but the colors are so vibrant it is almost (I said almost) fun to rewind. I am making hats with PC accents.
Jenn 06.19.07 at 8:29 am
I know exactly what you mean - the day-to-day things that have to get done just seem to take precedence over creative time. Sad, but true…
And even with the dearth of decent television in the summer, I find it hard to motivate myself to go & create, if only out of fear that I’ll get sucked too far in, and it will make getting up the next morning a bit too much of a challenge. Maybe I should set an alarm, eh?
Meredith 06.20.07 at 4:38 pm
It’s that thing about being interested in or loving way too many things making it hard to know where to begin. I know that one, too. Big time.
I usually start cleaning the studio (although from your pix you don’t have that outlet!). Once I see what I have going there I’m then tempted to make stuff instead - who would rather put things away than make stuff, right?
The other thing I do is to put any new things I’ve acquired in a pile in the studio for a period of time on purpose. Then I have to go through that pile at some point which always inspires me to use something new which then leads to making something I never had in mind to begin with…and then I’m off. I’ve reached escape velocity!
But now it’s sunny out and that makes it so much more difficult here in Seattle to work inside. And yet here I am on the computer. Hmmmm, message to self: go and make something outside now!