Taken on the Ferry to Kingston, WA

I’m working hard on getting the mural finished, website updated, my studio back in order, and travel plans all set. Oh yeah, also trying to hold it all together as my life has been on some shaky ground lately. Will be a little quiet around here in the next couple weeks. I have some awesome things planned though, so stay tuned. (sorry don’t mean to tease)

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I am back, from you guessed it Seattle, Washington. Also took a day trip up to Vancouver, British Columbia. I am still playing catch-up over here between work, and non-work related stuff. Have some big (well huge news for me) to share with you in the coming week. So stay tuned, stop on by and I hope to finally get around to reading all the wonderful new blogs I have found recently. Can’t wait to spend a lazy Sunday surfing the web…for now enjoy the photos. Many, many more to come.

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Life that is. Sunrises and sunsets the days are passing quickly, and with starting a new job as well as the holidays setting in life has been at a frantic pace. I really am hoping to find more time for blogging, art, and a little relaxation once things settle down a bit, but for now I am just riding this wave letting life have its ebb and flow and trying hard not to freak out that I am letting my art fall by the wayside along with many other things.

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Last year at SAW I came back ready to take on the world, recharged, and just a felt a big push in the right direction. A lot changed after squam last year for me, even my art. This year was completely different. I am not sure I expected to get that same big push as last year, but now in the post squam afterglow I feel like I am where I need to be, moving at the pace I am suppose to be moving at, and that trying to force any of it right now isn’t necessary. It was exactly what I needed at this exact time.

I have never felt like this before, and I am trying to make sense of it all in my head. The thought of working at my own pace and not rushing, not making up deadlines and setting overwhelming goals and to do lists is something I have always thought would be there. The feeling that I am behind no matter how much I accomplish. All those feelings somehow disapeared while I created, let go, and played in my classes. Somewhere between carving into clayboard, painting faces upside down in my journal, and creating books with duct tape and chipboard, all those irrational thoughts and feelings went away. Now four days later they have yet to resurface and I like to think that I left them behind to float off on Squam Lake.

So no big epiphany or major aha moment, just some little shifts that are already making a huge difference.

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I am back from S.A.W. Need time to process all that the past five days held. A quick little list and some photos for now…

• time spent creating using new methods and mediums
• fell in love with journaling thanks to Judy Wise
• caught up with some familiar faces and
• met some new amazingly talented people (more on this later)
• froze my butt off in a room that was basically a screen porch
• sitting on docks
• having an inspiring first time vending at vendor night
• feeling supported within this creative community
• sitting by a fire creating art
• filling up on great food
• coming home exhausted but energized

That about wraps up my list for now, so many stories to share, more to come soon.

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