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Hello

Hi.  Remember me?

I am coming up for air after a long flu (yuck), and now I am swamped with work (of the tax season nature).  But I wanted to share my new love of Photo Booth (love the MacBook!)::

I am also supposed to be taking an encaustic class in a couple of weeks, for my upcoming birthday (hello 35! yikes!), and I have been finishing up some paintings.  I am hoping to just get out of my usual January funk (always a hard month here:: not enough daylight hours or something to do with the angle of the earth to the sun and our place in orbit:: something like that).  Here's to spring!  I am ready!

A Two Year Old Runs My Life

Hello.

Just a quick pop in to say sorry I haven't been around, but it seems my son, all two years and nine months of him, is going through some growing pains.  He is out of diapers, and into tantrums.  All day long.  They start early, and I am wiped by 4 PM.  So I will be back next week, I hope, to share more when I have the energy.

Oh, but I did want to mention that they are saving Polaroid!!!!!! I read about it here [via Shutter Sisters].  Yahoo!:: now this is something to celebrate!

Flu

I just wanted to pop in and say we are still recovering from the flu, and I will be back soon!  Hope you are healthy out there!

Fever In, Fever Out

We are having a little warm spell in our spot of California, and of course, my kids are now sick.  Always such magical timing!

So what have I been up to?  I am knee deep in attempting to get organized: I have all this paper work that needs a system:: art ideas and house ideas and parenting articles, and acupuncture references... you get the picture  So I am working on a system for that.  I also suddenly have some work that needs to be done (one of my many little "side jobs" that I do), and other ideas I need to flesh out.  This is a year of committing to these ideas, as I mentioned before.   Oh, and then there are these little people to care for, and a house to clean, and paintings sitting in the studio waiting for me to come and play.  

So how does one keep it all together and stay inspired?  Here is what I have  been reading::

:::project 365 at Shutter Sisters, and this article at Shutter Sisters about shooting soft.

::: Twyla Tharp's The Creative Habit: this book walks you through her creative process, and it is fantastic, no matter what medium you work in.

::: I love to see what Michelle is making over at Green Kitchen- she is always inspiring...

::: And Design for Mankind is always full of incredible ideas, and Erin finds the coolest artists ever.

Need more ideas?  Check out the artists in my art love  side bar, and the blogs in the blog love sidebar. 

May your day be full of ideas!

Word of the Year

So here we are, the new year is here, and I am thinking of the resolutions I want to make, or not make, for that matter.  An artist I know sent me this great email about a tradition of picking out a new word for the year every year, and trying to follow through with a word as inspiration for the year... and so it got me thinking about what my word might be.

Although I really like the word create, I think my word this year is going to have to be commit.  Committing to producing art, shooting more photos, committing to really getting back into yoga, to being a calm and patient parent.  Committing to having fun, trying new things, and making creativity a daily habit.  Committing to knitting more, buying less, and eating things homemade.  Committing to figuring out when I might go back to Acupuncture, committing to a new project or two (collaborative maybe?).  It's cool, because you can just apply your word for the year to everything you do.

In a week or so I hope to have my etsy shop running, just in time for a big birthday (mine, yikes!), and an upcoming blog-iversary (can it really be almost four years blogging?).

What are you thinking of for the new year?