Up in the Air

Sometimes life seems to be up in the air. Having had the summer off and now I am looking head to what the Fall brings. I have some ideas that are in the infant stages and I will be encouraging them to develop into bigger and prosperous entities. Maybe that is why I love mobiles. They are objects suspended in the air and move and flow as the breezes blow them. I try to live my days as if I am a mobile, stationary yet flexible.

Getting started

Sometimes it is difficult to gain the momentum needed to get started. When there isn't a deadline, start date any sort of guidelines, getting going can be a challenge. Every morning I get my coffee, turn on my computer and go blank. I can't remember what it is I was looking forward to finding in the vast landscape of the internet. So, I check my email, look at what exciting things people posted on Facebook (ha) and feel a gnawing that I am supposed to be doing something else. I have a plan that is floating around in my skull, but today, right now I will end this and write it down.

Studios

The differences between my husband and I. His "studio" is filled with hard metallic, sharp edged, electronic items. My "studio" is full of soft, crinkly, wet, and natural objects. Very different rooms between the two of us. However, we both create fantastic new objects from all the parts. Our spaces are a curtained doorway apart so we sing to the same songs, have discussions and sometimes work in silence. The need to create is strong between us and our son too. We can spend days making things and showing one another our new creations and the boys understand one another and I understand only mine, but try to see the magic of a motor making a pen balance a ...

Look what I can do!

This summer of transition for me has been full of sanding the house, garage and barn, swimming, napping, sewing and painting. I found what I love to do! I love to sew and I feel that I am good at it, so it is doubly satisfying. I reorganized my sewing room, studio, office, whatever room and made the closet a place for my Wares. I find that setting up the scene is as much a part of the process as the cutting and sewing or prepping and painting. I enjoy my environment to be beautiful, to me.