The muse is erupting... if they do that??

So I always say that I make jewelry because I have a toddler and making jewelry is quick and easy - and painting is, well, ... messy.

But these days I see faces and art everywhere... in the way snow falls,
the sunset on a cold day, the loneliness of a snow-covered lawn chair ...

the light hitting the plaster on the ceiling above my bed.. it's getting really hard to refuse

this muse...

what if we could combine elements of all these photos? I ask myself...

and then carry on my way.

(ahem, can you say that? refuse the muse...)

I have reams of landscape photos, reams and reams of them, that I could/should be using for painting inspiration, but alas... this is as far as I've gotten.

anyway...

I even have an artsy friend who calls and emails me to see when I want to get together to draw,

or paint.

REALLY.

Could it BE any easier?

But do I do anything? ...no... I say in a very little voice.

One of these days, when the fence is finished (it blew down last week) and my toddler's been quelled, by toys and cookies, then maybe,

just maybe...

I'll pick up my sketchbook & one of those pencils I have stashed everywhere around the house

(seriously, I have them in a tin on the shelf above the toilet! I mean everywhere)

and answer this muse's call...


..before she's forced to hit me with a shovel or something!

Returning to the Blog

So I haven't been on in a year... crazy...

Cause I have been checking in on the blogs I follow. I just haven't been writing any thoughts. So unlike me!

My guy is going to be two.

And everyone around me is having their second. So far my daydreams involving two children are VERY stressed! So I'm going to have to say I'm not ready for that adventure yet.

I'm meeting lots of new moms and starting working on my business. I make jewelry and art. I am just starting with teaching jewelry making and offering my artistic services in the nursery prep arena. So cross your fingers for me.