Artisan Show This Weekend

It's our show this weekend and I have very few things to offer.  Cards ... lots of those ... new designs that are silly.  Note cards ... they're not silly, they're practical.  And my little books - five in the series now - two more coming.  The second volume of LIFE LINES, and a new one, bigger one to boot.

After this, my intention is to jump into creating with both feet.
I am feeling a major NEED to be creative.

Life Lines

So really ... how pathetic is this - my last post in FEBRUARY.  Have I been 'CreatEV' since then.  Barely it seems. The year seems to have slipped through my fingers with very little time or focus on creativity. Who am I kidding ... 'Very Little'.  Try - NONE.  I haven't even been up to my studio since April.  I'm hoping/planning/expecting that to change with the Christmas season coming up.

The only thing I really have accomplished these past months is to start a little line of books. I'll have them for sale at our 'In the Spirit' show on the weekend after Thanksgiving.  Perhaps one day I'll figure out how to put a link to them here as well.

Two of them are tiny little 'pocket books' - the size of a business card - with quotes and my 'clothesline' collection. They're entitled 'LIFE LINES'.  There's a little bigger one in the works with the same theme.  So I have been busy playing pictures a little bit, but it's the hands on stuff I've got to get at.

So Much For Creating....

Two full months since I posted anything here.

It's not that I've let it go by the wayside ...

I'm actually NOT creating at the moment.

Been working full time at a Real Job.

I'm hoping to get back to producing in March.

In the meantime, sharing a wonderful figure

that my amazingly talented artist friend:

Anne Robin Luckett

from Mississippi

made at our Creativity Retreat in January.

Addiction

I make a point

of staying away from fabric stores.

All that material is magnetic

to my eyes and my fingers.

I collect fabric.

I don’t like sewing.

I’m just addicted

to the

colour & texture.

I know my weakness.

I have not entered a fabric store all year.

I already have enough

for three lifetimes.

At this last minute, I decided that I need to make

my grandbabes a Christmas stocking.

I kept piling the fabric on the table.

The clerk asked what I was making.

‘Christmas Stockings.’  I replied.

‘HOW MANY?’  she questioned.

‘Just five.’

She sighed and started cutting.

I sighed too.

Sucked me in again.

One Last Set

The last set of the year

that will be emigrating to

the US of A.

Five days til Christmas Eve...

time for me to start my preparations. 

Staying Close By

This piece is not going very far from home at all.

He’s staying in Avonbank,

just down the road

a bit.

Packing

I really love the task of packing up my creations

to send off to their new home.

It's not something that I rush through.

I take great care to

wrap each one carefully and lovingly.

It’s the last time I’ll see them after

all that time we spend together.

I love to imagine them arriving;

The box being opened;

The packages unwrapped.

My hands to their hands.

My home to their home.

My heart to their heart.

It’s a funny thing to imagine

something you’ve created

in someone else's home.

A lovely & wonderful thing.