It's the best day of the week, as far as I'm concerned, Friday. The end of the work week. I worked from home yesterday, that was good, then this morning called in sick with a nasty cold I caught from some germs somewhere. Tresa had a cold starting Monday, and I started getting mine on Thursday. So I stayed home today, doped up on Benadril. My daughter went to the store and bought me some chicken noodle soup for dinner, then out she went for minature golf with her friends. She's a good daughter.
I've been perusing a few stamping catalogs today, Close to My Heart, and Stampin' Up. I love both of their lines, and if I had tons of extra money I think I'd buy everything they both have to offer. They have excellent ideas, use wonderful creative processes, and provide me with lots of creative anxiety to get busy. I go to a few websites on a daily basis and get my dose of creativity and enthusiasm from these other sites. I follow Ali Edwards, Jennifer McGuire, Becky Higgins, Tim Holtz (talk about your creative genius). These are very creative and busy folks, posting projects, pictures, thoughts and ideas almost every day, inspiring the multitudes of people out there just looking for some creative juices to get flowing.
I love creating my own scrapbooks, scrapbooks to sell, and cards to sell. I have a following of friends at work that order cards on a regular basis (I made my cruise spending money on cards and a scrapbook order for friends at work). It can be lucrative, so I need to concentrate a little harder on getting a business going. I just want to make sure I don't take the fun out of it, and make it just another job to do. I've always loved doing many different crafts throughout my life, I got my love of crafts from my grandmother who used to do mosaics, quilting, sewing, knitting and crochet, and resin lamps (remember those molds you would fill with resin to make say a grape lamp). Anyway, when I was in high school, my brother saw that I had a gift and a love of painting, took me over to San Francisco one weekend and bought me paints, brushes, canvas and got me started painting.
From there over the years I have learned how to oil/watercolor/acrylic paint, paint handblown eggs, paint china (ceramics), and anything that will hold paint. I have learned to crochet, knit, quilt, woodwork, build houses, bead, cross-stitch, needlepoint, macrame (now that takes me back many years) you name it, I have tried most things. I seem to have tried most crafts, loved most of them, and have leftover "stuff" that I don't use anymore. I am in the process of narrowing down the number of crafts I do to those I can count on just one hand. I don't have the time nor the desire to do all those things any more, but I do still love to paint, on canvas and especially china paint. I took classes for about 3 years from a private teacher and fell in love with the art (fine art). I don't think I will ever give that up. But I do have lots of craft stuff that I think I will donate to our church camp and let the kids have a go at.
Anyway, I have 2 days over the weekend to attempt to get creative. I have some card orders I need to get complete, some Algebra studying to do (that's not creative as far as I'm concerned), and my scrapbook stuff from the cruise to put away. My craft room is a mess, and I need to get it cleaned up...
Anyway, have a great weekend and be creative in your own way.
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