Desk Disaster Friday

OK, I know its Sunday afternoon, not Friday, but if you will recall from my last Desk Disaster post I have CD (chronic disorganization). Its a syndrome. Don't judge.

I do want to report that I actually spent an hour cleaning this week. I set a timer. I

have my limits.

In all honesty a box of things got knocked down when I was letting the dog out. Assorted beads and bead paraphernalia went rolling across the floor which inspired a dose of stink eye from my husband. Don't get me started. He hardly has room to stink eye anybody. He doesn't even have a syndrome unless you count testosterone as an affliction, but I digress.

I did make some progress cutting through a small slice of chaos.

You can actually see "table" on my table.

I am gathering up many orphans and vagabonds and will have a giant sale when they are sorted.

Have you made any progress in your attempt to address your mess? or are you just going with the flow?

We have a flickr group! Post your mess!

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Desk Disaster Friday

Ok people it's time to get naked. I have seen your your neat little piles of beads and such that are on your desk . I have seen your Bead Table Wednesday and I laugh.

Ha ha. I laugh at your messes. You are all amateurs. Your messes cannot even compete with mine.

So I dare you. I DOUBLE DARE you . Show me your Desk Disasters. Are you brave enough? are you messed up enough? are you also in a state of chronic disorganization?

Did you know there is a clinical name for it? Its called CD (chronic disorganization). Its a syndrome. I'm not making this shit up. You can Google it.

So if you are willing to play along with me I will post the condition of my desk every Friday and I vow to get on top of this disaster and conquer it.

I know I am not the only one out there. Especially when it comes to our creative spaces.

The rest of my house does not look like this. Its not up to Martha Stewart standers, but it is generally not a fucking disaster either, but when it come to my creative space, it looks like my mind had exploded in 3-D.

Come on admit I know some of you are just like me. Lets post our disasters and lets see if we and find a way to tame the beast.

Who wants to play?

We have a flickr group! post your mess!

Out With The Old, In With The New

reinvent redefine rediscover recharge reexamine

Its that time of the year again. Things are going to change. I need a fresh start.

I am going to redo the website,(If its disappears for a while, don't worry, it will be back). I am getting rid of old styles that are just not "me" anymore.

I've had some of these beads for 10 years and they no longer make me feel good. Some still resonate with me and I will keep them, perhaps tweak them, but it will be a conscious decision and not "just because".

A lot of these things have been a heavy weight on me. I need to breathe again and allow myself the freedom to create.

I honestly don't know what that will be. Clay makes me happy but I will be exploring more media keep the winter blues at bay.

Maybe its because its the end of the year. Maybe because I realize how old I am and how fast time slides by.

So many people I care about have experienced loss in this past year. Loss of their homes, loss of their beloved pets and even loss of their earthly life.

It has made me reexamine my own life and my own direction and I hope it has made me brave.

Wishing everyone a sweet New Year.

time to change, time to shine

I have been thinking a lot about change lately. Its easy to do what works and not risk failure. As an artist there is a trap in being successful. You begin to get too comfortable.

I feel ready to change a lot of things. It is exhilarating and sad too. I will be saying goodbye to some things that I have done for a long time that are almost a part of me, like chopping off pretty long hair because you have hung on to it for so long you forget what made you grow it out in the first place, but you know you really wanted it at some point.

I will be placing a lot of beads on Etsy at special prices for the Holidays to move a lot of my stock. I am not sure what my beads will look like next year, but I know there will be changes.

Also, I have been making these "spirit dolls" or figures like this one for many years. People have loved and collected them, and I have been very fortunate to have found a following with them. But all things come to an end. And I don't think I will make any more of these. Or if I do they will be in a different and yet to be explored incarnation.

Anyway, you have a chance to acquire one of these figures before they are gone. I have just a few left in my stock and I have decided that I would like to use the opportunity to do some good as I let this work go.

So stay tuned I'll announce how you can get one of the last of these and help a fellow artist with his enormous medical bills.

Things Change

Well is suddenly turned cold and wet. I don't know why this always comes as a shock to me. Fall happens every year with regularity.

It happens to be a wonderful season here in Michigan with the beautiful colors. Somehow they always surprise me too with their generosity of golds and crimsons.

I have been thinking about change lately. Its not always easy to embrace the changes you don't plan, but like the seasons they give way to wondrous things.

I have changed some of my sculptural works, specifically my dolls

Here is a link to the process at Watch Me Create