A friend I met on Facebook, who owns a creative arts studio, has been asking me to teach some classes. I haven't summoned up my courage to teach a class yet, but hopefully will summon the courage soon. She also wants me to join the Art Collaborative of Wakefield, a group of locally based artisans. I have put it off for some time, but am now, really considering joining. I am hopefully going to meet a bunch of people who are part of the collaborative on Saturday.
I am still nervous that I am not enough of an "artist". If anything, I consider myself a handcraft artisan. But, in reality, I don't know that I feel like an artist or an artisan. I wonder if I am still just thinking that this is a hobby but I want it to be more. I want to make it more of a central part of my life.
With that being said, I think a large part of my issue is time. I have 3 kids, a husband, a house, a part time social work job, and making handcrafted items. I spend way too much time on the computer and not enough time doing what I should be doing. I plan to unplug for a little bit. I am only join to use Facebook for when I need to communicate with others and that is my only means. I have enough projects that I can work on, I don't need to look for more. I plan to quickly blog, but no spend too much time reading blogs. I plan to limit myself to maybe an hour a day and that is a lot. The internet is a wonderful thing, but it can be too addicting. no more spending hours on pinterest and pinning things that I never actually work on. I will still go on pinterest, but will again limit my time.
My hope is that if I spend more time creating and less time pretending to create (by being on the computer looking for things to create), I will start to feel more like an artisan and not just a hobby crafter! Maybe then I won't feel like I don't belong in the collaborative.
Amy
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Wishcasting Wednesdays
Every so often, I join in with Jamie at http://www.jamieridlerstudios.ca for Wishcasting Wednesday. This helps me to focus on where I want my life to go and what dreams, goals, and passions I have. This week Jamie asks: "What do you wish to work on?".
I could answer this in so many ways. The way I am going to answer this week is: I want to work on making time to do the things I love to do!
I want to try to continue to get more organized to be able to have more free time to do the things I love to do. I want to feel free to go fun places with my kids. I want to budget my money better so that I have money to do things with the kids. I want to make time to work on the different creative things that I want to do; sew, embroider, knit, paper crafts, jewelry, learning new crafts, etc. I want to work on making time to spend more special time with my husband like having a date night more often (hopefully the warmer weather will help with what to do). I want to work on making things to sell. I want to work on getting healthy and staying healthy. I have a herniated disc that pretty much makes me not want to do anything for the last couple of months. I miss running, even though I never really ran a lot. Now that I can't run, it's all I want to do. I'm hoping that after my back gets better, I can work on my running and get to enjoy it again like I was before I stopped!
I guess there are a lot of things that I want to work on, but unless I work on making more time and getting organized, none of it will happen.
I just read a couple of fellow wishcasting posts and it reminded me of another goal that I guess I should put down in writing. I want to work on utilizing my love of creativity in my social work profession and I want to work on figuring out how to have a brick and mortar studio and gallery for my community. I want to have a gallery that people can show off what they create and not worry about it being good enough; the fact that they created it makes it good enough!
What do you wish to work on?
Amy
I could answer this in so many ways. The way I am going to answer this week is: I want to work on making time to do the things I love to do!
I want to try to continue to get more organized to be able to have more free time to do the things I love to do. I want to feel free to go fun places with my kids. I want to budget my money better so that I have money to do things with the kids. I want to make time to work on the different creative things that I want to do; sew, embroider, knit, paper crafts, jewelry, learning new crafts, etc. I want to work on making time to spend more special time with my husband like having a date night more often (hopefully the warmer weather will help with what to do). I want to work on making things to sell. I want to work on getting healthy and staying healthy. I have a herniated disc that pretty much makes me not want to do anything for the last couple of months. I miss running, even though I never really ran a lot. Now that I can't run, it's all I want to do. I'm hoping that after my back gets better, I can work on my running and get to enjoy it again like I was before I stopped!
I guess there are a lot of things that I want to work on, but unless I work on making more time and getting organized, none of it will happen.
I just read a couple of fellow wishcasting posts and it reminded me of another goal that I guess I should put down in writing. I want to work on utilizing my love of creativity in my social work profession and I want to work on figuring out how to have a brick and mortar studio and gallery for my community. I want to have a gallery that people can show off what they create and not worry about it being good enough; the fact that they created it makes it good enough!
What do you wish to work on?
Amy
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Wishcasting Wednesday: Who do you wish to have tea with?
It's Wednesday once again, and once again I am going in with Wishcasting Wednesday over at jamieridlersturdios.ca. this week Jamie asks "Who do you wish to have tea with?"
I contemplated skipping this week, but the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to join in. I read other people's post about who they ward to have tea with. Some had some amazingly famous people and some had some amazing important people in their lives i.e., their significant other and even themselves. It really made me think about who I would like to have tea with.
I could come up with some amazingly famous people, but as awesome as that would be, I think I would love to sit and enjoy a simple cup of tea with just my husband. With 3 little kids, 3 1/2 and under, it can be difficult to find time for just us. I would love to make it a huge deal and have a nice quiet, romantic time, where it is just the two of us, where we are not too tired to enjoy each others company, where we can just enjoy being together.
My husband and I are tea drinkers. For my birthday last year, I got an amazing cast iron tea set with dragon flies on it. It was really expensive and really nice quality. That being said, I don't use it nearly enough! I wish to get away from drinking the coffee that I stupidly started again and start really enjoying my tea. I wish to make time to use my tea set and enjoy a nice simple yet perfect cup of tea with one of the most important people in my life (the most important other than my children), my husband!
I contemplated skipping this week, but the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to join in. I read other people's post about who they ward to have tea with. Some had some amazingly famous people and some had some amazing important people in their lives i.e., their significant other and even themselves. It really made me think about who I would like to have tea with.
I could come up with some amazingly famous people, but as awesome as that would be, I think I would love to sit and enjoy a simple cup of tea with just my husband. With 3 little kids, 3 1/2 and under, it can be difficult to find time for just us. I would love to make it a huge deal and have a nice quiet, romantic time, where it is just the two of us, where we are not too tired to enjoy each others company, where we can just enjoy being together.
My husband and I are tea drinkers. For my birthday last year, I got an amazing cast iron tea set with dragon flies on it. It was really expensive and really nice quality. That being said, I don't use it nearly enough! I wish to get away from drinking the coffee that I stupidly started again and start really enjoying my tea. I wish to make time to use my tea set and enjoy a nice simple yet perfect cup of tea with one of the most important people in my life (the most important other than my children), my husband!
My tea set that I need to start using more often!
Amy
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Wishcasting Wednesday: What do you wish to make time for?
This is such a loaded question. Jamie, over at jamieridlerstudios.ca, asks, "What do you wish to make time for?"
There are so many things that I need to make time for. I need to make time to pursue my dreams, organize my life, spending time with my husband with no one to interrupt us, getting my chores on track (especially laundry), time for exercise and meditation, creating, etc. Part of me thinks that there is just not enough time for all the things that I want to do, but then there is another part of me that says I just need to lower my expectations and make time, even if it is just a small amount of time. Sometimes I think that I expect everything to be perfect and then I don't do anything, because I know it won't be perfect. Sometimes I think I sabotage myself with my expectations.
I wish to make time for all the things that I want/need out of life, just with lowered expectations. I also wish to make time to figure out who I really am and what I really want out of life (which is pretty obscure and why I wrote down some of the concrete things that I know I need and want to make time for).
Amy
There are so many things that I need to make time for. I need to make time to pursue my dreams, organize my life, spending time with my husband with no one to interrupt us, getting my chores on track (especially laundry), time for exercise and meditation, creating, etc. Part of me thinks that there is just not enough time for all the things that I want to do, but then there is another part of me that says I just need to lower my expectations and make time, even if it is just a small amount of time. Sometimes I think that I expect everything to be perfect and then I don't do anything, because I know it won't be perfect. Sometimes I think I sabotage myself with my expectations.
I wish to make time for all the things that I want/need out of life, just with lowered expectations. I also wish to make time to figure out who I really am and what I really want out of life (which is pretty obscure and why I wrote down some of the concrete things that I know I need and want to make time for).
Amy
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Wishcasting Wednesday: How do you wish to spend some time?
Jamie Rider at jamieridlerstudios.ca asks "How do you wish to spend some time?"
This is a fabulous question for me. When I first saw the question, I thought sleeping! Now that I think more about it, I think I wish to spend time doing the things that I love to do, but never have enough time to do. With 3 kids under 3, there are so many other things that I need to do, I never or rarely ever get to do the things I love to do. I would love to have time to spend in my garden and enjoy the flowers that I have. I would love to spend time learning how to decorate cakes. I would love to spend time scrapbooking the pictures of my children and even my wedding. I would love to take a creative class in something new. I would love to get a massage. And, yes, I would love to spend some time sleeping with out worrying about the kids waking up.
How do you wish to spend your time?
Amy
This is a fabulous question for me. When I first saw the question, I thought sleeping! Now that I think more about it, I think I wish to spend time doing the things that I love to do, but never have enough time to do. With 3 kids under 3, there are so many other things that I need to do, I never or rarely ever get to do the things I love to do. I would love to have time to spend in my garden and enjoy the flowers that I have. I would love to spend time learning how to decorate cakes. I would love to spend time scrapbooking the pictures of my children and even my wedding. I would love to take a creative class in something new. I would love to get a massage. And, yes, I would love to spend some time sleeping with out worrying about the kids waking up.
How do you wish to spend your time?
Amy
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Creating
I love to be creative! I just don't have the time right now. I am still working on Eva Rose's sweater for her Baptism and then to actually make the boys outfit! Thankfully the patterns are simple. Hopefully, they are going to look good and will look enough like Christening outfits. Then I have to make a guest book for my sister's wedding and hopefully she'll like it. Then I need to make halloween costumes for Eva Rose and Michael. Hopefully, Thomas will be able to use Michael's from last year, but I am afraid that I will have to make one for him also. We are planning on the kids all being characters from the Wizard of Oz. I have a scarecrow and need to make Dorothy and either another scarecrow or lion, maybe 2! Then there are the multiple scrapbooks for my wedding, and all the kids, never mind wanting to learn to make soap for the family!
So much to do and not enough time to do it! I will try to find time to be creative and enjoy it not to just do it!
Amy
So much to do and not enough time to do it! I will try to find time to be creative and enjoy it not to just do it!
Amy
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