The Flitting Creative Muse

With everything going on of late; transitioning from sewing back to art, trying to rearrange and clean this thing I laughingly refer to as a studio, doing the Wonder-Wife jobs and trying to find my art muse again---who I am pretty sure has decided to head off to Tahiti and is leaving no forwarding address, in a moment of *why-do-I-even-DO-this???* I came across this video, which is 19:32 long, and worth all of it.
It speaks to the creative process, how it has been looked at through the ages, how it is looked at now and what we can do to help ourselves not end up in the bug-bin.......glassy-eyed and filled with a sedative!
I would recommend if you have the time, to watch....or come back and watch later. It is funny along with being informative, and for any artist that has felt like they are in a wine-press, having the creativity squeezed OUT of them drop by drop, it is a good release and laugh, and gives us the impetus to keep moving forward, in a semi-sane fashion.
With humor.
Of course!



I may be scarce for a few days; I am on a bit of a roll in trying to catch up with a years worth of house type things and will have to plan something for Easter so I am calling this my week off. Off my rocker, off most of my work on the computer, off in la-la land......Just OFF! :-D
Maybe mext week I will be a little better organized and full of oomph and pith and ready to go gung ho at the world and the blog again!
In the meantime, enjoy and hopefully I have this properly installed so it plays.
Otherwise, this is going to be one DULL post! LOL!!!
Holiday Blessings to you all.......

Pax.

While I should have been cleaning and finishing the decorating....

...I discovered my friend Jan in Oregon sent me this YouTube video, and I watched it not once, but three times because anyone who has had someone touched by breast cancer will find this uplifting and dang it, I want to go to a hospital where they dance!!! (super job!)

And I heard that apron pattern calling my name again........

... so I chose instead to escape for the afternoon to the studio and play with the short apron in the pattern envelope---I knew that Day of the Dead fabrics would be just right for it. Although this one was in some ways quicker than the other, I screwed up the first set of ties thanks to the *hemming-foot-that-hates-me* and had to redo them, and they still are not stellar, but servicable. Hey, it's a work apron.

There are two pockets on this one, as it just felt unbalanced with one (much like the maker--LOL!!!) and quite by luck I ended up with the little skellie drinking beer, and the bass player as focal points of the pocket! Trust me, this was not planned.....
Again, it was fly by the seat of your pants sewing day, and then it was go clean up the mess started in the kitchen, in the process of thinning out junk that somehow breeds at an appalling rate.
I have to run the sweeper, which the Keets HATE....it is war, usually when Mr. Sweeper comes to visit, but the house is in desperate need.
I have hit that time of year when I cannot think and don't want to do what I have to; I am doing my imitation of a naughty child misbehaving before the Holidays.
Which is okay......get it out of my system now.
Now gentle readers, it is back to the real salt mines for me; since I played, the house fairy didn't show up, soooooo........
Off to clean.
I'm hoping you're creating something fun and wonderful instead! Or at least, go dance!

Pax.