I am coming up on year SEVEN of blogging. Really? SEVEN years! Yup May 30th will be 7 years of blogging...here is my very first entry:
Sunday, May 30, 2004
Welcoming Thoughts
Well, this is a first for me...I just starting seeing these blogs...I know talk about a late bloomer! LOL But some thing about this appeals to me. So I signed up not knowing what the hell I am doing!
Call me crazy! I am used to that label anyway!
I am a Crazy Quilt Artist who is also addicted to embroidery, silk ribbon and beading. I try to remain focused in order to FINISH anything! LOL But alas I have several projects at the same time occurring, and I resent the fact that I have to work full time! Know the feeling? Who on the side loves to write and journal. I have been getting into ATC's and Altered Books. I just don't have enough time during the day to do everything that I want to accomplish.
I guess I am hoping I can use this blog to document the ramblings of my mind and find some common themes running through it all. A sounding board to my own mind...and a place to vent! We all need a place to vent!
Although I can't really complain about my life, I have nothing to complain about! Life is pretty good even on a bad day. That is what happens when you take charge of your own life, and don't let anyone else influence you as to what decisions to make and what you should be doing.
For years (literally YEARS) I allowed other people and what I thought "society" thought - to dictate to me, and to influence my decisions. Not anymore! I knew as the year 2000 approached that my life was going to take on a different direction, not so popular with my family, but very supported by my friends! So I knew I was on the right track! LOL
Now I am not a crisis junkie, I have NO drama in my life...and it is so good! But the only draw back to all this good vibe...is that my artistic side has suffered a lot. Now that is really sick! On some primal level I was more creative with all the crisis and drama in my life. I think mainly because I was trying to escape my life and I was able to do that in making some thing beautiful in the midst of all of life's ugliness.
Now I have more un-finished projects hanging around my studio than I want to admit to people...
Ah, but if I think about it, I have been LIVING life more...getting out of my house and actually living! Doing things that I enjoy...so that in turn gives me more creative idea's to put in my art journal for future projects...maybe when I am retired some day I will have the time to do all the things in my journal!
Any one out there experience the same thing? I can't be the only one! LOL
Not much has changed except the fact that more drama HAS happened in the last year, and I am trying to recover from it. The grief needs to flow out and not come back. I still have to work on some things...but I think I am a better person.