I was checking up on the blogs I love to read, and on How About Orange, Jessica included a link to this quiz. I took it, and wasn’t surprised.
Creativity is separate from the real world for you. But it’s a magical world in which you like to immerse yourself. When you’re involved in it, you get the wonderful sensation that there are no limits, that anything is possible. What you are really looking for is harmony — you want to feel you are a part of what you create. Planting flowers, writing poetry, embroidery or putting together a photo album, these are all suited to your sort of quiet creativity. You want to fall in love with what you create. You also think of creativity as a part of you in which you can take refuge and feel protected. As the psychoanalyst D Anzieu explained, creativity acts as an ‘encouraging parent — loving, enriching and supportive’. You would love to use your creativity to retreat into a world that is kind and reassuring. For you, being creative means having the chance to become one with what you create, bathe in the glory of it and allow yourself to be taken over by it. This is why you seem more suited to the sort of creativity that calls for gentleness, subtlety, harmony and patience.”
Take the quiz, please, I want to know what it means to you, too.
Coming soon- a new website! My uber talented and amazingly generous sister, Abbi Peters, did me a solid by removing the website design from my hands. We used Patterncooler to create the backgrounds and patterns used, and Wix to create the actual site. I was getting so bogged down between creating the patterns (mesmerizing, you could lose hours to Patterncooler) and just not being familiar enough with Wix, she swooped in and in a day, had it pretty much ready to go. Once it is running, you will be able to use my domain pulledsugardesigns.com to access my store, my blog, to contact me and see a gallery of work. I am in the process of getting the photos into my flickr account. Then I will have to redo my store, and the blog, because the current themes do not jibe with my new site’s feel. When you decide to undertake such a thing, you never realize how much work you are creating for yourself, until you are really invested.
So, that’s what is going on here (oh, I also have a gorgeous new nephew, welcome to the world Luke). What’s up with you?
Long time no post, I know. I started this post in the beginning of May, and never got back to it. I made bunches of jewelry in April (for the ECCOTA Gallery), but for various reasons, took pictures of nothing. My life is pretty scattered right now, and here is an example of how.
So I have this miniature dachshund. She is nine. This dog is a giant pain in the ass on paper, but I love her to pieces. She is admittedly a replacement for the kids I don’t have. I try not to anthropomorphize her too much, but she does have a lovely sweater collection (she gets cold in the winter) and she has some really cute Halloween costumes.
About four years ago, she injured her back, and had spinal surgery. The surgery was an amazing success. She went from being almost completely paralyzed in her back end, to regaining 90% strength in her hindquarters. These past four years, I have always accepted, in a back corner of my mind, that she would probably lose use of her hind legs some day. A spinal injury is so fickle, she could reinjure it playing too hard, or scar tissue from the incision could cause pressure on the spinal column, you never know.
In early May, she started favoring her back left leg. I could not find anything wrong with it. Then I noticed that when she walked, her hind end was less in sync with the front than usual. Mother’s Day weekend my hubby and I traveled and left her with a dear, dear family, who care for her as if their own. When we got back she hadn’t deteriorated, but she hadn’t improved. That next Sunday morning she was the best she been in a while, really wanting to play. When I came home later that afternoon though, she had gotten worse, now favoring her right side, but the left side wasn’t strong enough to support the entire works. This means she was dragging herself around, with that one back leg making feeble attempts to help her scoot. Well, long story marginally not as long, she is back to normal again, but for a month I was dealing with a dog with so-so bladder control, scooting around, acting like nothing was wrong. That is taxing on a lady’s energy.
I am feeling very drained lately. Not physically, but in my psyche. I’ve got a couple of things using up my mental energy, and I’m not sure when that will be over. I made a commissioned piece recently, and thankfully it was based on another piece I had made, or I don’t know what I would have done. I don’t know if I could have pulled an entire design out of thin air. I hate feeling like this. I know it will pass, but I feel guilty when I have an opportunity to be at my bench, but I pass it up with a wan “I don’t feel it”. It is so lame, but I have learned that when I am in this type of funk, I am much better off riding the wave. Forcing myself to make stuff usually ends in ugly, tortured metal. I did sit down this past weekend for a bit. I had some leftover fine silver rings, and I fashioned them into an acceptable necklace (again, nary a picture). I am still working on the clasp, but I think there may be a light at the end of this tunnel.
Or, it could just be a train….
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