Life is moving way too fast and also not at all. This summer I will celebrate my 7th year in Charlotte, exchange rings and vows with my partner, and pack up my perfect house to move to Philadelphia. Bittersweet is an understatement but overall, I am excited for a hard reset on what is becoming a stagnant life in NC.
I am attempting to get back into journaling/documenting and this website is my accountability partner. I’ve been fighting feelings of discouragement and what’s-the-point and just overall defeat when it comes to Making. I struggle with balancing work/social/relationship/self and have put making anything on the back burner for years at this point. So this spring I’ve made a conscious effort to just make SOMETHING as often as I can. Even doodling for 10 minutes is something I’ve been depriving myself of.
TLDR; I’ve let my fear of not finishing impede me from even starting.
So finally, here is my little update on what I've been up to this month;
I have picked up a few pen pals, something I was active with as a kid, and am really enjoying making stationery and packing little bundles of ephemera.
I found an old tub of air dry clay while cleaning out my workspace. I had originally used this last winter to practice for the oven-bake clay magnets I made my friends and family for Christmas. I experimented with some vessels that dried up as I worked with them and then made a ton of slip and a foil form to try to play with figure sculpting.
This was all enjoyable until I forgot to spray her down for two days while I was at my job and came back to a fissured and crumbling mess. Aside from that, I have been spending most of my free time planning and designing invitations for my upcoming elopement/going-away party. Once that is all done I can move on to the herculean task of setting up a website for this little journal entry to live. If ur reading this, I was successful.
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