Start and finish one creative project every month

since that is my job, they are not for me. I need to do this for myself and “just because”—-not just for other people.

I have this problem when it comes to realization of my ideas. I always start to think of them as not good enough or to complicated to turn them into something real which leads me to not doing anything. so now I want to really work on all of them. and if they not turn out as good as I wanted, I will see them as a practice. most of them have something to do with photographing, but there are also some sewing, graphic and movie projects I thought of.

I have so many artistic pursuits it was inevitable that it would come to this. How many projects on the go? Only a few hundred. I seem to have spent more time collecting supplies and organizing them to make it easier to work. My active pursuits are Art (drawing,watercolors,collage), Paper Arts (scrapbooking,cardmaking,altered art,teaching my Grandchildren about scrapbooking and other arts). Jewelry Design (currently taking a Jewelry Repair and Design course) Sewing (one look in my closet of my studio plus the three Christmas tree sized bins full of fabric shows how many projects I intend to finish). I had a Miniatures for Dollhouses business for many years. I had a catalogue where I sold items all over the world and and I sold my Miniature Art at shows. This I had to give up because of arthritis. Standing on cold concrete floors and creating realistic miniatures in one inch scale was a huge factor. I need to complete at least one project a month at the very least depending on the scope of the project.
Now if I could turn off my computer (Fred) and get busy creating!

This just is not possible for someone like me. I have all of these projects started… I just need to FINISH them… it’s going to be a little while…

These were made from 50-cent thrift-store records. You just melt them over an upside-down metal bowl in the oven on 200 degrees Fahrenheit for a couple of minutes. When you take them out, they cool very quickly and you have about a minute to shape them before they harden up. I like to shape them by pressing them down into another bowl while they harden. Easy!

I wanted to capture my facial expressions when I’m listening to this album I love. I know I’m totally obsessed. First I want to draw it and now I want to take photographs of myself while I’m listening to it. I don’t know if I’ll actually do it; the mechanics of it might ruin it. I mean, fooling with a camera while I’m trying to concentrate on music. It probably wouldn’t work. But it occurred to me that it may not always wring the emotional response out of me that it does now, and I was thinking of how I would grieve that loss, and I wanted to capture it. It would work best if someone were taking the photos for me, but it doesn’t do the same thing to me when I’m listening to it in the presence of another person – only when I’m alone.

I finished my bed last night at 8.30. Well, until I can get more lumber, I’m going to have to do without that really elaborate headboard I have planned, but that is a project in and of itself. So yay me!!

This month is to plan decorate my apartment. (I have no money, so I have to plan it only)

So because of time/distance constraints, this project won’t be completed until the first weekend of July…all I have to do is put the bed together, that will literally take only a few hours because I’m doing the construction completely without metal. Wooden nails. Fun times.

I’ve designed a bed based off an idea from Ikea. I’m going to build it. I’ve already cut and stained the wood, I just need to put it together. This is my goal for June.

due to family commitments, I realise that this goal is too hard basket material at present.