Start and finish one creative project every month

I used to do this regularly, however after some events a few months ago I was completely in a rut. Well, over the past 3 or so weeks I’ve definitely gotten back into the swing of things. I’m creating much more than just a single thing each month, more so at least one each week. All in all I’m very pleased with myself and so therefore I’m considering this goal completed.

Now I am up to several projects a month.

June – hat w/ mittens (done)

July – hip scarf and mittens (done)

August – rug (done)

Sept. – make a vest (done)- dress (done)

Oct. – vest and pants
jean purse (done)
dress (done)

Nov. – slipper socks
sew curtains (done)
Dec. – write

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 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.