Blogging, Intention, Results

A successful day in the studio yesterday -- my friend Michael came over and photographed me at work, and just seemed to have a fun old time playing with his camera. Michael's kind of like me in that he left a great love (his, photography; mine, creating art) behind a number of years ago and is just getting back to it. Actually, I've been hammering him about it for a few years, and keep trying to create situations so he gets the chance to use it, not lose it. And I get photos of myself or my artwork. So far we are both happy about it. We may even collaborate on some piece of art together on down the road.

So, what I'm aware of is that I have achieved at least three things that I set as goals in earlier posts: clean up my art studio; meet with Linadria around marketing my jewelry biz; and have Michael photograph the studio. Yahooooo! Why there seems to be a trend here -- just set a goal in a blog entry, go see what happens, then write about the results. Intention does work -- at least in cyberworld! Magic!

The 3-D Oriel posted above, The Actress and the Critic, was finished this week, too. You can find it in my Etsy Kentucky Girl Shop.

Exercise, Coffee...and Chocolate!

AFTER...

BEFORE...

Well, I shook off my stupor and burned through another 2 areas of my studio: my soldering station and the "embellishing" station (charms, crystals, beads way station and general catch all for supplies that I pull out -- see "before" photo!). How did I manage to reverse the lethargy?

1. Did 20 minutes of stretching exercises (Egoscue-yoga-sports stretches pioneered by my friend Jen Fuller, see link)
2. Chocolate.
3. A Walk/Run (even impressed myself with this) around Deer Island
4. More chocolate.
5. A Peet's coffee.
6. And still more chocolate!

Whatever works -- it was good mix and once I started with one area the other just fell into place. I still have to put in another 3 or 4 hours before it's ready for Linadria's visit.

Better get off the internet. Ciao!

After the Headway Comes the Lull

OK, this is what happens with me. I make great headway and then I slack off. I have no energy today, everything is a blur, I feel like I'm coming down with a cold....yada.. yada... yada.

Time to pull up the bootstraps again! What could I do to shift my energy?

List of possibilities:

• Do my Egoscue exercises
• Go for a walk/run around Deer Island
  
• Work on my Pole Dance choreography
  
• Go get a cup of Peet's coffee
• Complete one of my oriels
• Start cleaning up another area of my art studio
• Eat some chocolate
  

Can you guess which one I am going to do? Later....