Some thoughts...

First, here is my Week 13 card for the DOM challenge. The theme for this week is "what's on your mind."I am not a good sleeper. And it's mostly because I can't turn off my brain. Last night I was up until about 2. I don't toss and turn in bed all night anymore. That just disturbs Morgan. So I got up. The sleeplessness is what inspired my card!

Thought bubbles are a brush called blahblahblaaah by Seishido. The picture I took with the iSight camera on my Mac. Then I colored around each bubble with colored pencil to give them some color and then I filled them in with crystal laquer.

As I mentioned last week I've been reading a book by Sark. The chapter I've been reading is titled the Land of No about all the reasons we don't live our creative dreams. One section in particular spoke to me. It's about procrastination and perfectionism. Perfectionists tend to be procrastinators because they set the bar so high. It's not that they are lazy. And I loved this part... The blessings of perfectionism are that the work is often uncommonly good, if the perfectionist can just get brave or determined enough to share with a sensitive and insightful person. So true isn't it! For so long I didn't share my ideas or things I made because I didn't want to be judged. Or I want ed to get things "perfect". That's why I stopped painting in high school. It was never good enough. Now I realize how silly that is. Art, or any creative endeavor, should be done because it makes the artist happy to do it. She also says that "we can learn new habits of completion". I love that idea too. I've created so much more this year than I have for so long. And I feel so good about it. It makes me happy. And I think because I am creating more and frequently the ideas flow better and all of that makes me like my end products more. Last week I was feeling in a bit of a rut and I just had this awful dread that I had lost "it". My creative mojo. But I think it just ebbs and flows. I think and then I make. And then do it again. One cannot just create like a machine all the time. Then there would be no time for reflection, or refinement, or new ideas. Or just observing. Which is where a lot of my inspiration comes from.

And off to left field!... I have not post any pictures of Owen recently. I've been taking them! But they just haven't gotten on here. So here is my little man "helping" with the laundry!

He loves to kneel by the basket and pull things out. And this day he must have decided that there was enough room for him!