If my hands are candles, they are burning at both ends these days.
I am proceeding with my shop update tomorrow at 12 noon, mountain time! I hope you’ll swing by.
I will be listing my little wolf pack as well as one Saint Wapiti Necklace — a straggler from the batch I was working on before Christmas (that seems so long ago now). I have plenty of other bits and pieces finished but am hanging onto everything outside of the wolf work until I can increase the volume of a couple series and further explore a few design ideas. I don’t want to rush through anything or pass over any rabbit trails. Getting back into the swing of things here has been a savage old fight — self against self.
I will testify to the fact that creative bottlenecking is a very real thing! After being away from the studio for the better part of two months, I shot off in over a dozen different directions in my first week back at work and the finished pieces I have laid out on the studio tables are evidence — it’s all over the place, more than usual. It’s like I opened up my mind and heart and instead of a slow trickle of ideas, there was a cacophonous explosion that left me reeling…too many different things all at once, a lot of frustration, a bit of chaos, a handful of sleepless nights…
Work has simmered down now and I’m feeling slightly more routinized which is quite lovely. I’m going out to the studio like a steady old mule now instead of a velociraptor with seventeen arms and firecrackers in its ears. I exhaust myself.
{I made a pizza for dinner. Sometimes I just have to have a pizza.}
Until Tomorrow!
X
at a loss for words.
by far the best post ever.
and, yes. sometimes a body needs pizza.
see you ’round the next fallen log….
xx
I’ve been living on big batches of soup lately.
It felt good to sink my teeth into something of substance.
🙂
X
Oh wow! Such beautiful pieces! I especially love the saint wapiti necklace. Your pictures are just awesome! The one before the last one would make a lovely postcard! Oh, loving your outfit by the way!
I like how that one turned out, too. So much!
X
Looking really lovely, these ones. I know the feeling. It’s always so hard to find the balance between allowing your creative urges to take over and the steady slogging of finishing things and taking time to work on things. I have my alarm set and hope to get my (digital) hands on one of those lovely wolf rings 🙂
I’m in a place right now wherein I can really fly off the handle every single day if I let myself. It’s taking some discipline to keep to specific series as I work…but it’s helping me keep order and use materials in a smart way. 🙂 So happy you’ll be swinging by at noon!
X
this joy, this playful romp through nature, color, and design– it becomes you! play is the taproot of creativity, methinks. I look forward to seeing the new series taking shape on your bench. and I hope you’re getting snow like we are which is now arriving in waves. there’s nothing quite like brilliant sunshine on frost crystals in the early morn! xoxo
I WISH we were getting that snow! Blue skies and sunshine here today. Again. 🙂 But at least the temperature has dropped down a bit again. 60F in February is ridiculous.
X
Bonjour mon petite BlueBelle, how pretty you look!!! Your silver & stone wolf collection is howling! I admire your cool, creative design choices, to see the 3 layers of metal melded together as if they were lace! These are such beautiful, powerful spirit animal totems! XO
Bonjour! Bonjour!!!
So happy you love these wolves, N. Love seeing you here today.
X
Beautiful pieces! I love the negative-space wolf look.
Thank you!
“a velociraptor with seventeen arms and firecrackers in its ears”!! That may be the best expression and visual I’ve ever heard!! Haha!
I have been desperately following updates and waiting ever so patiently to snag a piece of your work. I am a February baby, a Pisces, born with the heart of a wild wolf. The amethyst and animal form are speaking to me and making me feel excited and on pins and needles. I am so hoping I might be fast enough to snag one ring! Beautiful pictures~
Did you get one today?
I’ll have to go look at my sold section and start the crazy work of packing and shipping. 🙂 I hope you scooped up something perfect for yourself.
Love having you here.
X
Sadly, no. It’s tricky when I’m at work to get on in time…
I’m not worried though, I know eventually I’ll get the piece that was meant for me. I actually just wanted to tell you I felt so much joy for you! What an amazing feeling it must be to have your entire Etsy upload sold out in 15 mins!! Your art is magnetizing to so many-you are so gifted!!
I’ve been feeling very much like a a velociraptor with seventeen arms and firecrackers in its ears – I just didn’t know how to word it so wonderfully! So glad you’re working steady now, you keep knocking my socks right off, my toes are frozen! 🙂
Keep it up, lovely love.
xo
Cat
Steady as, baby. I feel complete again!
XX
This is such a cheerful post. It doesn’t read like February at all and I enjoyed the escape:) I am an avid knitter and feel that I must make that sweater! Do you knit?
Patagonia made that sweater…it’s about six years old now and I can hardly believe how well it’s held up with time and hardcore use. It’s one of my winter staples. A great piece. I do not knit. I crochet (and poorly, at that). 🙂
The pink feathers!!!! that necklace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the photographs…everything…as usual and even better.