Thank goodness!
I finally had an uninterrupted day out in the studio!
Actually, I must be frank, my work day was rough — it was downright crummy to begin with. Due to our wonderful weeks of house guests here, it’s been some time since I’ve had a solid mitful of consecutive days to sit down and pour myself into my work for hours on end. It is my opinion that creative work is habitual. This said, for every day I spend away from creative work, it takes me about three days to get back into the swing of things. For this reason, I like to do something creative, no matter how great or small, every single day.
When I sat down in the studio this morning I was filled with a smorgasbord of horrendous emotions. They ran the gamut from annoyance to miniature-rage to self pity.
I tried to work. I tried to delve right in to metal and stone but my medium wasn’t having any of it. Finally, I stormed inside, whipped up a pot of Seasons of Discontent, carried my tea out into the studio, poured a cup, and wrote pages and pages in my journal.
I wrote about everything.
I wrote about nothing.
I wrote to give my insecurities and my victories voices — to identify them and move past them.
I wrote to clear my head, to make room for thinking.
And it worked.
The rest of my studio time looked like this:
This ring is for a dear, dear friend of mine. It’s actually her wedding ring….or perhaps it might be more apt to call it her wedding wren.
Anyway, I had been stalling for months on the creation of this ring for her. When I woke up this morning, I knew it was the day for this ring, despite the storm clouds that had my soul all socked in.
I must have settled on the details of the concept during R.E.M. state because when I opened my eyes to daylight this morning, I knew I wanted to make this piece around the sweet notions of:
Something old,
something new,
something borrowed,
something blue.
I just fired her the images of her ring.
I hope she loves it.
She’s a real New Mexican/Idahoan princess of old soul and twinkly eyes…it’s for this reason I know she can handle the size of this ring!
I wanted to show it to you because it represents the love of one for another,
and it also represents my victory over what might have been a really grey day.
Here’s to pouring our minds out on paper,
to the slick slide of black ink over delicately toothed journal pages,
to the tea that warms our cores,
to the moments when we get to see straight.
I hope you had a wonderful Monday,
xx
Jillian Sue