I am out of photos right now (although I have a pile of things waiting) so today I will direct you somewhere else. The Art Bead Scene. Hey look! There’s a post from me today!
Today is the last day to enter the montly challenge for May which theme is Ophelia’s Garden. This month’s prizes are donated by the artists at firedclayartists.com. Check out the current entries, maybe upload an entry to flickr and boo0kmark the page to keep up on upcoming challenges. Rumor has it that I will be contributing to the prizes next month.
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Ahhhhh. It’s good to be back in the saddle. It’s good to see juicy beads in my blog posts. It’s good to feel the words coming out my fingers. It’s good to have writing projects lined up and it’s good to have shows to start inventory for.
After having done my first full show year I am going to have to plan a little differently for the next year. I knew that these past few months were to focus on writing and advertising but I didn’t have anything lined up to write. Now that I do, it’s time to start thinking inventory. Yikes. It’s gonna be one jam-packed fall and winter. But that’s good, right?
I think it’s interesting to watch the cycles of a self-employed person. I used to watch it in my husband’s business and now I watch it in my own. There are times when you can’t keep up with all of the sales and orders and then the seasons change and you’re in a rebuilding phase again and focusing on drumming up business. Then it hits again. Learning to ride that ebb and flow is an intuitive art in itself. Learning how to maximize ‘down time’ if you want to call it that and learning how to stay balanced and focused in crunch time. I think that’s a whole post in itself, yes?
I am particularly in love with these sliders although I have no idea what one would do with them. Do you? I so wish that in the middle of the night the jewelry making fairy would come sprinkle a little of its dust over me and I would wake up magically transformed into an amazing jewelry designer.
It blows my mind how I can work and achieve new, cool bead designs but still have no idea what to do with them.
Show after show I watch people’s eyes light up as they pick up a bead and start to talk about how they envision the bead. I watch them design pieces in their head right there in front of me and I am amazed.
While I love being a unique, creative bead maker, that jewelry making grass sure is looking greener to me. I once felt that way about bright colors and look at me now. I now know that that greener grass can be achieved by work. It’s not always just natural ability. Ah, if I just had a few more days in the week.
How about you? Where is your grass greener? What would you love to be good at but don’t think you are?
