I just signed up for another e-course.... hmm, is this going to become a habit?





I'm so excited I'll be joining Marisa of Creative Thursday for her second running of her "In The Fishbowl" class! It's all about navigating the waters of being an artist online. I think I'm jumping the gun here yet again, as I'm still struggling to make time for making art, and nowhere near having a career with this yet, but the opportunity is too good to pass up. And the other class I'm taking now - A Course in Trust, which I'm still not too sure about actually, but then again that is probably my "trust issue" speaking - this week's class talked about trusting yourself and your instincts. Thinking about the In The Fishbowl class makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and energized, and that is the very feeling that I'm supposed to be following, no?





Amazingly the class begins late September, which is about the time that I should be fully moved/settled in and studio area outfitted, and more than ready to begin my creative adventures in my new space. A cosmic line-up to be sure!

Moving right along....

Hey there - Yes I know, three weeks have passed and where are those photos I promised to post? Well after spending 3 or 4 days of spare time to delete the photos that didn't turn out so well, and rename them so I'd remember later exactly what was I doing in that shot?, I still haven't uploaded them or emailed them to any family & friends either, so this little bloggy blog here isn't the only one lacking marvelous pictures of my trip!

I actually have my hands full at the moment with apartment hunting and slowly packing, trying to get a handle on my issues at the Day Job (tardies, lack of motivation, etc.), carving out some little (very little) time for my artwork, and I think I just might have to re-do this blog here anyway. I've been thinking that I need to have a landing page for my artwork, not just my thoughts about life & stuff, and I don't want to be here linking about the stylish this or that found on the interwebs like everyone else does (because I love you all and already read your blogs, so why do I need to duplicate what you've already got working so well?) so....

Once I move, and have an actual studio area set up for myself, I plan to set up a separate blog to post more regularly about my daily adventures in exploring my creativity. I'm not going to abandon this page here, but the best thing about this page for me has always been getting my thoughts out of my head and out there somewhere. So that is what I'll be focusing on for Ninja Haiku in the future (and then I won't have to worry about the fact that nobody reads this page LOL).

Until then, maybe the occasional post here and there about my struggles (omg why do a quarter of the apartments ads on craigslist appear to be scams of one sort or another????)... take care!

Summer Vacation

I just got back from a trip to Sedona, AZ... talk about a magical place! It's hard to describe the beauty of nature up there, how amazing the famous Red Rocks are. I'm already missing it! Within half an hour of getting to my accommodations there in the Village of Oak Creek, I knew that I would have to return someday. I can imagine myself living there, that's for sure!

I took many, many pictures, and have much more to tell about the trip.... will post more when I get the chance!

Clearing

The past couple weekends I've been clearing out some of the stuff I have stored in the garage. Isn't it funny how we can go along our days just fine without some things (that we've virtually forgotten we own) but as soon as those things are brought back out into the light of day and headed for the garbage, we can't bear the thought of letting them go?

In the process I found 2 boxes filled with financial paperwork going back as far as 1994! So many of pages had my social security number, contact info, even account numbers that are still active. So I started shredding like crazy. It's been taking forever, my poor little shredder keeps getting overheated, and I'm still not done! Isn't it crazy that we all have to be afraid to throw anything away because identity thieves might find it?

Note to self: sign up for electronic statements for all my accounts. Stop the paper madness!

Weekend pictures

Over the weekend about a dozen irises bloomed on the plant in our backyard... Here are a couple of the shots I got on Sunday of them in all their glory! Too bad these flowers don't last much longer than a day, as they are so pretty. By this evening when I looked again not a shred of the flowers remained aside from one shriveled petal!

Blast off!

One of my recent posts has completely disappeared! How is this even possible - has anyone seen this kind of thing happen before?

Anyway, I had left a little update last week about the class that I'm taking, it's called Blast Off and it's for artists who want to take their career to the next level. So far it's been a lot of envisioning and goal-setting and checking in on where we are right now.

Anyone reading this blog would probably be able to tell, I'm nowhere near where I want to be. Heck, I'm nowhere close to where these other students in the class are! It's entirely possible I'm taking this class prematurely. But, I'm not getting anywhere on my own. I am really hoping that this will help me build a foundation to get on that pathway, to get to my dream life. And if I can stick with it, and use these tools to help me do that, it'll be well worth the investment.

Let's see where this takes me!

New project

This Treasury is on today's front page of Etsy..... It evokes the same kind of feeling I'm hoping to get with a new project I'm working on (just bought the materials yesterday!) It's a fabric piece with embroidery, embellishments, etc., and if it goes well I will make it into a product line, as I already have lots of ideas for other works in the same vein!