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So today I was playing a bit with sketching TV’s. I like to change tv’s and monitors in to different things in my art. So after making this sketch.. I thought wouldn’t it be fun to add this to the top of my Etsy page. Only I wanted it animated… so I go through all the trouble in Flash, convert it to an animated gif.. upload it. And wouldn’t you know Etsy stripped my animation right out! ughh (ok probably smart on their part, but a little note would have saved me the trouble… low and behold the same with my blogger account. So I’m going to attach it here, so at least someone can see it

Ok, I ummm well sort of fell off the wagon as it were. sigh. High hopes, high expectations, and a little dose of reality. So the way my life goes, I guess I’m not even conciouse at the end of the day Wed & Thursdays, and then trying to recover Friday. I had hoped I could over come that hurdle, but apparently not. (Not that I don’t make on those days, I am very busy trying to teach other people how to make, make flash games, make websites… but I was trying to get away from the computer making I do). So the perfectionist in me got so upset that I couldn’t do it “right”… I gave up a bit. But, uhmmm, well I’m back! So there. And I’m going to keep on playing even if it isn’t perfect . And I’m even going to keep having fun!

Needed to think about shifting gears, changing perspective, taking care of me & the people I love first & foremost

Hmmm not sure how I feel about this one… don’t feel like my brain was actually feeling like I should play… just had the list of things to do going in the background… and unfortunately this became one of those Will try and reclaim my time, energy & play tomorrow.

OK, Today we booked plane tickets for the family summer vacation. And I’m already anxious. So this one’s about my love hate relationship with flying. My mother lives over seas, and has since I was about 8, and my father has always loved to travel… and in many ways has passed that bug on to me. I love meeting new people & exploring new places. I guess I like the being there part & HATE the getting there! Seems like it’s gotten worse as I’ve gotten older?

So I found the glasses for this one in a parking deck one day, seemed to speak to me of flying the minute I saw them… and my boyfriends boys keep asking me why I save them now we know. All of the imagery & text comes from an in flight magazine !

Collage number one… The ALL Seeing EYE…This one started with the bottle cap & the glass bead… seemed like an eye to me. And then I started playing. It’s made of colored pencils, candy wrappers, paint, string, sparkly stuff. I thought it was fun to do… Hard part is stopping I’m trying to think inside the box for a change. I have a habit of turning all kinds of things in to art projects, I thought it might be fun to challenge myself & try and stick to a square format. I hope they don’t get boring.

Ok, what’s this organizing stuff?  Nope, won’t do it… ain’t going to happen. I am firmly resolving to have my thing a day be spontaneous, silly unexpected & fun.  And you all should not tempt me, with this being organized stuff!

Yikes!! what if i run out of ideas? what if i don’t have all the pieces i need? What if i don’t have computer access one day?

See, you are tempting the perfectionist already… Nope i say, i won’t do it!!

The list of things to do in my mind is on going… I’m hoping this will remind me to play, be silly & maybe loosen up a bit everyday. We’ll be going for the NON-perfectionist approach, and see how long I can actually last… with out suddenly needing to make it a “perfect” project, and take up way to much time… or fall out from under me. Sigh.. fingers crossed. The goal is to do a bit of mixed media collage every day. (Figure that’ll leave it nice & open to interpretation) see everyone there!!