Home Alone

I've read a few postings from people about how they are dealing with being confined in there homes with their families. How to keep their kids busy and about how to deal with working for home. 

Not seeing as much on how to spend these days with no one but yourself. (nothing personal Olivia) I know many people live alone, and these days will test our strength. I am lucky that I don’t have to look too hard to find plenty of things to fill my days. At the beginning of “stay at home”  I did go threw a lot of anxiety. It overcame my daily life. As the weeks passed it did become a little easier. I'll admit of being afraid of getting sick. So staying in most of the time is best for me. 

I can't say "My house is cleaner than it's ever been", or I've completed several long term projects. I seem to be just floating threw my days with no firm plans each morning of what I will do. I figure it's ok for now. Etsy sales are very low and I understand that so the need to make more jewelry is gone. Now I just fiddle around and play with it when I want that creative outlet. 

"Is it over?"

watercolor pencil, ink

I have also been drawing a lot. That really takes my mind off everything and keeps me from wandering off into worries that can’t be fixed by thinking about them. Keeping my mind busy is my best direction. 

Craft Droid 

watercolor pencil, ink

 Monster

watercolor pencil, ink

Of course I’ve been watching a lot of tv. I draw while I’m watching some shows, but I can’t get a lot done while watching a really good show I’ve not seen, like the Mandalorian. I’m sure watching this will create even more interesting drawings. Several of the creatures and aliens are on my list to draw already and I’ve just started the series. 

Do what makes you happy and try to stay at peace. 

A New Sculpture and the Sketch Book Project

At Christmas Jack gave me a sculpture he did and I was so pleased. I asked him where did you get the idea for this. He looked at me kinda funny and said it’s one of your drawings. Oh well so much for my memory. This is a special gift I will treasure always of course it was made just for me and from one of my drawings. So special.

This did get me thinking about my stack of sketch books I had laying around. So how to minimize this stack of books into a much smaller collection of my sketches? 

Here are the only hard back books I had. One had almost no drawings

 in it and the other was 3/4 used. So these will be the home

for all the other drawings from the multiple little spiral bound books laying about 

I gathered a few of my mixed media supplies and started 

ripping apart all the spiral bound sketch books.

2 days later

So now every drawing I have done in the last 15 years that I wanted to keep is in those

2 hard back sketchbooks. I used old sheet music and scrapbook papers to cover old drawings I wasn't too fond of. 

Even thou I try to keep my ideas for jewelry or other projects out of my daily sketch book sometimes that isn't handy when I want to sketch something out before the idea runs off into never land. So my sketchbooks end up with a lot of different things in them. They tell a story of what was going on in my life at that time. I try to date everything, but don't always. When I looked back over these drawings it brought back a ton of memories, that had more to do with the time I drew the drawing than the drawing itself.  

Enjoy each day and keep close to your heart what is

really important in your life. 

God, Family and Friends

and a good comfy box