Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Quote Journal


Ok.
I couldn't stand it. I had to make a journal that I could put quotes in. Above is the cover.
The words on the outside are "word garden". I just love that. So many possibilities.
It is really limiting to sit and read and not have some place to write down the things that stand out as significant. I can't do it. I have to stop reading and look for paper. Finding something to write with, in my house, without going to my art room, is impossible. This journal makes it easier for my obsessive compulsion to write those things down, and, where my working journal is 9x12, this one is half that size and much easier to carry around with me. I feel relief. I can quote the Wicked Witch. That's important to me. So...now I have a journal for art and a journal for words. Hmm. Can I stop there?
Working. Working. Working. I have six weeks before school starts up. Isn't strange how everything gets done faster in your head than it does in life? Before I get back to the students this is what I want to do:
  1. finish/send bird collage cards to atc swap
  2. finish piece for art guild show
  3. final touches on renovated bathroom (long story - I'll post before and afters for that)
  4. Open Etsy store
  5. Marketing plan for DLP fine art
  6. finish organizing art room
  7. finish cleaning out closet
  8. redo son's room
  9. outline lesson plans for incoming students
In the meantime, work in journal daily, read my book list, and play with son as much as possible.
Not much to do there. No sir.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

SUMMER!


Yay! Summer is here and I am off of school until the end of August.

I will not be teaching at Art Camp this summer, because they wanted me to teach photography and that is my hubby's area, not mine. That so made me laugh. It's very nice that they have such confidence in me, but all I could teach the kids would be to take off the lens cap. And the business side of photography - which would bore the five-year-olds to tears. Hehe. "And this class, is a model release." Ohhhh.
So I will be traveling around Michigan and visiting galleries to sell photography for the summer. Beautiful framed prints of the Michigan freshwater landscape and Images from India. Fun. Fun. Fun. I'm excited about designing a portfolio - digital and traditional.