New Computer finally!!!!

My mind, body, and soul are tired today. Pre-school registration is proving to be far more difficult than I ever imagined. It has me quite stressed and I am feeling under the weather lately. I actually missed yoga Monday night, and I have not done that in six months!
I started working on my daily journal again. I find that it really helps me with the stress. I have had such fun getting back into drawing in my journal. Very relaxing and it totally centers me..almost like meditation.
I really, really hoping that Cooper gets into preschool so I can get back to my art on a more regular basis.
I also want to learn to sew. good to have goals.

Wow, it has been a while since I blogged here. I will add that all Christmas gifts were finished on time and very well received. I will post photos later.
My New Years resolution, well one of many, is to practice drawing. I am not very good at it. I do not have an innate ability to translate what I see with my eyes to a piece of paper.
I am waiting till I get my new laptop to really get back into this. Right now my computer is just so frustrating. Too slow.
I am not sure where I am going to go with my art these days. I would love to earn some money from what I make, but I do not really feel I have a marketable product. I just make random bit of art for myself and people I love. I wish I could sew...really sew...not the faking it stuff I do now. I want to be able to make clothes, or bags that way I could get really creative with it. I always have this idea of how I want to dress...I would like crazy arty clothes..but I am not sure I have the confidence or attitude to pull it off. Especially here in Jersey...not exactly an artsy area. They are all so crabby too. What's up with that? I already don't fit in, not sure how much more I want to push the envelope.
I want pink hair, and tattoos. I want crazy clothes. I want to make art all day. I want to be around other artists, people who believe in being creative in everything they do. I want people who get my sense of humour, all of my humour...not just some of it.
A girl has got to have dreams!

http://wherewomencreate.typepad.com
They also publish a magazine/book that I can just take with me everywhere and study picture for picture...word for word.

I love this website!!!
http://wherewomencreate.typepad.com
I love to see where other people create. My ultimate dream is to have my own studio, especially a room in my own house that I can completely take over and make mine.

Bollocks!!!
I just finished typing a rather long post, when I accidentally hit the back button and lost all my work. arrgh.
I was discussing the celebratory dance I performed when I finished a task that had been on my to do list for months. It involved ironing, and dragging out the sewing machine which earned a huge pat on my back.
I managed to get some work done on the Christmas presents this morning. Whew. I cannot tell if they will be charmingly handmade in appearance or craptasticley handmade...there is a fine line and I am not sure if I have crossed it. Fingers crossed.

Artist block over? maybe.
This year..due to financial constraints, there are going to be a whole lot of homemade gifts for Christmas!
I will post the pictures after Christmas, since I don't want to show everyone what they are getting before hand.