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June 02, 2008
On My Own Time
Which means that roughly two-thirds of any given project may or may not get done in a day. Because I'm taking my own sweet time getting things done.
I like being responsible to more or less nobody else. It's refreshing.
It's not that things aren't getting done, it's just that they're getting done slooowly. Because I'm not in any great hurry, really. And I'm taking the time to do things like test sheets so that I have a decent idea of what will happen (or ought to happen) before I get started on the next phase of a project. So today I colored a page from an old book with watercolors, water soluble oil pastels and colored pencils, to see which I preferred for when I get around to coloring other pages from the same book. (Not sure what I'll do with them yet, just know I want to color the pictures.)
And I mixed the awesome glass bead medium I've been craving (and finally bought yesterday because it was 25% off) with paint, applying it over & under to see what happens. I also applied it to an old Christmas card and was astounded at how very very cool it looks over an image. Very, very cool. I will certainly and somehow be taking advantage of that.
I also wrote for about ninety minutes and ran some errands and chatted with my teaching partner and hit the gym and read a magazine...
Laundry happened as well, and cat attention and some actual work on my next piece, a suitcase that holds my greeting cards, the blank ones I send to people. So lots of stuff happened. It's just that it happened on my timetable and nobody else's. I'm learning to breathe again, and I love it. I had forgotten what time tasted like and felt like, and the fact that I seem to be able to do this stuff more or less guilt-free is pretty much icing on the cake.
I am really enjoying this summer. I haven't felt this free in a very, very long time.
If ever.
Posted by sally at June 2, 2008 10:33 PM
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