IT'S A SCRAMBLE

Remember in my earlier post when I said we were getting out there and catching the rest up as quickly as we could after?  Well, I am in that “scramble mode”.  This week I am focused on getting more glass items completed, working on a new business card, and updating my website.  The wonderful part of this is that each of these is a creative undertaking.  The downside is that working on these is WAY more fun than all those ‘other things’ I need to be doing this week.  

I am making small steps forward, even with much of last week focused on getting my taxes to our poor tax accountant.  Connecting Creatively now has a Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ConnectingCreatively, which will hopefully be a wonderful interactive tool to share creative insight and projects.  I would love to see what you are working on, so please feel free to ‘like’ the page and post your projects!  I am working through the logo design for Connecting Creatively and I am very close on finalizing it.  Hopefully you will see it next week.

I made the decision this week to keep 2dogs glass for my glass pieces as well as jewelry and mixed media books.  I struggled with the word glass, but this identity was started a few years ago when I started selling work at Glass HouseDesigns.  I considered 2dogsart and 2dogs, which would be OK deviations, but the domains were not available.  I always check domain availability BEFORE I select a name for something.  It will be fun to look for creative ways to add that special piece of glass to each project.  Jewelry is easy with beads, but mixed media books could be quite interesting and fun!

The business card design is underway.  My goal is to complete the design this weekend.  There is still time this week to complete a few of these tasks before the weekend is over…. Always think positive!

Yesterday was a good day.  I spent over 4 hours in my glass studio creating 2 more wind chimes, this time for Glass House Designs, followed by a few hours working up a napkin collage project for a class in May.  A few weeks ago Jane and I headed to Columbus, OH for a scrapbooking expo.  While there, I took a class from Joe Rotella for napkin collage.  He was a wonderful instructor and it was quite an inspiring class.  There are so many substrates I will be using this art form on.  I am sure this adorable little bird will inspire others towards this new little addiction of mine (I will never look at napkins the same way again!).  It is always fun to have others addicted with you.  Looking forward to my first official art class, as the instructor.

Looks like tomorrow will be another glass day.  Yea!.  Unfortunately, one of my wind chimes did not make the cut today when I opened the kiln.  That is one of the challenges with fused glass; it takes a day before you can see your work and today was that day.  If I want to complete 3 wind chimes this weekend for my favorite art gallery, I need to keep up the pace.  Glass, glass, glass… tomorrow will be another good day!