New month! New time (2 a.m. tonight, clocks go back.) Fresh start!
What would I like to focus on this month?
1. Most important of all:
Replace energy I spend on my job with more fruitful expenditures.
I work 20 hours/week at the thrift store. Not even a full day/night cycle. I love the work, I love the place. Every time I've tried to expand there, I've run into the management's roadblocks.
I've pulled way back, which is great,
but I can still get emotionally hooked by the dysfunction there--(yesterday's staff meeting was a doozy).
It is not my life.
What's called for now is more SUBSTITUTION.
Get on with other things in my life.
Like....
2. TOY Creations
Getting back to Toys Recreate Paintings* has been great! More of that. Maybe other things.
I'd like to share the photos further, maybe... How? I don't want to go back to Meta social media. Maybe look into alternatives...
That's not the most important thing.
DOING them is.
Also, I have a Bear Repair for someone else I have forgotten about!
And more for myself, too...
I've thought it'd be fun to teach a one-night Basic Stuffed Animal Repair/refresh class in community ed... Maybe this spring?
3. Social connections
a. Today I'm going to a Needle-work group that meets twice a month at a nearby library. I'd been once and liked it but haven't been back. It's open to any craft-work.
I'll take a bag of God's eye–making supplies.
b. This Sunday will be my fourth Church visit. If I feel good about it again, I will ask about meeting with someone (the pastor?) to learn more about the church.
Who are these people?
It's Christian, and it's evident there's no specific creed--the pastor mentioned 1/3rd of the congregation is atheist/agnostic, for instance-- but there is a culture, and expectations.
(Creeds don't have to be written or spoken.)
c. M and Q are coming down for Thanksgiving!
That's great because I'm eager to see them, and also it gives me a goal...
3. Rearrange my apartment/Art-making set-ups...
This involves some decision making:
Am I going to do more printmaking?
In theory, yes! But I've done none in a year and the supplies are taking up a table.
IDEA: Design a holiday card to print (like GZ's lovely little robin print card!). If that gets me going, I'll keep the printmaking set up.
Also, I need to look into a cheaper printer if I am going to make a Girlettes 2026 calendar.
Am I?
The printer I've been using for 5 years only gives discounts if you order 10 or more, and I don't think I need 10 this year.
Or do I?
Making artwork challenges me because I am such a nonstarter at selling or disseminating my work--do I want to change that?
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*I'd half-forgotten that last Halloween the girlettes had also recreated a portrait of a Boy--Goya's Red Boy: Portrait of Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga.
What a fun duo (quartet) with the Boy King James!
I was going to fuzt with the Boy King James, but they said, no.
Start something new with us.
Quite right.
