Don't fall over
Hopefully you're sitting down otherwise you'll fall over from the shock of seeing a blog entry from me. It's been ages and oodles since I posted anything. There is a couple reasons for all of that. I think at the end of December I was just kind of feeling numb. We had a good friend pass away the day after Christmas after we watched her battle with cancer for a couple of years. She put up a good fight but in the end, lost the battle at only 57. Right after that, I was hearing of friends and other family members having cancer and it was really putting me in a slump. Instead of trying to work through it all, I just froze up and did nothing. I was still creating a few things but just kind of making more of what I had already made in the past so I wasn't feeling creative. In addition to that sales were really slow and I don't know if anyone else gets like me but you start to feel like if nobody is buying what you make, why keep making it.
My slump lasted quite a long time, probably 6 months or a little longer seeing as it's now the end of August and tomorrow will be a new month of September. During that time my hard drive also took a dump and I didn't realize it but I hadn't backed up anything on my computer since the end of December. So I lost 6 months of images I had created in addition to my girlfriends wedding photos and I had some of the only pictures of her reception. I had managed to send her some of them but I felt really careless not backing those up.
Sometimes when I'm in a slump like this, it helps if I work in a different medium. I started creating hair clips and broochs. I didn't sell any online but they were being well received in Loveland Boutique in Tempe that my items are in.
So finally after a long stretch of what I'll call a creative incubation period, I've finally come up with something new. I'm just trying to finish them now in a way that do all my hard work some justice. Here is a sampling of what I'm working on. These will be finished in to jewelry and wall art pieces. I think it's going to require me to get my soldering back out as well. As of right now, I've fused the sepia image to the glass and then come in with glass paint and fused that in to give them an old fashioned hand tinted look. Then, I couldn't help myself, I outlined them with more glass paint and here they are so far.
So far I've gotten positive feedback on them and some good ideas on how to finish them which I'm definitely going to be taking a few people up on their ideas. And thank you so much again, for your good ideas and taking the time out to offer suggestions.
So until next time you need to sit down because you got a blog entry from me, for now, I bid you farewell.
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