Thursday, October 23, 2014

Confessions of a crafty wannabe

Confession #1 - I haven't made anything creative in three weeks, okay maybe it's more like four. A month! This is unacceptable. Just haven't been in the mood. Just haven't made time. Just haven't had the free time that coincided with being in the mood. It was the end of the 1st quarter of school; I went on vacation; I had to recover from vacation and get back in the swing of things at school. Yadda. Yadda. Yadda. I'm currently a crafty failure. This teacher face accurately demonstrates how I feel about my lack of craftiness. Lol!


Confession #2 - Rather than scrapbook or sew or craft, I've been reading voraciously and working on writing a novel. (More to come soon about the novel thing...) I've kept up with blogging. I've worked and seen my friends/family and taken naps and watched tv and paid bills and cleaned house. I've been productive, then, but not in a craftily relevant way. Is craftily relevant even a real phrase? Oh well, it is now.

Confession #3 - I've talked about crafting. In my head, I've planned a dozen projects - at least - that haven't come to fruition. I've podcasted about scrapbooking. I've thought about getting creative. I even sat at my desk one night last week  and looked through my fall supplies and pics in preparation of making a layout. But I didn't make anything. I was exhausted after looking through my stuff and just gave up. Plus, I found a pic of my mom at my exact age and it sort of put a damper on the whole crafty plan, considering my mortality and everything, ya know.

See collection of fall supplies I'd like to use here:






See podcasting photos here:



Confession #4 - Craftiness is on my calendar. After podcasting on Sunday, I was super motivated to make stuff. This always happens. Unfortunately, I had other plans Sunday night and then was too tired on Monday night and had night class on Tuesday night and other plans on Wednesday night...do you see a theme here? My plan is to spend some time Sunday morning, Monday evening, and Friday evening crafting. I really need to get a handle on fitting crafting into my life because I miss it.

Confession #5 - There are so many projects I want to make that I feel a little bit paralyzed. (Kind of ironic considering the topic of next week's podcast; be sure to tune in!)

The takeaway? I guess I just need to do more and stress less, craft more and plan less, enjoy more and avoid less. Crafting makes me happy, so I need to make it happen!

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  1. Oh wow, I wrote a very witty comment and then had to sign into Google and it *poof* disappeared! Argggh.

    Okay here goes again.

    1) That first pic of you made me laugh out loud when it came on my screen because that is the real you that looks at me.

    2) Aaaccck! I've rubbed off you with my non-crafty ways!

    3) I think your problem is that you overschedule your life! I do too. I'm moving heaven and earth to stay home Saturday and make A FREAKING SCRAPBOOK PAGE ALREADY!

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    1. You're right, you're right - it's all your fault! Hahaha! That pic is hilarious, I think. It captures my most shared expression. Am I right? Yeah, I know I am. And yes, I've been overscheduling myself lately, but I'm working on doing better about that this weekend actually.

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  2. First of all I LOVE your podcast! (I also would like to apologize for my horrific grammar and rambling).

    I have felt the same way about crafting lately. I have been doing a major purge of all of my supplies. If I don't love it I am getting rid of it. It is amazing the amount of stuff that I have accumulated. I will say that just having less choices has made me feel more excited to craft. Sometimes I think that we get so caught up in the newest, prettiest must have product that we forget why we started in the first place. I know for me I wanted a hobby that would allow me to capture all of the amazing things going on in my life, but I wanted to be creative and have fun doing it.

    I have decided that I don't care about design principles, what colors or products are "in". I am going to do my thing (whatever that is) and to heck with what anyone else thinks!

    Hope you can find your fun and forget all of rules and plans!! Can't wait for the next podcast!!!

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    1. I'm so glad you've enjoyed listening, Erin. I agree that my stuff sometimes gets in my way. I haven't been buying much new lately, so at least that doesn't seem to be my current hurdle. I'm excited to have some time to create this weekend, so wish me luck. Keep listening - we've got some great shows coming up to share with you!

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  3. Don't worry about it, if you have to force it you will not love the results, when you are ready it will flow freely from you. Love the podcast by the way

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    1. Glad you're having fun listening! And you're soo right about trying to force it. Just have such great plans floating around in my head; now I need to follow through with some more of them.

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  4. same here, no mojo, no output. Lots of shopping because there's lots of lovely new things in the shop but, no mojo, no output. I saw a pintrest quote, "my brain has too many tabs open" and its so true. One day, poof, the mojo will return, the "collecting' will stop (ok, slow down), and I'll be off. I will. Its happened before. I'm sure you will too. Love the podcast and your blog, thanks, look forward to the next one and return of the mojo.

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    1. Glad to know I'm not alone! You're right, it is cyclical. My mojo will come back; until then, I guess I'll just blog and podcast and look at pretty stuff online. ;) So glad you're enjoying listening; it makes my day when I hear that someone likes what we're talking about, ya know?

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  5. You are hilarious! I have the same issues most of the time! I am most frustrated with no time/lots of mojo or no mojo/lots of time.

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    1. I'm glad you feel my pain, girl. But I don't wish you the 'no mojo' prob. Maybe that's how I'll make my millions - figure out how to reel that mojo back in for all of us frustrated scrappers! :)

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