As I type I have an old mask I made with a really nice beaded headpiece soaking in rubbing alcohol trying to get the headpiece off for a new piece I’m working on.  I think it won’t work but I’m trying anyways because to not try would assure that it won’t and I’m not quite ready to concede yet that what I want here is totally impossible.

Finished three small torsos today that were ready to be finished weeks ago then life and hurricane came along and here we are today instead of weeks ago.  It wouldn’t matter except one of them is already a promised commission and I feel bad that I have made her wait so long!

My plan for today for Art Every Day Month was to show pictures of my new stands:  one for a piece that has been long made and tied to a tree to hold her up, and one for a show I was invited to participate in by a local Gallery for February 2013.  But my welder didn’t get it welded (he’s Amish, so is not aphone call away but a hike down the road a good ways.  We had agreed this week, but we have now agreed for next week.  Here’s hoping!) So instead I’ll share my sketch of what’s going on the stand once I get it here, and yes, I can go ahead and create the piece prior to the stand but am mightily procrastinating for some reason and will just have to honor my putting off as a way my subconscious is telling me there’s more deciding that needs to be done before I start.  Or perhaps it’s just that I”ll need a thorough cleaning of the

surfaces in my studio and a good bit of the stuff that’s there now will be used up for my Forever Flowers class Friday night of the upcoming retreat in Westmoreland Beach State Park, Va. That will make everything much easier!

I think some of the procrastination is that I am switching focus in my business, moving toward more classes and workshops and away from shows and what I consider “production” type pieces.  The larger pieces are for sale but they really are for an altogether different market than I have been focused on recently.  I’m very much enjoying the classes I am teaching and like the relaxed pace of bigger pieces compared to lots of small pieces.

And I still have a Christmas show to make those angels for.  So it’s back and forth and up and down and what else is new if you’re a solopreneur?!  I have to say I’ve never been happier than I am moving in the direction that I have finally been able to integrate and articulate!

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