Can’t believe it’s the end of my first “free” week. I’ve done so much, despite being exhausted. No cramps so I think Juniper is staying put for a while.
I got to the pool twice this week. Feels good to be in the water. I somehow stretched out my left ankle, it hurts quite a bit, so walking has been kept to a minimum until it calms down. And my right hip still threatens to expel my right leg at any given moment. My ligaments are really stretched out and sometimes it feels like my leg is going to fall right out of the socket. Walking around in the pool should help strengthen my muscles and help with the ligament pain… or so I hope. It was a good thing I finished up with work because I’m experiencing whole new levels of exhaustion… where I suddenly need to go to sleep for 2 hours, and after I wake up, it takes me a good hour to recover. They are the craziest, super heavy naps. I feel like I’m magnetized to the bed.
This week I framed and matted 11 drawings/prints, hung art, painted shelves, washed sheets and towels getting ready for baby, got some fabric, went to an awesome Portland Modern Quilt Guild Meeting, bought an origami book for Juniper’s mobile, swam twice, did some weeding, picked raspberries, and ate about 500 times (so tired of feeding myself). It’s been a nice week for getting caught up with the to do list. My drawings are staring at me, but I think today I will work on origami and sew some diaper covers. And I want to finally finish our honeymoon quilt. I’m procrastinating on those drawings. There’s just all these things I want to get done and I know once I start on the drawings, they’ll suck me in.
It feels good to be free, but I still don’t believe I’m actually done being a web developer. It’s a little scary, not knowing what exactly I’ll be doing for income, but I’ve got time to figure it out. There’s a lot of great inspiration out there. I swing from feeling like anything is possible, to feeling like it won’t work out. I don’t know where the negative feelings come from, maybe a disbelief that I could actually make a living out of art. I’m totally open and ready for hard work, I don’t see why I have feelings of doubt, but they are there. Better to acknowledge them and dispel them. If I pretend they aren’t there, they might just creep in and make a mess of my life.
So here I go on my new adventure. Here’s the start of a new quilt:
Here’s the great used origami book I found at Powell’s:
And here’s the upholstery fabric I got to cover the organ bench:
Here are Angela’s drawings finally in frames:
Some Tiny Showcase prints added to my studio wall:
Imin Yeh’s print:
Don’t know why the matte turned out so yellow in the photo, it’s just a warm antique white.
An amazing moth in our raspberry bushes:
