100 Days of Resolution

100 Days of Resolution

March, 2023

I haven’t been on Instagram for that long, and I do my best to keep my feed art and art-only, so it was inevitable that I would come across the 100 Day Project, which starts every year for the past several in mid to late March.  It’s kind of an intention project, but with few rules.  My intention this calendar year anyway was to engage in resolution – either finish things up to decide to be finished with them.

So, my 2023 100 Day Project will be to use a bunch of my leftover fabric scraps – the stuff that is 5×5 or less – couple it with a bunch of seed beads leftover from who knows what – and to make these little sachets stuffed with cedar.  Or are they pincushions?  In any case, they smell good and they serve my intention.  So that’s part one.  Part two will begin when I run out of steam doing this handwork (which will happen long before I run out of scraps or beads).

Part Two will involve going back to my stack of disassembled chipboard boxes – they were salvaged from the boxes that holiday cards came in that I send out to a business and personal list.  They are sturdy, and have magnetic closures, so of course I couldn’t throw them away.  I’ve been rebuilding and recovering them for a while now, and I think they make the perfect presentation container for some of these beaded beauties!

The Artist’s Way – Once More with Feeling

The Artist’s Way – Once More with Feeling

March, 2022

One of the new things I started in February, mid-February to be exact, is working with an on-line community through the 12 week Artist Way program.  This one is organized by Meredith Hite-Estevez who works under the Lumina Arts Foundation brand and has a podcast called Artists for Joy.

I’ve read the book before and maybe mentally played with the exercises, but never really committed to using it as a workbook and taking it seriously, week by week, for twelve weeks.  We will see how it goes, but it is nice to have a weekly check in with a community and as someone with life coach training, Meredith seems to  have a pretty good handle on how to faciitate.  Morning pages are somehting I theoretically admire but wonder if I will keep up, and breakout rooms on line are always hit or miss, but my first one was a hit, so I will “keep coming back”, or at least that’s how it feels like now.