A New Year - A First Post

It's January 3rd, 2013.  I've been nursing a cold since Sunday.  Only maybe it's the flu.  Low grade fever, racking cough, runny nose.  It's just lovely being me this week.  True to my normal way of dealing with being sick, I've tried to sleep my way through it.  Done a good job of it too, 18+ hours per day of sleeping.  Think it's working though, at least I'm feeling slightly better this morning and my head isn't pounding as much as it has.

So, this is my first post on this blog.  I've tried starting one before and didn't follow through.  I've never been a journaler or diary keeper.  Oh, I will start with the greatest of good intentions but I lack follow through.  Perhaps it's my Gemini brain, I keep flitting from idea to idea.

  

Anyhow, I'm giving it the proverbial "old college try" again and will see where this goes.  I'd like to post photos of art projects I work/play on in my collaborative art group, UGRA (Underground Railroad Artists).  I've photos locked in my computer.  If I add them here, at least they'll be more accessible.  I really don't have a plan, will just fool around with this and see where it goes, and hope I can develop some follow through in 2013.

The above photo is a pale shot of some felted cuffs and little matchbook paper tablets I made.  I stole the idea for the tablets from Janet Chance, an UGRAette.  I colored card stock and cut copy paper to fit, stapling it inside.  On the outside of them I wrote "Notes to Self".  Gave a bunch of them away at Christmas.

The felted cuff idea was stolen from Cloth, Paper, Scissors.  I've made and given away quite a few of them.  People have told me I could sell either of these items.  My problem is figuring out how to feel comfortable marketing my stuff, not to mention coming up with an appropriate price.  The other, perhaps bigger problem, is that old Gemini brain.  I've made 'em, I'm bored, move onto something new.

Maybe that's my resolution for 2013 - to take advantage of Lindsay Ostrom's (another UGRAette) 52 week challenge this year.  Pick one thing and do it each week.  If I do that, I may see progress and improvement in my artfuller life.