creativity

I had good inten­tions for this five-day week­end, I truly did. Like so many of my good inten­tions, they didn’t get com­pletely ful­filled. I was going to:

• catch up on the mas­sive grad­ing back­log. Well, I at least sorted out the papers and graded a lit­tle bit. A very lit­tle bit.
• get a bunch of items listed at Art­Fire and 1000 Mar­kets for hol­i­day shop­ping. I did get some pho­tos taken and cropped/resized, so I can at least get some bracelets up this week, I hope.
• do some more cold-connected jew­elry pieces. Nada. I did do another chain­maille bracelet, but that’s it.
• try out the Pris­ma­color pencils-on-copper tech­nique. Nope, though I did at least get a bot­tle of gray gesso & some Kry­lon spray Sat­ur­day, plus found a cou­ple of sheets of phos­phor bronze mixed in among the cop­per at Dick Blick.
• tidy up my stu­dio. Let’s not even go there.
• catch up on some read­ing. I barely man­aged to read the news­pa­per a cou­ple of those days.
• Sleep. Now, that’s the one true suc­cess this week­end. Most nights I did get plenty of sleep, which I badly needed.

On the plus side, I did a good deed by fill­ing in for the Thurs­day evening meds per­son at Good Mews (and get­ting thor­oughly carved up by Sil­ver and Mickel in the process). I spent time with my entire fam­ily on Thanks­giv­ing day (get­ting rather over­whelmed in the process), and some time today with part of it when we went over to wish my mom a Happy Birthday.