My plant is growing in a weird way, but it makes me happy. I am kind of proud of it. Like, keep fighting the good fight, little plant! You don’t have to grow up if you don’t want to, you can definitely grow sideways and around! It’s what I do!
It has been a busy few days. On Thursday, I went downtown to pick up some hair dye, a sketchbook, and decided to wander into Dressew. While I was downstairs paying for something, someone tapped my arm. It turned out to be Val.
This was both good and bad because Val and I together = let’s buy the most ridiculous things we can find. And thus I present to you my new fabric:
After a while, I came home and grumped for a bit before going to the Handmade Nation premiere.
First, let’s talk gift bags. I was one of the first 100 tickets, so I got a bag of stuff. Awesome. The highlights:
I was super excited when I found this in my bag because I have been coveting several moss terrariums on etsy. This guy came from Thyrza Segal .
Of course Maine had to upstage me by pulling this out of his bag:
Sorry, Russian doll + lavender = heaven. Maine says he is going to use it as mind control to calm me down when we go out and I have a freak out.
It was a good night. The movie was awesome and my only complaint was that some parts felt a bit rushed but at the same time there was so much squished into it that I think it was unavoidable.
Here’s a little snip of it:
While we were watching it, I suddenly had this feeling of like… “Here are my people”. And then I got really sad because one lady was talking about how she had always been creative growing up and that this was about people figuring out how to be creative as an adult, and I guess I was sad because I feel like I have had the creativity squashed out of me ever since grade 8 or so.
I come from a very small town, so we didn’t really have arts funding to begin with. Art wasn’t offered past grade 8, and I remember the last class I was in was taught by some volunteers from the senior citizen art club.
There was so much pressure to “be something” when I grew up that I ended up doing lots of science and math and all the proper courses, and I feel like I lost out on a lot of time because I was always told that art wasn’t a viable career path.
Even when I went for the information session for the Textile Arts program, I sort of shrugged it off when I talked to my mom about it, like “Oh I’m not very serious, just going to check it out.” I know her concern comes from a good place, but it just makes me sad that we live in a world where a lot of time being creative isn’t really encouraged.
At the same time, though, at least I am figuring it out now and giving myself the opportunity. I might epic fail, but at least I will have tried, and I can always go back to being an office drone later if I need to.
On the plus side, my embroidery skills are already improving quite a bit.
Hello, everyone. I have been MIA a little bit lately, however, I have this to share. My new craft corner is almost complete. I just have to organize and tidy and find some neat things to display. I feel pretty good about this.
I am working on a thing that I will probably post later on, and also tomorrow is Handmade Nation! They moved it to the Rio which is freakin’ awesome cause it’s across the street from where we live, awww yeah! It means I don’t have to take transit to get there. Victory!
