The internet has forever changed the way we communicate, at least until our technological civilization collapses (have you seen Kevin Costner's old movie, The Postman?). I've come to love reading about and seeing what other creative people are doing, using this fascinating technology; I want to share my creative journey, too. Honestly, maybe I just want to admire my own work on the computer screen. Whatever.
Yes, this is a case of teaching an old dog new tricks. I'm basically a Luddite. (No annoying cell phone for this chick. We don't have a DVD player [yet]. Why anyone over the age of 24 would even want an iPod is beyond me. I watch movies at the movie theater.) So it's going to be slow going at first. But I do have my new digital camera. And the blog book at my side. I love to write. And I'm a very visually-oriented person. If nothing else, this will be a journal for me -- to chart my progress, to motivate me to keep going and do more. This blog will also be a tool for all those people who want to see what I'm doing (both of them). Let the show begin.
The sky is totally cloud-covered this morning. Drizzle and rain off and on. It NEVER rains here in April! Except this year. The weird rainy weather is driving our county's vegetable-producers nutz. By now we should be having lengthening warm sunny days to have the veggies growing like mad. No such luck. I have 2 creative goals for the day: to start this blog, and to finish a chocolate-colored bendi doll who is becoming the Christmas Gingerbread Cookie Fairy.
One more thing. The name of my blog. People always ask me, "What do you do?" Like I'm supposed to have a regular job. Which I don't have. Hardly anyone who isn't one knows what a "fiber artist" is. I'm not even sure I am one. So I just answer, "I make stuff." If you make stuff, you understand that it's all a seamless whole with what you do to make your life. So this is me: Making Stuff, Making a Life.
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