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Well, everyone, I know that I practically never make an appearance on DA. Most often I come on here to clear away any messages and read what my close friends have been up to on here. But the fact is, most of my friends are as inactive on DA as I am.
I rarely have time to do any of my own art, and I'm sure that no one would be interested in seeing my art lessons for elementary students. And to be perfectly honest, I just don't feel much like drawing these days. I am in varying states of exhaustion and stress, and when I finally do have one spare minute when I'm not cleaning, working, doing laundry, writing lessons, yelling at my pets, or keeping my toddler from pulling (and throwing) hundreds of DVDs off of the self, I find myself mindlessly watching trashy tv like "Teen Mom" or "Futurama" OR just flat out going to bed.
I have been really trying to work my way out of this so called "artistic slump" with little success. I haven't had any motivation to sew, and that has been my one constant creative outlet for the past few years. Currently I am fighting with a toddler pj pattern I found online that is complete rubbish - which I should have known -I think I have yet to find a "free" pattern that I have not had to tweak or completely redo before it was actually usable. So now I am trying again after I made it bigger in the bum and taller in the waist....perhaps this person has never had an 18 month old and forgot that most of them need bigger space in the "trunk" because most of them are still wearing diapers? Not to mention my poor child, who wears cloth diapers, which as some of you know make said child's butt 3x larger due to the cloth bulk. ANYWHO. Hopefully my tweaking will pay off and I wont waste any more cute fabric on pjs that wouldn't fit an American Girl doll, let alone an actual human being.
Wow. This whole rambling seems to be mostly gibberish and hardly any sense whatsoever. Hopefully you can understand my squabbling!
I rarely have time to do any of my own art, and I'm sure that no one would be interested in seeing my art lessons for elementary students. And to be perfectly honest, I just don't feel much like drawing these days. I am in varying states of exhaustion and stress, and when I finally do have one spare minute when I'm not cleaning, working, doing laundry, writing lessons, yelling at my pets, or keeping my toddler from pulling (and throwing) hundreds of DVDs off of the self, I find myself mindlessly watching trashy tv like "Teen Mom" or "Futurama" OR just flat out going to bed.
I have been really trying to work my way out of this so called "artistic slump" with little success. I haven't had any motivation to sew, and that has been my one constant creative outlet for the past few years. Currently I am fighting with a toddler pj pattern I found online that is complete rubbish - which I should have known -I think I have yet to find a "free" pattern that I have not had to tweak or completely redo before it was actually usable. So now I am trying again after I made it bigger in the bum and taller in the waist....perhaps this person has never had an 18 month old and forgot that most of them need bigger space in the "trunk" because most of them are still wearing diapers? Not to mention my poor child, who wears cloth diapers, which as some of you know make said child's butt 3x larger due to the cloth bulk. ANYWHO. Hopefully my tweaking will pay off and I wont waste any more cute fabric on pjs that wouldn't fit an American Girl doll, let alone an actual human being.
Wow. This whole rambling seems to be mostly gibberish and hardly any sense whatsoever. Hopefully you can understand my squabbling!
Porn is not Art.
Ugh. I have a bone to pick with you, DA. I seriously got SICK of coming on to DA and the first thing I see when I come on is a picture of someone's genitalia. I finally turned the mature filter on because I just don't want to see it.
I STUDIED ART IN COLLEGE. I have a bachelor's degree in art. I can appreciate the beauty in an artistic nude. I definitely see the beauty in the human body - and feel that can be represented in a tasteful way. But seeing a full frontal picture of you with your dildo the second I log on to DA is repulsive - NOT artistic. Sorry.
Anyone else feel this way or is it just me???
It's been a crazy year!
Well friends, I AM alive, I promise! Things have been really crazy this year. I was busy with work and then the baby came a bit earlier than expected. And then the challenges of being a new mom who knew practically nothing about babies...Then I went back to work and was a working mommy and that was really hard. You can FORGET about doing any of my own art.
Most of my time now is spent taking care of our daughter, who is now nearly 8 months old and just started crawling and is getting into everything. We are doing cloth diapers, so I spend a lot of time washing, drying, stuffing, folding, and putting away diapers. But now that school is out f
Little Bean
Well, this summer has been relatively uneventful. I haven't really done much. Mostly I have just been super lazy. It's been great!!
Got to see sailor-kitty19 (https://www.deviantart.com/sailor-kitty19) and went to the Butterfly Pavilion and the Aquarium. Might plan a trip to Yellowstone before the summer's up if we can afford it.
I've done a little sewing and crafting, but mostly I've been getting the nursery ready for my daughter who will be born at the end of October. We're calling her "Little Bean" because on our first ultrasound she looked like a little kidney bean or a little peanut. ha ha.
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So it has been a lot of moving furniture, putting new furniture t
Nothing to report
I know it's been ages since I updated this journal. Fact is, there is very little that I have to say that is of any relative importance to anyone. I go to work, I come home, I walk my dog...my life is rather uneventful. We're on spring break from work. We're getting ready to leave town tomorrow for a few days, yay! It will be nice to get out of here for a while.
Besides my usual artistic slumps, it seems like I have less and less time that I can devote to being creative. Most of my creative juices are spent on creating fun lesson plans and examples of said lesson plans for my students. And when I'm not doing that I'm sewing for my Etsy shop
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Yeah, I feel you there. Since I started working full time I've hardly done any drawing at all. I feel so disconnected from art, but I don't really have the time or energy to act on it.
I hope you're not too stressed out on the whole though. I wouldn't be too hard on yourself for not finding the time for your creative pursuits. I think that if the desire is there, they'll come back when you're ready. Otherwise you'll just make yourself miserable trying to live up to an arbitrary creative standard. Hang in there!
I hope you're not too stressed out on the whole though. I wouldn't be too hard on yourself for not finding the time for your creative pursuits. I think that if the desire is there, they'll come back when you're ready. Otherwise you'll just make yourself miserable trying to live up to an arbitrary creative standard. Hang in there!