It's snowing again. We've had 16 inches and set to get another 9. I knew, after all the hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes, that our weather was due to be weird. I normally love the change of seasons but this year I'm working and have to drive in it. I've already played bumper car with a snow bank. Guess I'll adjust but I have an ugly feeling this is gonna happen through May this year. (not the bumper car thingy, the snow)
My daughter is a nag. I know, I know, why have a blog if you're not gonna blog. Well, I've been busy. Made two large ribbons for her and three ribbon angels. Like the way they turned out. Glass is a pleasure I'm not getting much of these days. Cleaning, meetings, Christmas cards and decorating and work are getting in the way. Other words, real life. You can't cut glass if you're out Christmas shopping. You also can't blog. (please note, daughter)
I got this awesome glass. Think Van Gogh starry starry night. It's swirled in patterns like his painting. I got green and am going to make Christmas tree ornaments and pins. I really have to spend a few days organizing and thoroughly cleaning my workshop, however, before I begin creating again.
I contemplated covering my work table with a train set for December, and may do so. I can always cut glass at another table but first I must clean and organize. During the summer I'm so busy doing glass for the Medieval Faire and Fall Craft Shows that I let things get somewhat disorganized. I'm one of those folks who only clean when it becomes a nightmare.
I also have been told I have too much stuff but I'm not ready to relinquish any of it yet. I simply don't understand people who want to clean and organize until everything is bare and tidy. If you got the stuff because you like it to begin with, why on earth do you want to get rid of it after a few years. I mean, you acquired it because you liked it. Are you that fickle that you've changed your mind after a few years? Everything I own, whether it has purpose or not, was acquired because it appealed to me. Still does. Keeping with that same line of thought, just how come I have to organize according to the values of other people? Friends and family keep advising me, well you have to get rid of this or that, you don't use it. So? I look at it and smile - that serves a purpose, doesn't it? I'm 57 years old. Shouldn't I be able to do what I want, keep what I want, where I want, when I want? I think I've earned that priviledge. We are suppose to practice (and teach our children) autonomy. Don't follow the herd instinct. And yet, if you don't practice what the so-called herd wants, suddenly you're wrong. I don't get that. I'll get rid of my stuff, think what I want, watch tv shows I like, dress as I please, and generally be me and the rest of the world can go stuff a sock in it. Well, that made me feel better.
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The only stuff I encourage you to "get rid of" is all your glass supplies. Get to work and make all those beautiful things you have planned. Like cross stitch supplies or crochet supplies, you don't get extra points if you die with a lot of glass supplies stocked up (despite what Holley might think). But if you can make the world a nicer place with your art, then you should do it. It's a crime to waste talent and let supplies sit in a box in your workroom (disaster area or not).
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