Posts Tagged With: projects

Mother Nature, and Creative Breaks

I haven’t written much since summer started. I’ve been working, and relaxing, visiting friends, and family, and generally trying to find joy. The most important lesson I’ve learned recently, is that there is healing in joy. “Productive” is a relative term. I don’t have to be working to be productive. In fact, I feel that I’ve been very productive this summer, but not in many ways I can show externally. There is something incredibly special about rekindling your inner passions, and I think I’ve spent most of the summer trying to heal the parts of myself I’d been neglecting.

I have been writing on and off. I’ve even started (and finished) some sewing projects. There isn’t really a time limit on life, so whether I finish something right now, or give myself permission to take my time on something, what really matters is how I feel at the end of it. I’ve been camping, and fishing. I picked 6lbs of blueberries with my family, and I’ve driven in the middle of the night to go star gazing. By letting myself experience life, and giving myself permission to rest when I’m tired, I think I’ve been more productive, honestly.

I’ll leave you with this photo I captured of my father and my daughter fishing on the lake. Mother nature is so beautiful, and I know I’m privileged to share it with such special people.

~ Ali Kat

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The Year of Projects

I’ve got big plans this year. If I can complete half of them I will be thoroughly impressed with myself! My brain is full of creativity. It overflows with ideas from multiple mediums. I knit, draw, paint, write, music, basically if it can be art-ed I have/will try it. The problem with having all that in my head, is when I sit down during my rare free time, I spend more of it figuring out which project I should tackle than actually tackling the project. This could also explain my bits of insomnia I get because I’m always thinking of how I can do/use objects/things in a creative way. And don’t forget I do have homework every week, and I start a new job on Monday.

You would think I would be good at prioritizing which tasks need to be done in order of due date, but my brain doesn’t work like that. I will start something, switch to something else, go back to the first things, switch to something else, go back to the second thing… You can imagine my apartment, filled with unfinished projects (this is why I need a house with a real studio). So far, the only thing I’ve managed to keep up to task on is being involved with my blog. I’m posting regularly, and interacting with the people I follow! (yay!) I’ve still got a lot of knitting to do, which I’ve been slowly plugging away at, and a new painting project I just bought a canvas for on Thursday that I’m super stoked to start as soon as I can decide on the kind of picture.

I’m really interested in dabbling in more impressionist style, and I got some really cool looking shells down at the beach I’d like to incorporate in a sort of mixed media. I was thinking maybe fairy-wings? But if I crushed some of them up maybe they’d make cool stars against the nights sky? But I love the way the sun glows… See where this is going? Never mind the reading I haven’t done in, oh, I don’t know, 2 or 3 months? I read 45 books last year, some of those were a popular comic called The World God Only Knows, but I still find that impressive. It’s a new yearly record for me. Usually I start January all gung-ho, but this year I haven’t looked at a book, let alone picked one up to read. (December was the TV catch up game so I feel fine on that front).

I need a time chart. Some kind of organization regime for my life… as if that could possibly work with the way I obsess when I start a new project, HA! But ANYWAYS, this post is all over the place (apparently like my life) so I’m going to sign off. My husband wants to eat dim sum and that’ll take some time. Homework sounds like a good plan for now, then I’ve got a dishcloth pattern I’ve been hankering to try. It’s so cool, and you end up with a raindrop pattern. Ciao for now ladies and gents!

~Kat

P.S. I like how this is my author blog and I did not say one single thing about the book collecting dust on my hard drive… I should at least open it probably. That is what got me here after all 😛

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