Irony of ironies, I forgot about this blog. Work has just really stunk lately and I was just really getting sick of it. (Not sick enough to quit of course, I'm not crazy and I still have 2 kids to take care of) But sick of it none the less. I went to bed on Friday night and woke up at 3AM because the baby was crying. After nursing him and putting him back down I just couldn't sleep. All of the ideas I have had over the years for making this or that just started swirling around in my head. Finally I got up, searched in the dark for my sketch pad/journal (This alone was a miracle because I ended up finding it between the trunk and my bed) and went out to the living room. I just turned to the first available page and started drawing. I ended up drawing for hours, sketching every idea that came in to my head, and trying to refine the ones that didn't look so good upon first-sketch. Before I knew it the sun had risen and my son was awake and talking from my bed. I went to get him, and for the first time in weeks (maybe months) I felt like myself. I felt free and smart and ambitious and creative. My job had been slowly sucking all of those traits out of me and I had become a human robot. So it began. I decided that finally I would try and make a go of my ideas. I decided to start small, and picked a product line of children's hats that I had imagined. I bought the fabric yesterday and have been planning the actual product for the past couple of days. By the end of the month I expect to have my prototypes ready to post on etsy.com. I'm excited and anxious and a little scared.
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