Thank you @debbie-wagner! You're so kind to say so. I did just open a zazzle store which works really well for the tiles because they are difficult to ship and zazzle transfers them onto items for me. I almost forgot - I wonder if I should share that here? I'm not sure if that's okay on this website. Hmmm. So much to learn.
I love the idea of you and your son painting together and eating on TV trays so that you can keep your painting space for art! LOL! Awesome! I had used my dining room table all of last winter and we just ate at the other side of the table on days when I needed to leave my things out. :) Where there is a will there is a way, right?!
@cheryl-cowie I can completely relate to what you're saying. This space is very new for me. Until a few months ago my space was my kitchen table, which I had to clear by meal time every day... maybe lol. Sometimes I just wouldn't. I'd just move things over and we'd crowd in. My original space was on our sunporch, but when winter hit last year (I lived in PA last winter) I had to abandon that and make due with whatever could be done indoors, at our only table. I was very frustrated with the whole deal. My husband and I moved in May, leaving our adult sons in our home in PA. I have this nice room, dedicated to art and writing (unless we have visitors and then it's a guest room), and for that I am very grateful. If we hadn't moved, I don't know what I would have done but I suspect I'd have tried to heat the porch somehow, just to get some space and light back - and privacy. I miss our sons enormously, but I don't miss the snow they are getting, and I do enjoy having this space every day. I hope that someday you will be able to carve out a place for your own artwork, exclusively. Until then, you go girl! Keep doing your thing and let others work around you. If you're anything like me, I worked around everyone else's stuff, life, and schedules, for decades.... ugh. It was my turn.
@Bethb - show us when you put some things up! :) I like having the clothesline - I can move things around, save things for later, or just be reminded that I did that.
One day when I was feeling particularly worthless it occurred to me to take all of my drawings out of the folder they were in and hang them on the wall where I could see how wrong I was. It was a turning point for me.
01/20/17 08:29:11AM @mruki:
That is a wonderful idea. I just put up a metal wire across one of the walls of my art room but it has sat empty for at least a month now...I should start getting some paintings up there!
01/20/17 02:46:51PM @donnaf:
Yes! I found it really encouraging to have my art looking back at me. :) Go for it!
Thank you @debbie-wagner! You're so kind to say so. I did just open a zazzle store which works really well for the tiles because they are difficult to ship and zazzle transfers them onto items for me. I almost forgot - I wonder if I should share that here? I'm not sure if that's okay on this website. Hmmm. So much to learn.
I love the idea of you and your son painting together and eating on TV trays so that you can keep your painting space for art! LOL! Awesome! I had used my dining room table all of last winter and we just ate at the other side of the table on days when I needed to leave my things out. :) Where there is a will there is a way, right?!
@cheryl-cowie I can completely relate to what you're saying. This space is very new for me. Until a few months ago my space was my kitchen table, which I had to clear by meal time every day... maybe lol. Sometimes I just wouldn't. I'd just move things over and we'd crowd in. My original space was on our sunporch, but when winter hit last year (I lived in PA last winter) I had to abandon that and make due with whatever could be done indoors, at our only table. I was very frustrated with the whole deal. My husband and I moved in May, leaving our adult sons in our home in PA. I have this nice room, dedicated to art and writing (unless we have visitors and then it's a guest room), and for that I am very grateful. If we hadn't moved, I don't know what I would have done but I suspect I'd have tried to heat the porch somehow, just to get some space and light back - and privacy. I miss our sons enormously, but I don't miss the snow they are getting, and I do enjoy having this space every day. I hope that someday you will be able to carve out a place for your own artwork, exclusively. Until then, you go girl! Keep doing your thing and let others work around you. If you're anything like me, I worked around everyone else's stuff, life, and schedules, for decades.... ugh. It was my turn.
Great! I look forward to that!
@Bethb - show us when you put some things up! :) I like having the clothesline - I can move things around, save things for later, or just be reminded that I did that.
Bravo! Well done.
One day when I was feeling particularly worthless it occurred to me to take all of my drawings out of the folder they were in and hang them on the wall where I could see how wrong I was. It was a turning point for me.
That is a wonderful idea. I just put up a metal wire across one of the walls of my art room but it has sat empty for at least a month now...I should start getting some paintings up there!
Yes! I found it really encouraging to have my art looking back at me. :) Go for it!