9/18/2022: Week 1.
Main activity: 3 hand written daily pages in the morning (using fountain pen on back porch for fun).
Artist Date: Watching September Issue and reading this September's issue of Vogue.
-Not as inspiring as I had anticipated, but did rearrange the furniture in the front room after?
9/25/2022: Week 2.
Artist Date: 9/23 went to Fascination of Orchids show at the Zoo. Picked up a cute $25 Phalenopsis they said was unnamed but a descendent of Schilleriana. The parent was purple. This one has 9 buds, with purple stipling in the center. My pre-shop notes say Schilleriana smell like roses, which I would say was pretty apt. Phal it seems also like less sun than the Oncidiums and I'm suspecting oncidiums are getting too much sun on the back porch given their yellow leaves and spotting. Or perhaps I am watering them too much because these guys say water weekly and fertilize every other week or so to the woman in front of me who said she was having trouble getting hers to rebloom as well. Hmm. They also have $10 nodosos they could ship. Orchid Design is San Jose based ad the couple is Angelic and Dave. I stopped at Sunset Valley Orchids, struck with what I think was a golden yellow orchid with a pink lip at the start-- learned it was a Cattleya $65 and that it would have more staying power than some other varieties because of the waxy leaves of one of its parents. Many Cattleya's are fragrant as well. But when I came back to their booth, it was gone, so I guess he sold it? Other booths had no banners up about which business they were. The vendors list also didn't help much because some did not have distinctive enough names to be able to find them through search. Oh well. Talking to Dave and Angelic a bit was a vast improvement over the quick tour of the show I did last year and went home intimidated. woot. I guess that means I've had Sharry Baby for over a year now? Wow.
10/18/2022
Week 5 going into week 6. Procrastinating on artist date of drawing dirty heads lyrics into a coloring book sort of thing. Skipped ahead to getting info about 3 book clubs. Getting sick of the morning pages rants about the same topics. I do it in the middle of the night a lot and I'm not sure if it is helping or hurting my sleep.
10/22/2022
Artist date: Tea time Native deodorant sniffing. Favorite in general-- lavender. Also OK-- powder, citrus musk. Meh-- coconut vanilla (can't smell it very well/edible), wildwood cardamom (can't smell it at all, not woodsy). This felt like a lame date, but we're working out an arrangement where I do something artistic and indulgent daily versus hoping for some big gesture weekly.
11/20/2022
I've been slacking on the artist dates... More art in my life overall, but dedicated time by myself to go and do is hard to come by. This morning, my artist date was to selfie with all my tops in a well lit area. Get into a rabbit hole of machine learning color analysis (very inconsistent results, but ultimately sounds like I am a soft autumn). The tldr on this was that I should avoid bright colors-- which includes black? That my coloring is pretty neutral, perhaps slightly warmish but could pull off cools too. Lots of purple-pink-mauve and mossy shades in there which is fine by me. Personally surprised I look good in brown which a youtuber said was trending this season. White is very electrically bright, maybe it washes me out? but everything does. The off-whites look equally OK to me and are logistically easier to launder. Navy and grey are still favorite standbys. Red and rusty red for a pop of color.
Messed around a lot with camera filters and decided I am super not happy with baggy eyes -- perhaps the contour concealers I ordered yesterday will help? general skin ruddiness. and upper lip hair. Hmm... Oh! and I made a second pour over with a mint sprig that has all the lift of a peppermint mocha and hardly any of the calories. Cannot believe that they are out of peppermint at starbucks and how ravenous people were to buy drinks in the "red cups" last Thursday... Oh, I'm googling it and these were reusable, which makes sense... it seemed surprising we were so narcissistic that everyone just wanted a disposable red cup for a selfie...
12/12/2022 -- well, I've got 100% adherence on writing 3 pages in the morning-- the price for this seems to be that this would be husband's preferred pillow talk time and I sometimes feel like a jerk for popping out of bed and getting started on the to-do list, or when I don't, to resent that decision as I crawl through the day feeling extra behind. I've been a little more indulgent and less frugal on arty stuff-- the latest project is buying a bunch of scents and starting some candle making experiments. I didn't do a great job on dedicated "just me" artist dates weekly-- it seems like the family is at a phase where people get sick or the weather takes a turn on those days we had blocked out as mommy break go do an artist date. But it is gratifying to see the kid taking more of an interest in craft projects. In general, I'm frustrated that my artistic self seems less accessible than the first crack I took at this program-- sure, I'm a little more in the now, but I didn't unleash a groundswell of possibilities and inspiration the way I vaguely remember my first unblocking. I am still largely in block and tackle tactical mom-mode. Cameron has many other books out of this nature, so I think I'll continue doing daily pages as a sort of moving meditation and working through some of these.
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