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I can’t believe I almost forgot to blog about this… My Flying Squirrel was juried in to the 2008 Bead Dreams competition! I can’t wait to see who else made it in.

It seems like I can’t concentrate well on more than one thing at a time. I don’t just mean multi-tasking for simple tasks, although it did take me a little while when I was a kid to figure out how to pat my head and rub my belly at the same time.

If I have something challenging me at work, (as I have recently - in a good way since I get to learn some new technology) it seems to take up alot of my mental energy… When I get home I’m less likely to work on my own website or dig out my clay and try something new and ambitious. When things are a little more routine and I need a challenge, I start working on my own projects with renewed enthusiasm.

I think it works out fairly well though… As long as I don’t try to artificially force too much into my life. That’s when my art and hobbies become stress and work instead of an escape.

Not to say I haven’t been doing anything lately though I’ve done another round of fused glass, made my first PMC piece in the new kiln, then broke it while touching it up just a little more, then ordered some oil paste and fixed it… I also tried the glass powder freeze and fuse technique which allows you to make glass pieces from silicone molds. So I have been happily creative, I just haven’t been prolific. I will try to take some pictures and post on some of my attempts because there are some really interesting techniques.

But since I’m not forcing myself to get things done, I can’t promise exactly when that will be

Ok, I admit it. I am a procrastinator.

Admission is the first step to a cure, isn’t it? It usually isn’t too bad being a procrastinator. An approaching deadline inspires me to buckle down and finally make that masterpiece (hopefully!) that’s been lurking in the back of my head.

So, I had looked at the deadlines for a couple contests in April and put them on the calendar months ago and put the dates in the back of my mind. One was the 4th and one was the 15th. And of course I completely switched them in my head so that I thought the one I really wanted to enter (Bead Dreams) was on the 15th - plenty of time! Except it isn’t - it’s the 4th. I realized when I turned the page for the calendar. Doh!

At least it’s an online entry so I can still send something in. It just won’t end up being the piece I was thinking of making if I’d had the extra ten days I thought I had. Oh well, now where’s that application to Procrastinator’s Anonymous? Maybe I’ll send it in sometime