Long time....no write

No, no....you're right... I haven't seemed to be able to have found the time to update my blog...my Facebook..do anything other than work at Michael's Crafts Store and do the usual eating, sleeping and burping.

It's just got to stop. Life has to start, and has to restart, and start again....

I had a pretty good handle on things for a while in my little cave in Palm Coast....I am now living in a townhouse in Ormond Beach, and recreating my world here..again. I'm not knocking it...moving out of my daughter's home in Palm Coast allowed her to be Queen of her castle without Mom being around...which has been good for her and good for me. I've got a great roommate, my dogs Pearl and Wiggles love their morning walkies in the Trails, with squirrels and armadillos at every turn....

Still, I haven't gotten a handle on my artist persona...the one I nurtured and babied and breathed life in to when I owned an art studio and gallery in Kentucky....the one I thought I could bring back to life after a nasty emotional blip in the road. This bothers me each and every day....I never seem to have the time to sit and do art...I'm either moving stuff in and out of one house or the other or working really crazy hours that totally break up the day...I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever recover.

I know things will calm down eventually and I'll find that artist within again...I have a festival in Fernandina Beach the first weekend in May, and frankly, I'm petrified...what if I don't make any money? What if I don't make enough money to make it all worthwhile? My festivals last year were good enough, but then, the art community has taken a downturn, just like most things that are deemed "not necessary."

Ah, who cares...I am an artist....and need to do art. I need to make the time to do it. Screw the world, screw the money and just do it. It's time for this gal to pony up to the bar and get things done......

But, there's oysters at Snack Jack's at Flagler Beach, and Saturday is "Turtle Day," and it's 80 degrees outside...sigh...that seems to be my biggest problem...living in Florida, a few minutes from the beaches...life is so beautiful out there....