what do you do when you lost your "muchness?"

 While watching Alice and Wonderland with my boys the other night, (the tim burton version) the Mad Hatter said to Alice, "you are Nothing much like the OTHER Alice, you have lost your Muchness."  which of course made me think of myself as of late.  I think for a while at least, i have lost my muchness.  Like so many of us, balancing all of our daily dailies we do, may leave us with out much time for, well, our muchness. It is one of those lovely times when your studio feels as if there's an endless ocean to cross in front of it, and your mind is seemingly void of spark and spice... what do you do??? if it was summer, i would most definitley be in my garden. But, it is wintery winter.  and so....i chose to...sew, uphoster, bake and do many other fabulous domestic tricks i could pull.....and i guess it is working, sort of...cause this weekend, i drew this....

And began to paint and work on this:

 

Now, leading up to my tiny break through moment, i poured my creative energy into being domestic debbie. and i OWNED it. really. So here are my latest projects:

I re upholstered one of my favorite chairs.

i made curtains. LOTS of curtains.

ooooooooh....look at my lovely hand stitching....

i re decorated my husband's studio/office (at home).  this was a xmas present. i literally did it all while he was asleep xmas eve.  it was fun until the sun came up. then, i got cranky quick!

so, i began re upholstering this chair and made all the pillows, but...that's when the sun came up and hammering and sewing just wasn't happening. (lots of pins are hiding behind the other side of the pillows....)

 This is one of my favorite prints i added to jeff's room. sorry the image is so blurry and my hand is in the photo!  silly iphone camera.  our good camera is sadly broken....um, anyway...this artist is Ryan Fowler check out his shop!

And this one of course...by one of my favorite artists, Juianna Swaney.  i'm sure many of you know her! but, here's her shop as well.

ok. so this was SUPPOSED to be in his office/studio, BUT....just too hokey for the room.  it only took me and Nate like 5 hours to make it!! (was a kit). it is lifesize and way cool. so now it's home is in the playroom.n Am i getting off the subject here? um, i think so. sorry. back to the muchness. or lack there of..

i have been baking A LOT. wonder why all the kids on our block keep stopping by after school??? these are my yummiest of yummies to make.  chocolate chip scones.  i think i can live on these. and coffee of course.

last, but definitely NOT least, we got these little loves.  yes. three kittens.  my husband of course said just get one...but...come on! me? i went to the shelter and among lots of litters of kitties, these three grabbed my heart.  and they had no mommy... so now they have three mommy's! or daddy's. my three boys.  (again how can you get ONE kitten if you have THREE boys???)  their names are: Sally, Shaun, and Theo. 

So there we have it.  next time i lose my muchness, i think we need to move. or get a farm.

 

Comments

[rivka]

I adored this post. I don't think you could ever lose your "muchness"... you're "much" just being yourself.

I absolutely love the new painting of the girl with wheels as feet. Your art work always touches me. It sure does.

Okay....off to etsy to see if that painting has been made into a print to buy yet!