I just received a nice helping of yarn with my library book drive-by, from the knitting group stash. Quite a bit of it is my own handspun which I donated, and other yarn I'd passed on.
Some of this stuff has its own frequent flyer miles. It's all great for Izzy dollmaking.
My stash. All spun by me or upcycled, hence the small amounts.
On a different topic, my art exhibiting life may have ended, there being no opportunities in the foreseeable future, all the buildings closed, the organizations struggling to survive.
So it may be that I move on. I do have some as yet unseen framed pieces to exhibit if the planets ever get in the right configuration again, but I'm reconciled to looking at my next phase.
I had a wonderful run, plenty of rewards and awards, nothing to sigh about. And it's possible I've said all I need to in fine art, the framed work you see exhibited and juried, all that. I've taught hundreds of adults drawing and printmaking to open those doors for them.
My exhibiting life lasted nearly forty years, so I'm okay with it. I'll still make art, always have, but with different purposes in mind.
Not the first time I've reinvented my art life. This is separate from my professional life in which I did all sorts of interesting work, always did art anyway at the same time.
I wrote when Handsome Son was very young, sold loads of stories, serious nonfiction, verse, humor essays. Three, blessedly unpublished, novels wherein I learned the short form was my thing.
After seven years, enough sales to pay son's medical bills,close to a million words, and many writing workshops taught to adults, a jointly written book on learning disabilities, my work used in graduate special teacher ed textbooks, I decided I had said everything I could in word form, and turned to seriously working in art.
So now this may be another exciting crossroads. Life's about forward movement. Also a banquet. And my plate's been heaped over and over. Now thinking about the next course. I don't do things just because I always have. So I'm open to enjoying whatever I can next. And to blogging about it.
