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If I am being 100% honest, I have to admit that I spent a good chunk of the Summer feeling like I had "nothing to say" in this space. I did a few projects, pulled together a few sets of eye candy for my Obsession of the Moment series, and recycled a few older posts so I could take a few blog vacations, but in general I was just feeling uninspired. I wondered many times if I had simply lost my creative juices.

But last weekend, when I found myself with a few minutes of quiet time as my kids took a rare but golden afternoon nap, I glanced at the laptop, and then let my eyes wander further to my paintbrushes. I shut the computer and lost myself in watercolor for awhile. I realized that over the past several months I've had PLENTY to say, I've just found a new way to say it.


This post is not in any way indicating the end of this blog, or even announcing a perceptible change in what you'll see here. In fact, now that I've announced that I've been feeling un-inspired, I am pretty sure that an enormous wave of inspiration will hit me and I'll be typing up enough posts to back log for months. That's the way it tends to work for me.

But I wanted to share it for a few reasons. First of all, because if the style of what gets posted here does change, it's simply changing in order to be an accurate reflection of how I'm changing. I don't think that I have ever written, or would ever want to write, in a fake tone that isn't me. So, if these days I'm spending my free time painting instead of organizing closets, I have to tell you that and show you  my paintings instead of my closets.


More than that though, I wanted to share what's going on because art is something that I never thought I was capable of. I have avoided art and told myself that I "wasn't good at it" without ever trying. I was not one of those kids always doodling in class, always knowing in my heart that I'd be an artist when I grew up. I never really knew how to draw, but I also never gave myself the chance to learn.

I've spent years categorizing myself as a certain type of person- I am organized therefor not creative. I have a degree in Science, so I am not meant to explore Art. I like numbers and spreadsheets and straight lines. But you know what? I also really like painting, and drawing, and embracing the imperfectness of my art.


So, this post isn't necessarily what you'd normally see here, but I guess that's kind of the point. Consider this your call to action to try something new, something scary, something that you always talked yourself out of. Just give yourself a chance and see what happens.