All
I've managed to do here lately has been to keep making endless design
changes, rather than writing about anything substantial. I guess it's
enough for now to say that the design here may be in flux for a while.
Lots
of real changes happening lately have just made it necessary for me
to attend to real life issues, and have left me less time for this
computer folly.
First,
my son got married July 3 here in Chicago. Everything felt like chaos
before the wedding, but in the end it all fell into place and turned
out fine. I'll be expanding on that whole experience in some upcoming
entries.
The day
after the wedding we went to Madison to do an art fair which turned
out to be so good that I had to question why it is exactly that I'm
so eager to give up the jewelry design biz.
Shortly
after I returned, my daughter and her fiancé announced their
engagement. So there will be another wedding to plan for next summer.
I'm very happy for them, but wedding planning is not my favorite thing
to do.
I just
started taking some classes in bookbinding at the Chicago
Center for Book and Paper at Columbia College. I completed a weekend
intensive, and beginning this Monday I'll start another class. It's
the first thing I've been really excited about in a long time. I originally
thought that I would concentrate more on the practical aspects in
order to try to learn conservation and restoration techniques. That
would be so useful in the rare and collectible book business. If I
were any good at it, I would I certainly have many opportunities to
offer my book binding skills to the many dealers whom I have come
to know over the last several years. I could probably make another
good business out of that craft. I still want to pursue that. It seems
so practical and sensible. But...once I was in the class, ideas for
artists books just started flowing into my brain, so I don't know
how really practical all of this will end up being. I think I may
just have to... ummm...."go with the flow" on this whole
plan.
Of course
I like the idea of opening myself up to all the creative possibilities.
In fact, I don't think it will be possible for me to resist that seduction.
It will be such a pleasure to get back into that mental space. I have
missed being creative for a very long time now.
Very
soon, I hope to get back to updating here more frequently also. But,
for now, this is just another little place holder.