If I can just make it thru this next little while......

A few days - a few weeks - a couple of months..... it seems that I always have something that keeps me from reaching a horizon. Or at least keeps me from getting to my studio. Right now, it's the last of the garden planting. AND a big-deal Bike Ride www.bran-inc.org that is cruising thru my town for an overnight on Monday. AND a big change-over on my software at the office. All in the next two weeks. So my creative pursuits right now are limited to soil and plants. And a couple little things for the Bike event. [Why did I say we'd do that bike thing? Sheesh..... You'd think I'd learn sooner or later. We're a little village of about 330 people hosting 800+ for 3 meals an an overnight. Too much work for too few workers. And it's my fault cuz I'm the one who said we'd do it - a clear case of too much power combined with too little will.]

We're running about 4 separate meal sites for the bikers, which hopefully will provide enough variety and enough seating to get them thru in good time. So tonight, I'm going to bake several foccaccias for a spaghetti feed, plus 10 dozen cupcakes for a BBQ. Then tomorrow I'll put together a lasagne casserole and a scalloped potato/smokies casserole for the potluck supper, and then I'll make these dumb Burma-shave type signs to put up along the bike route. And Monday morning I'll get up @ 5:30 to go put them out for the riders to see on their way in, and come back home to do cookies for after the cowboy poetry program. Oh yeah - tomorrow I also have to work 8 hours at my second job.

And so that's why I don't get to go to my studio much these days. I'm keeping it cooled, tho, just in case I get a chance to pounce up there for a bit. Today we went to the garden centers (40 mi North) and picked up more ornamentals (geraniums, sedum, salvia, herbs, etc) and I took along a book - The Fabric Design Book by Karin Jerstorp and Eva Kohlmark. I'd read it a long time ago, but kinda forgot I had it on the shelf, so it was nice to skim thru it again today. There are a lot of really interesting exercises in it - some done on cloth, but others as tissue collage, drawings, etc. Just a really good little push-you-into-it design book. Here's the cover:

I think when I have time I'll carve some potato stamps and get out my tempera paint and some newsprint and have at it. Just do some goofing and see what develops. But first... cupcakes.