Blogging Mojo
Where has it gone? I think The Artists’ Way ate it. We are hosting a meeting of an Artists’ Way group for the next few months, and I am determined to get alllll the way through the book this time. It’s supposed to help you unlock or unblock your creative potential, and I haven’t been feeling overly creative lately, so I need and want to do it.
One of the activities for this week was to add up where I’m spending most of my time – the top three or four things I do that consume the bulk of my time. Mine were work, sleep, commute and getting ready for work, in that order. And, I first figured out I had an extra eight hours a day unaccounted for, so WTH? Except, lest we forget that I am a dumbass, I am a dumbass and did the math wrong. Turns out I have an extra three hours a day to perform all the other life functions, like wash clothes and play with kittens and read the mail and every other damn thing (groceries, husband, etc). So, I’m going to try to do micro bursts and flail around with glue and thread and shiny bits for 30 minutes a day. We’re also supposed to do a three hour Artist Date each week, which … frankly, Internet, this whole thing is making me want to take a nap. The Artist Date is supposed to be a fun outing that helps to get the creative juices flowing. Um, three hours? Really? The most fun I can imagine in a three hour block is a nap. Maybe I could take a nap outside and have creative dreams? . . . I’ll keep you posted on this.
The store has been crazy busy, which is fabulous, but the shelves are in need of some serious reorganizing. We have found some reasonably priced storage space nearby, so we’ll be able to move out a lot of materials that belong to the nonprofit and spread out some of the other stuff a little bit more. We’ll keep a representative sample of what the nonprofit offers to teachers and other nonprofits in case they want something in a big hurry, but the going forward plan is to open up once or twice a month at the storage space and let the nonprofit goodies flow out into the community. Pretty excited about that.
We were mentioned in a Houston Magazine article about the First Ward Arts District and its gathering whirl of artists and cool hipsters of all sorts. That was thrilling, except my last name is wrong, which is funny, because about half of the customers don’t know my first name, and about 15% of the ones who do think it is Rhonda or Roberta or Regis or something else that starts with R. So, I answer the phone and the caller will say, “Roberta?” And, I say, “Yes! How can I help you?” Anyway, it was very cool to be included.
In other big news, Oprah did a bit on where to get rid of your stuff, and creative reuse centers like ours were listed as an option for people. Three of the older creative reuse centers in California, North Carolina and Florida were listed by name, with the suggestion that readers google “creative reuse” in their area to find their closest spot. Got that covered for Houston, for sure.
We updated the website to include a ReArt tab, which will showcase the works we have on consignment. They sometimes get lost in the shuffle and jumble and generally overwhelming nature of a visit to the Texas Art Asylum. I still have to upload the pictures, though, so don’t click over there just yet. I’m doing good to get this blog post up, for Pete’s sake. This is cutting into my three hours!!
And, in news of a very basic insane nature, I just thought I saw a bear on the patio. I live inside the city limits, but I jumped up and ran (hobbled) to the window, because I was sure it! was! a! bear! Right. It was a giant trash bag blowing around. Looked like a bear though …
