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Creative Spring Fever

Does spring give you a creative boost?  Does it get you all ramped up to make and learn and create?

For me it does.  To the point where I am so ramped up that I am going in circles.  I have a massive urge to learn new creative things, try and experiment and just generally muck about.  It feels like a million ideas flowing through my brain - all at once.

The problem?  It is too much creativity right now.  There is so much going on in my brain and so many ideas that I can't seem to focus.  It happens to me every spring.  The urge to stretch myself is overwhelming.  I want to learn EVERYTHING.  I mean I am reading books on felting, bookbinding, crewel work, watercolors and so many more.  I just flit from one thing to the next - just soaking it all up and wanting to try it all.  The problem is that there are just not enough creative hours to fit it all in.  I mean if I worked all day just making stuff I couldn't fit it all in.  And since I obviously DON'T have ALL day to just create I feel frustrated.  When I do try tomake something I feel like I should be making something else or I need to go and get supplies for the new thing I want to learn and the I end up doing nothing.  Just going in circles I am!

Totally on creative overload and not able to create.  How crazy is that??  I mean I dream of feeling this creative and here I am complaining (well sort of complaining but not really -I have a smile on my face as I type this cause I can see how ridiculous it is!). 

So since I can't really focus I made myself sit last night with a crochet hook and I created these.  Something out of the norm for me and I was 'learning' so I was sort of satisfied - for about 2 seconds, lol!

Just fooled around and created.  A small project and they take little time to make so I was kind of satisfied.  I made MANY more than just these :) and I am not really sure what I am going to use them for but I like the way they look and they are all pretty tiny.  I figure I can use them on a scrap project or something - I have them in just about every color now!  LOL  It felt good to be creating - even if it wasn't some crazy loom weaving project or a wall mural....seriously, I have no room for a new hobby!  Scrapbooking takes up all the spare space in the house!

So that is me in a nutshell right now and probably for the next bit.  All ramped up on creativity and no way to get it out in a way that is completely satisfying.  :) 

Ah, if this was the worst thing in life then I expect that is pretty good! :)



4/11/2008 9:07:59 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #  Comments [5] 

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