In a creative, progress stump I think....
Random kinda funny weird "thing" I figured out a few days ago....
I had pulled up my first "Ya torch is light!" Photo on FB looking for the date of my "anny".
Date hit me then.....had not before as I was way to excited with well fire.
The kinda weird this IS.....I joined the Navy Aug 2nd, 2001...on Aug 3rd, 2001 I had my first sleepless night at boot(I of course being the teen girl I was had huffed and rolled my eyes
great start!) Spent about 4 hours of it standing at attention with my nose to a glass window...and an RDA randomly yelling at me. Said I couldnt leave until I told him the chemical composition of that glass window.... which course I didnt know. Im all like umm well sand? n stuffs I think 0o Which course he didnt care it was just a mess with the recruits head method of the moment. (and I got proof! Cause my first letter home I told dad what happened and please let me know the answer
And if you are suddenly wondering there isnt a single chemical composition for glass varies by type and maker ... Anyway)
Exactly ten years later Aug 3rd, 2011 ..... I got the last needed parts in for studio and I fired up for the first time ever, started lampworking officially, and melted my first slug blob thingy.(and course being of such generation took a photo and stuck in on FB to show all my friends Before I even sat down)
But its Weird no?
Anyway...whole point of post is(just randomly felt like sharing that story bit)
Is I am feeling really stuck with my work atm. Have felt like I was always growing for years...each new was a bit better then last time! and I do know Ive come a hell of long way in glass, in photography, in learning to market myself all around.
But the Last few months...lot more just making copies of stuff I've already made. Hating on made to orders ATM... And it's fine work, customers are happy but it's not better...and its sure not a push forward artistically nor in skills. Oh Joy another yellow submarine sold... which I was tickled pink with when I made the first for my brother(he's a Beatles fan, a submariner in the navy, and loves wine was like the perfect gift on all counts) Now Im just like Crappp...
Yes My attitude bloody sucks right now!
I bought a bunch of millies, alien/enterprise/r2dr to stick in my starry nights.... At First I was really excited going to geek out stuffs! and Meh some how its the same old crap I just stuck someone else's hard work in the middle of mine as the focus point! OH YAaaaa
They will likely sell but.. still... and ya need stuffs to sell as that's how we feed kids around here now but Still feelin BLAH!
And I know everything has cycles, and this likely is to be expected.....all creative types have slumps.
Suggestions on how the heck to push forward?
What do you do when it gets like this.
Help