So, the new dilemma: so many ideas for quilts and jewelry and paintings! Dilemma, you say? It certainly won't be a dilemma when I hit that artists block, right? Well, now I have to agree with that, but having so many ideas running through my mind and only 24 hours in a day to allow them to manifest into a tangible item...now that's a different story! I am always waking up in the middle of the night from a dream involving a new jewelry design or quilt idea! "Keep a drawing journal" you say. "Keep a notebook with your ideas scrawled into them" you might add. Yea, well right, while that idea is a good one, I am already doing that! Along with my color combo scrapbook, and my quilt inspiration scrapbook, and my.....(it could go on and on). I could spend so much time scrap booking and not actually producing anything...maybe I could sell the scrapbooks! I have this problem with my beads. I love the feeling of beads running through my fingers so much that when I am getting creative burn-out and need a day off, I grab my 40 pound test (green to be precise) fishing line and start stringing beads just to keep them organized and together. My husband calls it my "time-waster" chore. I call it bliss. He calls me crazy!
So, essentially, I don't think that I am having a problem keeping track of my ideas. I am having a problem finding 40 hours in a day to completely lose myself in my beads, fabric and threads. No kids, no husband, no grand kids....just pure unadulterated fun with raw materials. And then I wake up and write that one down in my idea journal! (too bad I can't figure out a design for that one!)