Revisting the Creative Career of My Youth

For a while, thinking of possible career paths I may want to follow, now that I don't have so many kids at home, I for a while had overlooked the best option all together. I never even considered the industry that supported me as a young newly separated single mom. I wanted to find something that fulfilled my need to be useful and create but also where I would be in a welcoming and friendly environment. How did I ignore the Beauty industry?

I loved doing nails. I loved making little sculptures and paintings everyday. I loved making a women feel beautiful, unique and special. I am really excited to have begun the journey back to a job/Carrier I loved.

Notification of Reinstatement form has been sent in. Exam application submitted and accepted. Nail table and O.P.I. kit purchased and I am ready to take retake the practical section of the State Board Exam. Can't wait for my temporary permit to arrive so I can start real talks with Salon owners and find myself a spot in the world of beauty again.

 

Look for Blog Post soon with my nails I've done on friends and family while I get my techniques back in shape. I will also be reviewing all the new products that have come into fashions while I was out of the loop! Fun!

Dreaming of Fall?

Remember when you were young and it was actually a Fall month when school started?

My kids have been in school over a week now and Fall is over a month way. It's still poolside weather and I have no excuse waddle out and lay down in the kiddy area like beached marine life. I'm tired of the heat anyway. With it being so hot I don't want to do much outside but swim, and a lone 40 yr old mom...

Can you say awkward?

Worst of all, I'm lonely. I never was one of those mom's that celebrate when the kids go back to school. Not that there is anything wrong with how they feel. I understand it. I just hate being home alone. I just always want a partner in crime.

When the weather calms down yard work will be more fun. Walks, and hopefully, when my leg is better runs are more enjoyable. Not to mention the heat without any rain has Ragweed on full tilt. I really long for a nice 70 degree October afternoon! Stuck in the house I am looking for ways to occupy my time between when my youngest is off to school and my Senior is home.


Today I finalized plans to get myself ready to rejoin the workforce. So to add to my dreams of shorter days and lower temps, I am now dreaming of the day my reinstated professional license comes in the mail. I have to retake my state board practical exams next month. Wish me luck!

Now, what to do with the next 40 days?

Fixing I'm tired,but I'm up and heading to the Plaza art fair

 What can I say?  I am no good at this blog thing.  I knew I hadn't  kept at it often enough, or even been very interesting.
 I didn't know I wasn't even really blogging. I was journaling on a private website.  That is what I will call it, finding out months later that you never published 4 posting on you blog.

Private Website Journaling: Where even less people can read your Blogs with  0 subscribers!

The last few stories are oddly out of order as I just realized I had never click Publish and they were still in Draft.  So I  posted them in the time I had set aside to blog today. . . . I know, how will you live 6 months again for me to remember to do this?!?

Fear NOT! And enjoy my lame teasers:

• I have purchased my own pottery wheel. The first and most important cornerstone of my own home studio! Will get  its  own story with pictures and all soon.
• I am headed to the Plaza Art Fair at the Country Club Plaza tonight , for an evening of  fun and inspiration.

Just wait though, I get less computer illiterate everyday, and I am damn funny.  You'll see!

Public Service Announcement-Publishing on posts, I missed.

Drugs are Bad. Mmmm, K?!? -Mr.Mackey

They are. I may sound like a prude but they're bad.
People do stupid, wrong, and dangerous thing when they're on drugs. They hurt themselves, and others. They make bad choices on drugs.

As a kid I didn't get why a person would ever try drugs. What could be so good that you would break the law or but risk you health or life. I still don't know why people do what they do.

I was born in the early 70's so we got a lot of antidrugs information in school. I had teen relative tell me horror stories of classmates or of their own. Deaths, frightening halucinations. I was truely scared of the effects illegal drugs could have on my brain and physical health. I still am. I am heartbroken  about  drugs influence on the lives of people I have know and some, I love.

Say, NO to Drugs, their bad!

It's simple, it's funny, it's true! Mmmm, K?!?

It's spring already, isn't it?- Posting stories I forgot to click Publish on. I'll get this someday!

I am pretty sure my Hostas have unfuraled. My Surprise Lilys' leaves have been up for a few weeks. Robins are everywhere! It seems like the last of winter has held onto KC with a vice grip this year. Sure, we were teased a little a few times in the last few weeks with a few warm days, only making it worse. Where is the sun? Where is my springs?

I am not, typically, a person who needs the sunny, dry days. I loved carrying mail in the rain. It had to be pretty cold and windy for it to bother me. I rarely wore raingear, and then only to keep the mail dry. I will gladly play in the rain with my children, but this isn't a cool rainy day. It is dreary overcasts with a deep chill in the year, that is keeping me indoors. Is it my age? My health? I just don't want to go out even to my car. I might have become a hermit already if it wasn't for my clients and children.

I haven't been throwing this week and that always brings me down a bit. I get used to the tranquility that comes with it, and when I don't have time to get to the studio, everything else bothers me a bit more. But really, this is what I have.

I'm just saying, "Enough, already!".

Snowed in- Posting stories I forgot to click publish.

I guess they are calling this The Blizzard of 2011. I think I will call it Mom Prison '11, and it started right after Christmas break. The kids went to school for maybe 3 days and then Jack Frost really went to town. I have never seen this much snow, anywhere I have lived, in my whole life.

Don't get me wrong I love when I get more time with the boys, but they are getting so bored, and the cabin fever has sent in for everyone already. We've been sledding, watched movies, my oldest boy has shoveled yards. We have played uno and monopoly, crafted, and painted. And now they are getting their summer's wrecked from the weather.

To top it all off, my husband is hurt and off work, and stuck home with us . That's always fun!

Moving Right Along - Posting stories I forgot to click publish on. Someday I'll get this down.

After you find out what your really good at, you need to do it. That's not just a suggestion, it's my personal truth. You spend your days coming up with new ideas and things you want to try. It's like a creativity volcano building up pressure inside you. You have to let that tension out. Everything else you do frustrates you, because you want to doing what you love.

I really haven't been out to the studio enough lately, and I am feeling it again. All that anxiety that throwing pottery helped clear out, is now mounting slowing back up. The plan of going out more this month didn't not work out at all. In fact I went out far less.

Aren't Summers supposed to be relaxing with more free time. No school or after school activities. When did all that start spilling over into the summer? This weekend I have 4 animal clients (I am a pet sitter), baseball game, a trip to the water park for the boys, and 3 days of 4-H County fair activities. I am putting a stop to this madness now. I need to throw and create!!

And here is my plan:

• 3 weekdays we will be doing creative and learning fun at the Rea-Keeton house all day. This point in in affect starting now and every other week this summer. The other 2 will be spent at Worlds of Fun and Oceans of fun...got get out some, right!
• We will be encouraging dad to go fishing and play pool with his friends. So he will let us do what ever we wont in the kitchen and garage!
• I am promising myself to get to the studio twice this week for at least 2 hours each time.
• I am organizing the most kick butt CraftSwap! Getting my girlfriends together and having a blast sharing tools, supplies, ideas, and wine! And margarita's.
• Home organization. So it is easier to pull out supplies and be neat while we create out masterpieces.

This is the plan. Wish me luck!