the art of starting a hundred things

I don't know if there's a word for that, if it's a disease or so, but I've become the Queen of Oh yes ! I love that ! Let's do it !! (speaking of doing somehing creative, not sex, of course !!!)

if you wonder what the heck I'm talking about, well, I'm talking about starting a kind of craft, and bouncing to another, sometimes leaving the first thing in the same state for ... er ... days, weeks, or months.

I really want to do it all ... really ! This almost first half of 2010 has felt like the most creative & artistic, for me. I'm dipping my toes in many different waters & I'm loving it. It's like opening to a hundred universes. I'm not saying that I'm good at everything I do, I've not gone totally nut (yet). But, I've realized that for all the crafts I've begun to do, I've started on a heartbeat, and even though I may not do everything in the most perfect kind of way (let's face it), I've found myself finding pleasure & great excitement (almost like a little girl) when crafting.

even though I've not been hooked on crochetting (the worst pun ever, I know), these are what I've been doing these last weeks & months :

sewing
(free hand) embroidering
watercoloring
drawing (with Microns)
zine making
papercutting
photographying
dyeing with plants

I'm getting very interested in :

fossils
botanic

it may seem short lists, but I think the list could go on & on (at least in my head it does)

this afternoon, right before leaving (of course ! it's always like that, anyway) to grab P at school, I felt inspired to grab the little embroidery hoop in which I had put some chambray in, weeks ago. (you know, just in case !). And I started embroidering the same rose I drew two days ago. In fact it is a Rosa canina (dog rose / églantier). I don't know what it will become, but I've finished it (compared to this photo, it's finished now).

speaking of fossils, yesterday we at long last had the idea to look at them in the microscop we acquired a couple of months ago. Of course these fossils are not flat so the focus wasn't on the whole fossil. I tried to figure how I could take a photo of what I was seeing, when my camera's lens touched the microscop's lens. I stopped breathing (like always when I take a photo) & clicked.

when you think that these fossils are 200 millions years old (saying this because we found them in blue marl, which existed in this area, 200 millions years ago) Where we found them, the sea was too, 200 millions years ago. Not anymore. Now, it's approx 30 km southern.

ok, girls, I'm pooped. The wind's been blowing like crazy since yesterday evening, and it did tired us like I would have never thought it would. Off to bed. Thank you so much for reading & stopping by.

xoxo

Sonia