Creative Every Day

2006: Year in Review

January 2nd, 2007

I like to do this every year on my blog, look back over the year, browse through old blog posts and go over what has happened. It's good to look back and be reminded how much can happen in just 12 months!

January: Started the Blogging the Artist's Way Group. Had no idea how big it would get, over 100 people joined in. Met some wonderful, bloggers. Got engaged! Fiansor caught me off guard with his proposal. Marraige planned for Oct. 2007.

February: Started to freak out over planning a wedding. Had a snow day. A desire to continue the feeling of AW is brought up and I create a new blog called Contagious Creativity (which I had to stop when I got overwhelmed with school and wedding planning and whatnot.)

March: As part of AW I draw a picture of what I'm not allowed to do: quit my job. (ha! see this is part of the reason I do this review. I would never have remembered this.)  Work has become very difficult and draining. I feel overwhelmed and get sick, both my ears get clogged up for days. I realize I need to set some boundaries.

April: More wedding planning craziness. I decide to take a blogging break. I come upon two baby foxes in the woods by myself. I watch them play for a bit, one of them notices me and we lock eyes for awhile, before I quietly walk away.

May: Engagement party in NY. See some old friends. We pick the date and location for our wedding.

June: Feeling conflicted about how I want to blog. School finally ends for the semester. My best friend gets engaged. Seems like everyone in my world is getting married and most of the weddings will occur before ours! One of my good friends is pregnant and I get to feel her baby kick.

July: I turn 30! Wonder about anti-depressants and if I could ever come off them. I finish a commissioned piece of art, a family portrait (husband, wife, cat, 2 dogs) and love it. I try on bridesmaid dresses for best friend's wedding. I'm feeling baby crazy. My grandmother's alzheimer's gets worse. My cat Emma needed several cavities removed. I have a blast at an alternative printmaking workshop with the best friend.

August: Go to a very random wedding in Vermont. Stay at the bestest Inn ever in Stowe, VT. The dress hunt begins in earnest. The fiansor and I go to the Natural History Museum in NYC.

September:  I buy a wedding dress.  Go to best friend's wedding as co-maid of honor, it was lovely. School starts up again, I consider quitting, but decide to stick with it. Younger brother is engaged. Another friend gets engaged.

October: I struggle with what to do with my blog and my art website. Making more art. I realize how far I've come with touch and I'm proud of my accomplishments.

November: 4th annual Art Everyday Month! 37 people join in and I meet some wonderful new blogging artists. I make a lot of art I love this year. With the support of the fiansor, I decide to leave my job and pursue my art full time. (This won't happen til the end of March, but the wheels have been set in motion.) I enter two pieces in a juried show.

December: The two pieces are accepted to the show, my first show in a long time. School is going better as I've learned to worry less and enjoy it more.  Fiansor wins his fantasy football league and wins the glorious trophy (ahem.) I start looking at art studio spaces. Met Melba and went to a fantabulous craft show. Had a long period of feeling low. Felt better and painted my face red.