Well the countdown begins toward the birth of my little boy, Hopefully he comes on New Years Day like the doctors say. So we have his crib setup and his outfits are all ready to be hung up. We bought him baby books last night. Fairy Tales , legends and a few of Aesop's fables ! So reading to my belly last night I got inspired to do some Nursery Rhyme pieces, maybe in a comic book style, I haven't decided yet . I am so busy with my little guy's arrival that I haven't actually sat down and gotten my head straight. Pregnancy weight really slows you down. I love sitting with my pastels and paints , doing my work with my bare hands . However the fatigue has had me sleeping in most days. So i think my next pieces will have to be on the computer with the wacom tablet. It helps a lot speeds up the process of producing pieces but on the other side of the coin it doesn't have the same feel as a paint brush .

Things have been a little shaky on the home front . Not sure where things will lead or what I will end up doing this time next year, except for being little baby Viridian's Mommy. However, to get my brain off the things that have brought me down I took a trip to the library this morning in search of inspiration! Well I found it , rummaging through the books I found one on the rainforest with tons of lovely photographs of animals and oddities from the forest floor. So I am going through right now and making up my mind which ones I think will look best in which media, most of them will most likely end up in a mixed media format. Well it gives me something to do and be excited about while I wait for my little guy to get here on New Years Day. !

Woke up this morning still feeling depressed and to my surprise , Grandma invited me to join her on a trip to a picnic that was honoring her professor's retirement and a reunion of the multimedia graduates up to present. I felt thrilled and my mood lifted like a weight off my shoulders! I ran into so many kind people and they each had such a positive glow. The weather was so bright out, it was really hot in my area but the sun rays made me feel so warm inside and the motivational speech Grandma gave me today along with it , just gave me the boost I needed again. I feel like my mind is clear and I am ready to tackle my goals and start my move forward to what I want in life. I came up with my list of ideas on sticky notes, tomorrow will be the first day I start my plan to complete each idea. I think today is really going to change the style of my work and that excites me.

I have been daydreaming about doing some random 3d pieces, maybe landscape to start out with more of a fantasy look. I am also thinking of faeries and mythological creatures as well. I just don't know where I will get the materials from at the moment. I also think about making backgrounds like in photography and taking pictures behind them sparkling fabrics and glitter, crystal and orbs.

Baby is kicking up a storm as always, and I can't sleep. Part of me doesn't really want to sleep anyway .I have been on youtube making slideshows and that has allowed me to keep up with some of my creativity and people have been slowly responding to my youtube channel, Its mostly informational and I will start working on some instructional videos as well. This week is a new moon and that is always a wonderful start for brainstorming and rethinking plans in a new light and do things differently, . So maybe i'll make myself a list of things to make new pieces out of and place sticky notes all over my wall . Maybe this time I will actually get these pictures out of my head and onto the canvas. yeah , that sounds like an idea, i'll just take down the stickies one day at a time and see what I get , but first I need to upload all the pieces I did toward the end of my last semester. I still have plenty of images that are trapped inside of my sketchbooks