Wow, I really s-ck at this.

I feel really, really guilty for not posting this whole year. But please understand - I've been really, really busy. Really, really.

I did indeed do two outdoor sculptures this past spring - one at TCCD-NW called Spring Circles and the other - Prairie - as the featured artist for Prairie Fest in FW at Tandy Hills Park. The TCC piece is still there, the Prairie piece was a one-day marvel. I was pleased with both. That ate up my spring, and my summer hybrid class ate up my summer - unbelievable how much time that took. I just thought I was prepared. The good news is that if I teach it again next summer (and I would like to), it's done enough that it won't eat my summer up. This is, of course, on top of my regular job. I had my dad and his wife visit us at the beginning of the summer, and got a kid off to college at the end of summer and that was it, pretty much - my life for the last 7 months.

Now I'm scrambling to finish artwork for fall shows - no biggies, but just some little works. But I want them to be nice works, and I think they'll just be OK works. No more time to tinker - just have to get them in the frames. I watch jealously as my artist friends bring in new works for shows and tell me about all their other shows and new works and I WANT TO BE THERE! I'm tired of having to sacrifice my time, my energy, my creativity for everybody else. So I've said it. Now I have to make some changes. I know what the first one will be; I just have to schedule it in.