After having my son, who is now 6 months, and busy as can be already, I started crafting and painting again. I hadn't done anything in about 2 years, and my creativity was screaming to come out. I always had good intentions of painting or making a craft of some sort, but I always had something else I found was more important. But now that I am a stay-at-home mother, I have some time to do these things. (I am very fortunate to be blessed with a happy baby who naps twice for 2+ hours. Although he does have his days.) So, I have been Facebooking all my recent works, and been getting lots of attention of it, so I thought, why not start a blog of things I make, find and love? I regularly check 6 blogs of talented woman who paint, craft or reuse, and more often than not, they give me the inspiration to keep on making things. Now that I have unleashed my creative monster, I can't stop!
Living in a small town (around 3 000 people), it has been hard growing up creative. When I was Gr.9 in high school, they cut the art class, since the school didn't have enough funding and a teacher willing to teach it. I atleast got my mandatory credit, but it shattered every dream I had of ever going to University for the Arts, since I need the prerequisites to get accepted. In Gr.11, I moved 2 hours away to take art at a high school with 900 students. Boy was that ever a shock. I was one of the top students in the art class and I made some beautiful pieces, but my living arrangements were not working out, so I moved back home before I could finish the last half of the semester. It was a very sad time. Then I entered Gr.12, and my favourite teacher (She teaches English), decided to take over the art program. She got enough funding to buy basic supplies, and everything they need to have a successful art class. Since it was a Gr.9 class, I was unable to take it, but I got to do something called "Peer-helping", which is basically and older student who does well in a particular area (which is art for me), who help the younger students. It is like a teachers aid basically, but you get a credit for it. Anyways, so I started "peer-helping" in this class, and boy it was ever fun. I loved being around art again, and I even got to get my creative on. Due to the lack of funding, we started to make things for a fundraiser, and we decided to make jewelery. Since we had to use what we had laying around, we used magazines, since numerous people donated them to the art program. So I started rolling paper beads, and thus my love for paper began.
I have a feeling that I may be rambling on, but I just thought I would give some personal information, and make this blog a little more personal. Although, I am one of those people who see lots of text on a blog and just skip it, unless I am really interested by it.
So, I think this where I will end this post, before it becomes too long. I can't wait to start posting and making things to post. Not to mention learning how to make this blog look how I want it too!
My son. This is after his 5th haircut! Isn't he so handsome?
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