Pre-CoCo blahs??
Here I sit, wondering why I am not as excited about CoCo as I should be. Normally I would be packed by now, and trying to spend my time doing last minute "where is it" questing at this point. Today, eh.
It isn't my monthly cycle making me feel blah, as that is thankfully passed. It isn't the desire to see my friends, that I often only get to see at CoCo... I am really looking forward to seeing them. But I think for me, I am ... blah. And I don't know why I am blah.
Maybe it is because I don't have an awesome costume that I've spent hours and hours trying to finish just in time that I must show off to my friends. I haven't done that since the first year I went when I ended up spending every night sewing it to finish (never again). Maybe because I don't have an absolute MUST GO TO class this time, like I usually do. There are classes I do want to go to, and have marked on my booklet sitting next to me as the class to go to, but... (and no offense to those teaching those fine classes)
I think I am feeling a downturn in my costuming interest, yet again. I go through these, although I have projects to do (need pearls), projects I want to do (go shopping), different than usual projects that must be done (must finish patterning), and projects that are waiting in the wings.
I am hoping that with all of the inspiring costumes I keep reading about that will be fluttering by on the bodies of my friends and soon to be aquaintences, that those yummy gowns will inspire my heart to do something, to create something, and to enjoy this weekend away from the kids (which believe me, I need this vacation on that aspect alone). And maybe even enjoy a dip in the pool sometime (bathing suit washed and hang drying even now).
And it is a good thing that my sketch book, pencils, eraser, rulers, and watercolors are the only required tools for this weekend. I think I need to doodle again, and sketch, and just let my mind kinda flow on what it is that *I* like, what moves me. I think I need that, on various levels, for various things. It has been too long I think. And it is a lot easier to pack, too.
Well, off to pack my clothes.
It isn't my monthly cycle making me feel blah, as that is thankfully passed. It isn't the desire to see my friends, that I often only get to see at CoCo... I am really looking forward to seeing them. But I think for me, I am ... blah. And I don't know why I am blah.
Maybe it is because I don't have an awesome costume that I've spent hours and hours trying to finish just in time that I must show off to my friends. I haven't done that since the first year I went when I ended up spending every night sewing it to finish (never again). Maybe because I don't have an absolute MUST GO TO class this time, like I usually do. There are classes I do want to go to, and have marked on my booklet sitting next to me as the class to go to, but... (and no offense to those teaching those fine classes)
I think I am feeling a downturn in my costuming interest, yet again. I go through these, although I have projects to do (need pearls), projects I want to do (go shopping), different than usual projects that must be done (must finish patterning), and projects that are waiting in the wings.
I am hoping that with all of the inspiring costumes I keep reading about that will be fluttering by on the bodies of my friends and soon to be aquaintences, that those yummy gowns will inspire my heart to do something, to create something, and to enjoy this weekend away from the kids (which believe me, I need this vacation on that aspect alone). And maybe even enjoy a dip in the pool sometime (bathing suit washed and hang drying even now).
And it is a good thing that my sketch book, pencils, eraser, rulers, and watercolors are the only required tools for this weekend. I think I need to doodle again, and sketch, and just let my mind kinda flow on what it is that *I* like, what moves me. I think I need that, on various levels, for various things. It has been too long I think. And it is a lot easier to pack, too.
Well, off to pack my clothes.