Back to the Land of the Living

       It's probably time for me to join the living....I've had the hardest time making the first step back since returning from Art & Soul. (I'll tell you all about it soon)

After being back a week or so, hubby announced that I was in hiding.  I denied it saying I was just recouping from the art retreat....in the meantime, it's been almost impossible for me to email anyone, answer orders from my website, answer my phone, listen to my voice mail, type in my journal....anything, basically.  I finally accepted the truth about two weekends after the retreat.  I think in a way it's more like the after Christmas let down as a kid, you know?
The retreat was incredible!!  I loved every bit of it.
This photo is the front part of the shrine I made in Sally Jean's Class.
This window has been up and I've been typing on and off all day...I'm going to just post now and write more tomorrow.  thanks for peeking in.  oxox

Comments

[Patty O'Rourke]

hi, Tracy! so glad to see you're "back among us." I know exactly what you mean about that feeling of being overwhelmed, and then everything shuts down for awhile. "down for maintenance" is how I refer to myself during those times. there is an interesting theory about how women create - that the idea, the inspiration, the figuring out "how" is secondary to actually completing the project. men are more concerned about finishing something, getting something accomplished. (must be a hunter/gatherer thing...) that's why women (creative women) always seem to have fourteen different projects going at once! anyway, just wanted to say hi, and take it one thing at a time, until it's done, then on to the next...

[Gypsy]

Tracy! I am LOVING that shrine! And cut yourself some slack...you know you are just like the rest of us artists, some times I hide too! It just gets overwhelming! So take a nice long bath with soft music playing and wonderful candles and sit and soak your sadness away. It is a new day and an opportunity for another adventure.