clogged

lately, i have been so overly inspired by things that i can't let any of it out - i have a creativity clog. anyone have some inspiration drain-o that i could use?

top ten ways to get a clogged creativity center:

1. look at just the first page of esty.com
2. log into flickr.com
3. join a flickr group
4. read any book
5. go to blurb.com
6. search for a blog on a hobby/craft/art style/artist you enjoy and follow every single link that they like...hours of inspiration constipation coming up!
7. search artists on youtube.com
8. have creative friends and talk about what they're into right now
9. look at magazines
10. check this guy out - he'll blow your mind! markryden.com

word association fun

this is one of my favorite things to do when i just can't seem to fall asleep.... i think of a word, any word, and then think of the next word that it reminds me of and keep going and going and going and going....till i fall asleep...more entertaining than counting sheep, less fattening than getting a midnight snack.

so, i'm bored at work so here goes....five minutes on the clock please....go

work
check
bills
money
green
sweater
lisa
grove
gnomes
painting
easel
school
the art building
dirty
wash
"warsh"
lana bond
lauren
mushrooms
bikes
lazy
me
home
cozy
candles
pumpkin pie
thanksgiving
family
dreams
betsy
pink
victoria's secret
scanty
small
mice
squeaky
eisley
cooking
dinner
hungry
grocery shopping
mondays
thursday night dinners
friends
moving
boxes
tape
sticky
honey
bees
jerry seinfeld
annoying
sniffles
kleenex
judy's desk
avoid at all cost
the plague
druids
chanting
ohm
thailand
"wats"
monkeys
zoo
hippos
hungry hungry hippos
childhood
popsicles
dripping
faucets
fixing our floor


i should have thought of more things i'm sure but thinking them and then typing them kind of slows you down...and i only wasted five minutes....2 hours to go....

better back this up....

figured i better back up my claims of greatness....i mean accomplishments since the tv left....so, in a very photoful blog post, here you go!

Here are the makings of a cupcake hat for eisley - i just have to add the frosting :)

Here are some little pieces i have started and some i've finished:

Here are some felt lovelies that i have made:



















Here is a piece of pottery i painted...double espresso cup and saucer with birds on a wire :)













Here are just a few of cupcakes....














Here is the wall with shelves - i think the color reminds me of nacho cheese from a ball park but i like it still.














and finally - here is my first purchase from Emily Martin's The Black Apple esty shop...
(please note the "cupcake peddler" print from my previous post - which now belongs to ME and will soon be added to our "gallery wall")

life after we booted the tv...

life without tv.............people ask me all the time how life is different/better/worse/possible without your tv - NOT just cable.........the whole tv unit. it's hard to say a complete answer. life is definitely different - no doubt about that. sometimes it is better and sometimes it is worse (but rarely - all the election stuff and the olympics were kind of sad to miss). but mostly it is more than possible and in our lives it was a necessity!

it used to be cute when eisley would yell "dowa dowa dowa dowa" when dora the explorer came on....but when she started to throw a fit if dora wasn't on any channel or it was time to turn off the tv, it was no longer cute. it was nice to be home a lot and watch all kinds of home shows and i get grand ideas of how to organize and transform my house into a home, but when i forgot to do the dishes and mold grew in tupperware containers in the fridge it was not great. it was nice to sit down with my hubby and veg-out before bed with a dumb mtv show, but when we forgot how to have a normal meaningful conversation about something other than what heidi and LC were fighting about this time, it was not nice.

i hated my life revolving around a tv schedule. "oh sorry we can't do anything on mondays because the new hills is on, and tuesdays are out 'cause this other show we don't really even like but we HAVE to watch comes on and wednesdays between 7-9.30 is out because ANTM is on and then we have to watch the new run's house, no not thursdays either, but maybe there's a 2 hours window on friday because it's the off season for....blah blah blah" rushing home to watch some show is not a good priority and i knew this then, but i wonder i stopped caring. but i care now and that's what matters. we might have a "boring" house now, but i don't care we're better off for it. we don't usually do things half way in the beeson house.....all or nothing...we cheat too much if there are loopholes.

so if you click here you'll see how my life was when i first started thinking about what it would be like without the boob tube. and below is a list of what i've done after kicking the tv to the curb:

in no particular order:

• read about a gazillion books.....ok, not really.....half a gazillion at least though


• gotten back into art and my creativity has spiked for the first time in about 4 years


• made new friends


• gone on loads more walks, hikes, and bike rides


• been still and present and not off in some other world


• caught up on household schtuff


• organized


• painted a wall and installed shelves on it


• enjoyed my sweet neighborhood to it's fullest


• explored new spots in my hometown


• played more outside with my boo boo


• learned to be mindful of the task at hand....still working on that one


• learned toooooo much about this coming election- we didn't get rid of internet for goodness sake - we can't be completely shut off from pop culture


• baked more..........a lot more


• read books together with my husband - we read aloud alllllll the harry potters to eachother :)

i'm sure there's more...but you get the idea...life is much much different without the tv!