It has been SO LONG since I have posted anything here :) Years in fact. The funny thing is that when you are a web developer for a living, the *last* thing you really want to do is work on your own website when you get home from work. So, yeah, uh, I let things slide here for a few years.

What I wanted to post is one of my latest creations (see above). I did about three of these around Valentine's Day (must have had hearts on the brain). I am taking an online class called Creative Together with Marisa Haedike and Sean Hogan. It has been like getting inspiration injections in the arm every week for the low, low price of $99 bucks! Among all the inspiration was the idea to try to be creative every day (okay, maybe every other day in my world) no matter what. This means sitting down to be creative even when you aren't inspired and don't have any grand ideas about what to create. Oh, and the other thing you have to do while doing this is to try to silence the inner critic as much as possible and just do what comes to you, no matter how weird or stupid or ...

This has been very interesting and fun. One night I painted the most ugly face I have ever painted and scared my boyfriend with it. One night I just drew circles over and over again on a piece of paper. And one day I got some tubes of paint out and literally squeezed paint out from the tube directly onto the canvas and got this heart. At first I was not very impressed and felt like I ruined good canvas, but since then it has kind of grown on me. It was very fun to make and the whole ritual of sitting down to be creative no matter what and carving out a space for it in my busy day has been wonderful and something I am treasuring, although I am a little rusty and feel like I am just getting the wheels greased again.

So there you have it, a blog post after two years :)