How did it come to be Monday already? The days are both slipping past faster than I can hold on to them while also managing to move as slow as molasses in winter. It is hard to believe that Teaghan has been at sleep away camp now for almost a week. Four more sleeps until she comes home!!! Having her gone has not been as difficult as some years; I have been kept busy with my jewelery work for Maarten. It has been wonderful being bit by the creative bug again. I go through these times when I just can not fathom stepping foot in my studio because my brain just seems to be in the off position. But then I go in there and amazing things start to happen!
What I am finding difficult this year is sleeping. It is as if my mind can not rest knowing that she is not in the house. It is the strangest thing and not something I am particularly enjoying. I love sleep! I love my bed! And both are strangers to me at the moment. Instead I am up thinking, thinking, thinking. And, to top it all off, I am not even thinking about her! I know that she is fine. I know that she is having a great time and loving every second of camp - well, except for the meatloaf :) Instead I am up until all hours of the night worrying about school starting soon and getting my class set up the way I want it, worrying about how I am going to teach the curriculum this year (as if I have not taught it for the previous 15 years!!!!), worrying about taking over the Grade 6 Health and Career Education from Raja - what was I thinking? Teach Grade 6? Help!!! - worrying about being able to teach the grade 11's at Byng to do altered books - I have never even had a conversation with a grade 11 student much less teach one (or 30!) - just worrying, worrying, worrying. I need to get into the school and do some prep work. It will make everything better. Of course, I am not really wanting to go in, to give up part of my summer to clean and organize, but I know that once I do I will feel better. Maybe I will devote tomorrow to that. Hmmm...
I met with Maarten yesterday to give him a number of pieces I did for the shop. He gave me the latest cheque for a necklace that sold last week. It really does fill me with such gratitude that other people are enjoying my work enough to want to buy it. Thank you to the creative souls who have purchased my work. Wear it with joy!
Today is a painting day in the studio. I am working on images that can be shrunk down to incorporate into my jewelery. The artists crawl on Gabriola is coming up in just 2 short months (but Maarten will be back in Vancouver in about 4 weeks to pick up from me) and I am trying to have some pieces done that can be incorporated into Maarten's exhibit of his latest painting series entitled Murder of Crows...and Other Crimes. If you have never checked out Maarten's work go here. It is well worth the look! And, on that note, it is off to studio I go. Hi ho, hi ho, it is off to create I go!!! LOl :)


