Well, it was pretty smooth getting from point A to point B with this yoga bag. I’m excited to try other color combinations & a little embellishment here & there in the future. Not exactly sure where this one’s home will be, but stay alert… I’ll tell you when I know.

Second yoga bag is half done. I’ll have it available for sale either on etsy or at subdivision soon.

8 new wrist cuffs available now at etsy.

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Thank you, NaBloPoMo for mucking up the blogosphere with more irrelevant, blogging-for-the-sake-of-blogging posts than usual. And why exactly do we need new posts every day of November? Le blogosphere does not have a shortage of (relevant or irrelevant) posts, so it’s not like, say, writing a letter every day of the month so you can remark upon what it used to be like “back then.” No… blogs are now & not in short supply. The only hope I have is that by purging oneself of posts for 30 days, maybe the toxins will float away & the December posts will be amazing, concentrated, intelligent writing the likes of which haven’t been seen since Paris in the 20’s. I happen to know that that’s mere fantasy, for if it were true, this here post would be pure gold, due to the purging of my thoughts since my last post on October 4th. Oh well.

(Oh, and one more piece of advice. I wouldn’t recommend sounding out the “word” NaBloPoMo for the fun of it. At first it’s a nice little word game solitaire but soon you’ll find your brain intoning it in the little crevices between thoughts. Before you know it, you’ll hear it in your head and just when you assume you’ll have another normal thought you’ll just think, NaBloPoMo and then you’ll kind of see the word floating in front of you like a screen saver and you’ll hear it again until you have to physically shake it off. Not good for the blogosphere or the head are you, National Blog Posting Month.)

What else have I been doing besides crafting in my head a bitchy blog post about blog posting? Mostly work at the wine store, but also some studio time & a lot of designing. I’m kind of a fuck up in that I have pretty low stock, a low amount of supplies and three projects in the design stage even though I’m 9 days from the biggest buying season of the year. What better thing to shoot than your own foot, I ask you? So I am currently looking for twenty dollar bills on the street to help me pay for some lining and then I’ll be set to sell plenty of interesting accessories sometime in mid January after everyone has bought all they could buy and put their wallets away until April.

I just finished the yoga bag and I’m just about ready to bring the new pieces from the design world into the real world. I’m probably going to do a line of mini-v.5 bags and more Cordura c2 bags.

As frustrating as it can be to, you know, come up with ideas, make channels for those ideas to get from skull to reality and then actually produce something you can call art, all the little things in between those steps form their own little networks of annoyance. I mean really… shouldn’t we earn some sort of art credit by simply pursuing an idea long enough to bring it to real life? The answer apparently, from the dean of student relations is an emphatic ‘no’. Art rarely ever gets easier… sometimes, occasionally it gets less difficult, but it never gets easier.

All of this comes from the fact that I’ve had lots of ideas lately for projects. Since I’ve made enough bags to sustain a small rush of sales (go ahead, challenge that assumption!), I’ve thought about working on other accessories. So I’ve been designing stuff, drawing it out, thinking about these things all the time even though I haven’t had much opportunity to get into my studio lately. I was so excited to get even a couple hours to get cracking on these projects and when I did get the chance, I was totally immobilized. It was that stupid combination of having too much pressure put on the time, not having enough time and not having been able to be in there at all the past week. Again, Art Dean, can’t any of those hours of thinking & designing count towards my actual studio time? Why is the entire enterprise such a fragile thing? And then he goes off on some blah-blah-blah about character building or something.

So… all this is to say that, as easy as it is to ignore, especially here in NY, rhythm is one of the most important ways of shaping a life. I should be focusing more energy on getting my schedule to fit my waves of productivity rather than saving up productivity for two hours of studio time. That means that in the near future, somewhere on this blog there will be a great post about the balance of productivity & inspiration that will be powerful & insightful. Maybe I should start writing a draft right now.