I'm finding it so hard to make time for drawing and making..This makes me so sad. I think I need to do some serious re-jigging in my life to make room.. I need to plan in regular art and creative time..
Do any of you plan in creative time to your day/week? I'm imagining that i'll need to work on a few hours here and a few there as I just don't have a whole evening or day to spare theses days..I'd like to hear how other people with busy lives manage.
'Two for joy' 2012
I hope your all having a good weekend. I spent the day helping a friend search for fabric for her wedding dress, we were looking for tweed, linen and lace and found some lovely fabrics that may hopefully make a very unique, beautiful dress for my friends November wedding..Very exciting!
Speak soon folks ***
I find it hard too and have been thinking I should schedule it in as well! It seems odd to have to schedule creativity but life can get so crazy it's hard to make time otherwise. I work from home so try to plan out my days as if it were any other job, with a lunch break etc. It rarely goes to plan but I guess it's better than no plan! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful drawing Rebekah, I love the magpies. It's so hard to find time to do the things you love when you have a full time job, especially in the winter as dark and cold nights aren't good motivators. I'm an early riser, so I usually wake up around 6am and find time to knit or do something creative for an hour or so before I have to leave for work (I start at 10 so that helps). I try to use at least a few lunchbreaks a week to do things, take my laptop to blog or knitting to work on. In the evenings, I make sure I keep my knitting, sketchbook and banjo close to hand so when I'm relaxing everything I need is right next to me so it requires minimum effort to get going. x
ReplyDeleteI am by no means a professional like you but I do find it hard to have creative time too! I have two kids though so they need to come first. I tend to make my time when they are at school/nursery but then sometimes ideas just pop into my head and I tend to write them down or draw them out in what I call my book of madness! Quite often I look back and think what is that???
ReplyDeleteLove the magpies so much x
this is so lovely! it's so hard to fit creative time in, and for us creatives it's heartbreaking. but try not to worry too much, if i force it at times that are convienient i find i'm never happy with the work i do! the trouble i have is i'm always in the mood to do mega work at about 11pm and can keep going until 3am (i'm a serious night owl!) but then getting up for work at 7 am after 4 hours sleep is not good for me. so i spend an hour during my super-creative night time, then finish it when i get home from work the next day. i tend to find that works quite well :) you'll get there, and if you love it you'll find a little time here and there :D
ReplyDeleteSince the twins were born and life settled down a bit, I started getting up a bit earlier to do things, even if it's sitting with just a cup of tea and my notebook. Otherwise there's just no time in the day. This morning I got up and did some writing for an hour, it was lush!
ReplyDeletei am in love with this. swooning love x
ReplyDeleteso lovely darling x
ReplyDeleteHi Rebekah, I'm so with you about not being able to find the time for art. I'm taking an incredible on line art class and all I want to do is draw & paint! But, I too am having a hard time fitting it in. Have to think about this too. Hope you are doing well. Niki started a thread on the Coconut Etsy team site to try to keep the group together. Hope it works! I really enjoy everyone from the coconuts and would love to stay in contact with each other. Take care!
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