Weeeee're Back...Kind of...

Hello friends!
In 2024 I planned to make more blog posts and be more active in my personal practice. I suppose part of that became a reality in a way! Shortly after my last post, I was greeted with the most exciting news: I was pregnant! 9 long months with the biggest belly and most heartburn ever, I welcomed my little dude whom shall forever be Mr. Baby to the public. We share a birthday and a face (he looks shockingly exactly like little me) and now we also share every meal and nap. Needless to say, I spent 2025 very pregnant and then very tired from labor and raising Mr. Baby. We're almost at a year now and I cannot be happier (or sleepier).

10ish months in and I'm reflecting on what creativity looks like these days. Last year most of it was focused on nesting: I painted all of Mr. Baby's baby shower decorations, I painted a mural in Mr. Baby's room (both Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar themed), I showed a very vulnerable painting about my first pregnancy loss, I have my first playful felt sculpture on view as part of Lancaster Art Network's Arcana exhibit at Zoetropolis! (go check it out!), and I tried (and kind of failed) to participate in Inktober during some long sleepless nights. It's been good to keep the creative juices-maybe not flowing, trickling? But as Mr. Baby becomes more of a total person with a personality and interests, I'm excited to include him in my making AND figure out what my new normal is for making. I think some of it is also the recent couple of warm days reawakening my desire to be less of a hermit. 

Stage one of my creative thaw will be blogging again! I like sharing my thought processes and am not always up for the short form ways social media enforces so I think this space will be active again. Stage one and a half will also be more social posts that look more like a digital sketchbook of what I'm inspired by lately. I find that I don't share that enough and while my hands aren't always drawing, painting, or sculpting, I am always saving inspiration and I like when other creatives share those things so I'd like to give that a try. I miss old-Tumblr and Pinterest for this reason! BUT I think I can make it happen here and on IG in some way. 

Somethings I'm taking away from what I've learned in my "Year of No" and in my "Year of Gestation" is moving slow, being playful. and just starting however imperfectly. I share this so you all hold me accountable and help me embrace my silly more than ever! No pics to share this go around, but in the spirit of sharing what inspires me these days here is my parting Funspiration Station list: 

FUNSPIRATION STATION
This week I am inspired by: 

• Patchwork and literally everything Carly B makes
• The possibility of making these Arthur Pants as I have been bitten by the sewing and textile bug
• The color palette of this shirt I found on ThredUp
• gel pens that don't skip
• Process art and Hervé Tullet