Searching for a symbol

I am searching for a meaningful symbol to put on a baseball cap.  I don't want ti to be too difficult to make and at the same time have a appeal to me.  Not an easy task.  I will have to look up and dig a little bit deeper.  I think I will browse images in books.  I don't know if I will go for a mythological design or something else totally.  Time to think about it.  I hesitate between mythology and prehistory.  I leave some room for an inspiring image.

I like to have meaning in my design.  I like when someone feel the same way when seeing what I have done.  It reassure me in thinking that we have all something in common, a way to communicate, not just with the written words.  It gives a nice feeling when there is that sort of connection,  For once, I feel that I have a contact with  humanity.

When I feel stuck, as of now, I like to look around me.  It is when my eyes are open that I am most likely find what I am searching for.  Well, it served me well in the past.  I hope it will serve me right now too.  So, I will look around me, in various books and let my mind work.  Maybe it will hit me like an inspirational bright brick of a idea.  The only thing that I like less is that the whole process may take days to concretize.  Maybe I could research on how to compress the process and get more efficient with the process...

Not a green thumb

I am not a green thumb.  Sadly, I am so bad that I can kill a cactus.  I think that my lack in this area is linked with a lack of knowledge.  I don't know much about growing plants and other gardening products.  My main strong ability is to follow orders.  I am good to watering plants when I am ordered to.  Otherwise, I am not a good gardening foreman.  I am, at best, a field worker when it comes to makes things grow.

It is a bit of a shame.  If I wasn't so unknowledgeable, I would be tempted to grow some fine herbs and maybe some tomatoes.  It is something that is getting popular right now.  I am sure I would be able to find knowledeable people in this field nearby.  I wonder if it would be enough to keep me in the right track.  I also have to admit that I would have to infuse myself with a bit more interest to get into this track.

So, I have to stand aside.  I have to look at people who have a green thumb.  I have to let them grow useful and beautiful gardens and fine herbs.  I don't think it is a bad thing to admire those people from afar.  Not everyone have to be efficient in every area of like.  My situation may change one day.  Right now, I just feel about the mystery of growing plants.

Yes, I am a Jack of all Trade

I admit that I like to learn new crafts.  I learned many new crafts and techniques in the last few years.  Pretty happy about it. I do have some periods, after learning about a new craft, to be immersed into it.  It is as if I pass some times to master that new learning.  It is fun learning new things.

On rhw orhwe hand, I feel a little bit burned out.  I get intesrested into something, learn about it, get all the materials, practice a lot and after that, I pass to the next new fancy of mine.  It is as if I am searching for a durable passion for myself and that I haven't found it yet.  Am I asking for too much?  Will it all go into a mix media mash up?  I now wonder if I need variety for creativity.

What motivate me to go on with all this creativity hopping?  I feel like a bee going on from flower to flower, to taste each flower's nectar and to find if one taste better than the other.  The only thing: I find that each flower taste equally the same, no cutting edge on that.  So, do I have to mix all into something unique?  As I progress, I feel at a crossroad.  I need to see what I can do, the road that I have to choose, to put the knowledge and experience into the real world.

It's been a while -- Candle making

It's been a while that I haven't done some candles.  I start to miss making those with sheet of bee wax.  It is quickly done.  It is not like the ones done with heating the more usual wax.  I am ready to have some fun with sheet of bee wax.  I wonder if I will find then easily.  Last time I had been in various craft stores, I haven't seen them.  So, I wonder if the interest is still there.

I haven't returned to the other type of wax.  I am not ready to return to that.  I had a period where I wanted to do my own candles that way, heating it to form pillars mainly.  Now, I am satisfied with those bought online like dark candles (http://darkcandles.com/).  I also like their wax melts.  I never had done wax melts.  I guess the process is similar to candle making.  I don't know if the wax is different because it is a melting one.  I guess I will have to ask the question if I meet an expert on the subject.

I think I will be making candles for people around me.  I am not really seriously into that, not yet.  I have other craft that are drawing more my attention right now.  I learned and got equiped more out of curiosity.  Right now, I am not really serious about it and not many people had asked me to do candles.  Not really an help to get more into it.  Maybe it is a question of cycle.  Candle making is not in sinc with other crafts...

The unexpected

I feel I live on the edge.  There is a few surprised turn of event.  It is good but I feel there is time where I have to turn on a 10 cents.  There is a lot of unexpected in my life right now.  I have the luck to be able to answer to the unexpected.  Nothing new in that area, I got lot of practice over time.  It can be annoying sometimes, in rare occasion.  Right now, it suit me pretty well.  Strangely, it is fuelling my period of inspiration.

The unexpected had benn of great help lately.  Right now, I am on a story and the unexpected helped me solve a scene.  Now, I can go a little bit further in polishing the storyline.  I am very happy about it.  It also push me in realizing a few projects in the time I have left.  It is a great motivation.  I hope it will go on a little bit more because I start to like that kind of experience.

Now, it is time to sit down and have a period of time dedicated to quality creation...  It is fun to have such effect from the unexpected.

Hatch Hook kit

I made a few puchases in a craft store.  I rediscovered the hatch hook.  It was something I learned as a child.  I had redicovered it a few years ago but it didn't last long.  I felt that the kit I found was for beginner.  I was ready to go further on once loosing my rustyness.

Now, I am ready to return to this craft a bit more seriously.  I think to start with this kit: https://www.amazon.ca/Spinrite-Wonderart-Latch-Hook-12-Inch/dp/B00DTV0W7S/ref=pd_sim_201_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=61VuO6ZAUoL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=12W6FSCTERE2EYK8E9CC
It is an cute little owl.  It will be a gift.  From there, I want to go a step forward.  I don't know what I will do next but it will be one that is more complex.  I want to evaluate if I can do more intricate ones.

I don't know why this kind of craft comes back to interest me.  I start to wonder if it is not for their therapeutic mind changing mood.  It soothe me perfectly and they change my mind.  It is the kind of craft that I never forgot.  I still remember what to do to achieved the end result.  Maybe it made a deep impression in my mind.  I had been shown macrame but I forgot everything about it.  Now, I am relearning to do macrame.  But I still remember how to do the hatch hook.  My mind is really strange sometimes.  I almost feel that my mind is a stranger sometimes.  I won't complain.  I am ready to return to some old craft.  I am ready to do it without hesitation.

Rustic table

I think I should go into a decor or furniture store more often.  I have found a beautiful table in a furniture store.  I find it a little bit rustic.  There is a rought look to it.  I took two chairs with it that are in the same line of thoughts.  There is also a bench that complete the set.  I didn't expected to buy this set.  I guess I had been light struck as I saw this set.  There was two other chairs with the set but I didn't took them.  They were different and I didn't like them.

There was many piece of furniture that I bought online.  I don't regret doing them.  I guess that there is good in both online and in store.  Right now, I just find that going in store can be a luxury.  I don't always have the time to go in store.  Of course, now, I think that if I come close to a furniture store during some shopping, it will be more probable that I will enter, even if it is just for ideas.

Now, I may look if there is some items that are shaped like an owl.  I do have a idea in my head...