Crafty, Of Course...Not!

I've decided Sundays are my days off from writing, unless I'm inspired or need to jot something down before I forget it. Everyone needs a day off...or two.

So on my day off from writing, I decided I needed to pursue another type of creative outlet and I thought crafts would be a good idea. We loaded up the baby, picked up my mom and all headed to Michael's. Riley was bored out of his mind, Maria was getting sleepy, and my mom wanted to get back home to finish cleaning, I on the other hand was in arts and crafts heaven. I decided I was going to make Maria's birthday Thank You cards, so I found the dollar bin, bought white ink, green envelopes, coordinating ribbon, and a pretty thank you stamp. As soon as the baby was asleep and Riley was busy playing Black ops I set up shop. I laid everything out to start making my cards, well suddenly I had met writer's block evil sister, crafter's block.

How was I going to make this work, how was I going to make all the elements join up to create something beautiful!? Well I decided to just jump in, (a tactic I often use in writing) I just started stamping and then I found my rhythm. I created 8 cards, all different but coordinating and it was so fun. I thought I had done a great job. Well that was at 11:30pm last night, today at 11:30am they don't look so great. They look so elementary, so preschool, so much so, I believe my 2 year old would have done a better job. So I've come to the conclusion that maybe I'm not as crafty as I thought, or maybe, just maybe I didn't have the right tools, yeah let's blame the tools, after all they were from the dollar bin!

I think I'm going to stick to writing for the time being, maybe I'm not great at it but that's what they have editors for right?

Hmmm, who edits your arts and crafts, the poor souls who receive them as gifts?  

Dreams a Brewing

Well my momentum is still up or is it still building, either way I'm back to writing today. Yesterday was my crazy epiphany day, as you can tell by my crazed blurb about pledging and changes. Today I'm a little more realistic, a little more calm, but still motivated to say the least. So today's goal is to brainstorm about topics to write about for my first book. You notice how I said "first" book, that's right people; I plan on writing more than one. Maybe I need to write a series of books on one topic or is that too Twilight?

Speaking of Twilight isn't Stephanie Meyer totally freaking lucky. She just dreamed up those books and now..., well you know the rest.

Okay back to brainstorming:

So I had this dream once about the world ending and everyone I loved being engulfed in this warm, welcoming, cozy ball of flames. Walking into the fire just felt right and it's almost like the fire grew hands and slowly guided me into it and willfully I went. I knew that everyone who mattered to me in this life was gone and that I should be with them and so I went and I didn't feel bad about it, I didn't feel like I was giving up or that I was maybe going to hell rather than heaven. I truly felt a sort of peace, or a weight being lifted. And I knew that everything would be okay because I would see everyone again, they would be right there waiting for me.

So now that you're all thoroughly freaked out because I dreamed this and because I may just be a little crazy, what do you think? Is this a good starting point, could this be something I could right about? Would people be interested or should I just not care what other people think and write it because I find it interesting?

Well that's my brainstorming session for today and I think I really made some headway.