I had planned to spend Friday evening doing art, and I had also hoped to do a good walk.  I didn't fulfill my goals unfortunately, but I think I'm still working on myself to get serious about art making again.  Friday night was sort of a lost evening unfortunately.  Having a pet sometimes gets in the way of creating.  Those little furry creatures demand attention which, of course, they deserve.  But when one spends the day doing a myriad of errands and chores and looks forward to a quiet evening at the worktable, it would be nice to be able to do so.

So much for Friday evening.

I knew Saturday would be busy.  I would be going down to the studio with my friend Louise by 11 to set up for the workshop she planned to do Saturday afternoon--making silhouettes.  It went well, once we worked out the kinks.  There was only a very small group, though.  One of the regulars is in the hospital, another had other things she needed to do after a busy week helping with group workshops.  Hopefully next week will be better, when we do artist trading cards.

I had found out on Thursday that Amy at the studio wanted me to take charge of the Saturday workshops.  I should have asked if that included the morning kids' workshop.  I realized on Friday afternoon that that might be the case.  Oh dear.  Kids and I are not exactly friends.  When I arrived on Saturday morning, I asked Karen the Office Manager and she gave me the bad news:  yup.

So not only do I have to coordinate Saturday afternoon workshops, which I know I can handle, but also find kids' art and craft projects that can be accomplished in two hours or less.  Which is what I've been doing for the past couple of hours.  I feel more optimistic than I had. 

In the meantime, I had gotten an email from Etsy, one of its Etsy Success newsletters where trends were discussed.  I realized that I was missing an opportunity to potentially sell something: Valentine cards!  I've been getting into the habit of making more collage cards, which people have really liked receiving.  I had spent a good part of late November-early December making a set of 12 cards for special people which really went over very well, and I've resolved to make similar cards for sale during the winter holidays.  I've made a few other cards--a thank you card, cards for someone as part of a swap, et cetera.

I have made cards like this before, mostly notecards that I had printed professionally by MOO.  I have not made original, unique, cards for sale though.  And so that's what I did for most of this afternoon.  What I actually did was glue paper scraps to cards that I had bought from the Jerry's Artarama store in Providence.  Next step is to do the collage.

I'm feeling very optimistic that these will go well.  I want to finish them no later than the end of this week, scan them, and upload them next weekend.  That's the goal.  Let's hope I fulfill this one.