Reflections

This past year was a blur all the way around; job changes, impossible deadlines for contracted work, medium changes, busy family of five, family relocation which also meant a business move as well.  We knew it was gonna be a crazy one. Most of it we planned well in advance.  While the latter half of the year we spent getting acquainted with our new surroundings and settling into a new routine with busy daughters and their activities.  There was not as much time for creating within my new studio as I had hoped but I did find areas to share my abilities in new communities I found around me.  The end of the year was met with a big sigh and a sense of accomplishment.  We Made It!
The first of this year I had the opportunity to spend with my Mom in her home in Florida with some quiet.  Time to think of things I still needed to finish from the past year and focus on ideas and lists of goals I want to put before me for the new year.  It looks as though it is going to be yet another busy year.  I don't know that I would know how to deal with things any other way, really.  I have my goals and wish lists and I fully support my girls and husband in their wishes and activities as well which only makes for a very full calender.
I project it is going to be a different kind of year though.  I am going to do more writing I think, more pondering upon the pages.  I am going to write notes and create as I go, but I don't intend to be "open for business" for much of this year.  Maybe the entire year.  For those of you who are always interested in my work and where it is available I will have to be contacted directly.  But not with commissions and requests please.  I really want to spend this year diving into my own... Sculptures that I have only been dreaming of, pottery designs that express something just a bit different, fabric and fiber arts that are started from scratch with blank slates that are hand dyed and painted before they are turned into something else entirely.  I want to spend this year in full experiment with my work and with myself and see just what flows forth.
Stay tuned for posted tidbits to let you know of the fun, the not so fun and any progresses.  Happy New Year! -Regi

Dream Safe

  I was always safe, dreaming about the artistic future I wanted to have.  A little studio and shoppe of my own. Space in which I could devote to all my creative ventures.  A sewing room where I could surround myself with lush fabrics and bright colors in which to build bags and quilts.  A mud room for clay work including a wheel and slab table,  kilns for all the finishing and of course time. Time to work, play, create and build a place people want to visit. A place people come to seek unique gifts for family and friends.  A haven for some who want to create along side me.  A place to play into the person I want to be.  The dream is grand to say the least.
  I stand looking at packing boxes.  Packing up all the notes I have made over all the years of what type of kilns, the sewing machine I'd love to own, and even the types of dessert I would serve up during our late evenings.  The details of the dreams can be overwhelming.  Now, I am here on the threshold, packing up to move that much closer to this dream.  I have chosen the spot in the mountains where I would like nothing more than to build this dream and put it out in reality and we are headed directly there.  A new town, a different home, the girls growing into their own.  In a matter of a few short months I will have to face me. Even my youngest will be headed off to school this year ready to take the world by storm.  My time to build and work on such dreams I have noted for all these years will be free to formulate from the pages of the notebooks into the present.  I will have run out and exhausted all excuses to hold back and put it off just one more year and stay safe within the dream of it all.
 I move each day closer, and I note, it does not feel as safe anymore; outside the dream.   -Regi

Looking Forward

We knew when we came back to this area that this would be a temporary transition.  We made that clear from the start.  We had some family to catch up with and some things to finish before we moved again but we knew that we would not be planting ourselves here for any great length of time.   One of the reasons that we have not ventured into a shop or store front while being here.  We were in wait, but now that time has come.  Long hard hours of thought and prayer have gone into finding our newest adventure setting.  With all things considered, Johnson City, Tn is our choice in what we will call home next.  This move will bring a whole new opening to our timeline.  Hoping to settle for some time, build new business, and get the kids through school nestled in the mountains of Tn.  We project our move to be in June and then the rooting will begin and there will be a whole new life for us and A Peac-A Work.