Progress.

Bit by bit, babystep by babystep, I'm lifting out of some pretty heavy funk. I'm beginning to suspect a that certain online activity in my life has been draining my time, energy, and any creative ideas I might have had.
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Beginning to suspect? Okay... revise that:  I know for absolutely certain that moderating a chatroom is as demanding as any job on earth, and that it has been draining my time, energy, and creativity. Trouble is, the work I have in the "real world" - art and crafting - requires time, energy, and creativity to even happen.
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Solution: walk awayyyyyy from the screen. Buy a copy of "The Artist's Way" and do what it says. Leave the computers upstairs, and travel downstairs to the studio, where your creativity can take form and be ready to bring your joy into other people's lives. Show up for the Work.
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So...at the end of Week Three of the Artist's Way, I'm back in the studio and starting to make jewelry again. Ideas are starting to come in two's... soon three's, I hope. And there's still time to create a bunch of them before the season's first craft show!
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And I'm sleeping better. I'm feeling my old well of positivity filling up again. And there's where the magic lives. I re-discovered my stash of seed beads today. Little glittery Delicas, silvery Rocailles... beads I'd forgotten I had. I'm seeing them sprinkled on a felted-wool fairy, with glittery feathery wings.
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magic. i feels it nearby.