It seems I have crafting ADD - there are so many things I want to work on or try, that I work for so long on something, lose focus, and move on to something else. I've moved from polymer clay, to making hairbows, to picking up some new watercolor paper blocks and even some nice tubes of artist paints so that I can revisit painting with watercolors, all in the last two months.  I blame the latest on receiving my new how-to book in the Dreamscapes series, Myth and Magic: Every time I look at her work it makes me want to pick up my brushes again and dust off my rusty skills. Ultimately I would like to finish the portrait of my daughter that I started way back in, gosh, has it been that long already - October! After that post I did get some painting started on it, but I was using student paints then and while I probably should use student grade paints for practice, I came to the conclusion that if I want that portrait to last, I better use artist grade paints. What I should *really* be doing with that painting is getting some artist grade paper too, and start over on it. Unfortunately I seem to have misplaced the original sketch I had of her on paper and tracing paper, so I'll have to keep looking for those before I consider starting over. I will just use the painting I started and consider that one to be practice. The paper it is on doesn't seem to hold up very well to lifting paint so I'll have to be cognizant of that and not overdo it lest it end up looking like garbage. And if I still can't find the original sketch after that, then I could probably just make a tracing of the first painting to transfer to the good paper. Going back to the other two crafts that got put on the back-burner - polymer clay, I will need to pick that up again sometime in the next couple of weeks, the Polymer Clay Smoosher's guild's challenge for this month is "Space", so I'll need to get something made for that. I have some glow in the dark clay I could use for that project. I just have to figure out what exactly I am going to make. And the hairbows - I'll still make those, too, when I can fit them in. I made up several for my daughter to wear, made a set for the daughter of a coworker, and just gave a set to one of my daughter's little friends for her birthday earlier today (I hope she likes them 😊 ). I still have several others that are in various stages of completion including some that are just in my head and I only got as far as cutting the ribbon lengths and heat sealing the ends. At some point I'll try to get some pictures done and maybe even post some up in my Artfire studio to try selling. If you noticed that "making jewelry" was nowhere in the list of things I've been dabbling in the last few months, a gold star for you. That activity has taken an extreme back seat in the bus for now. My jewelry muse went on vacation it would seem. Depending on what I come up with for the Space challenge, she may make a reappearance, but who knows. For now it's enough that the other three muses are having it out in my head over whose turn it is to inspire me. I think the watercolor muse has the others beat at the moment. So I'm off to do a little more painting before bed. 'Night.