Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Creative love.

I have been going a little web crazy lately. There are so many amazing blogs and websites out there by all these wonderfully creative women (have not found a man blog yet, except the Sartorialist). It has been so inspiring and uplifting to see all this beautifull stuff. Most of all, I think, it makes me happy to realise that these are real people being (seemingly) successfull at making creativity an important part of their lives.
I am so curious to know more about their private life: how do they support themselves? Do they have wealthy families? Did they have connections in the creative world growing-up? How does their relationship model work? Do their partners support them financially? Do they love, about them, that they are creative?
I've also noticed that they are all engaged or married (and having children). They all seem so very much in love. They just look so happy.

These dreamy blogs have really been cheering me up, and inspiring me to pursue creative projects.

Jonathan and I have been going through a bit of a rough patch, lately. He is working extra hard, and so have I. We have kind of been a bit more distant, and impatient with each other. I am planning on making it all better during my reading week: I will clean, cook, and make time for us taht is adapted to his heavy schedule.

I've also managed to include an arts and crafts project into my romance recovery plan. I am going to make him a Valentine's day garland.

I am not too sure what it will look like yet, but the idea was inspired by this photo:



And I have started making a few things for it:








I'm really excited to make it. It was so much fun to sew those little frankensteinlike hearts. I want to add special photos of things we want in the future, and memories. I want to make it so he sees I have been thinking about us even though we have both been really busy, and that I still love him very much. I really want to keep the dreams we have alive. I figure this is one very small way to do it.
...I hope he won't just find it cheesy.

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