Amazing

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 what a little forward motion will do. 1 inch forward is the absolute truth and a real game changer. I have been in such a pit for a few months now. I have seriously considered just giving up on this art thing. I mean seriously. I really only hung in because it took too much to shut everything down. Then something this weekend just kind of kicked in. I sat at my computer on Friday or Saturday, I think it was Friday, and just starting making posts. Just started putting things out there again. For no reason. There was no plan. No intention. I just started posting. That little bit of movement caused some further movement. On Saturday I sat and cut out 12 ornaments. Then sat and put them all together. Saturday night I glued them all. Sunday morning I oiled them all. Took pictures of them all. Then sat last night updating my website for the first time in freaking months. Probably close to a year. Seriously don't know what happened. Could not tell you what changed, but something clearly did. Tonight after I worked out, I took some pieces outside to photograph. These are basic photographs, but they are a start. I did some simple edits so I have a clean photo of just the art. Next, I will go in and put some AI into it and get some scenes with the art in it. 


So, it's the next morning. After I wrote the above, I picked up my phone and started playing with PhotoRoom. It's an AI photo app on my phone that can do amazing things. Even the free version. 

Here is the photo I took of my Grand Canyon ornament: 


Running it through PhotoRoom I ended up with this: 

My Grand Canyon ornament at the Grand Canyon. What???? So yeah, I got into that and completely forgot to finish this post. 

I was wondering if the fact that I started using a journal/planner again made the difference? Seriously! I'm someone who can't keep everything in their head. I need to empty my head. Maybe my journal/planner is the thing that was really and truly holding me back. I made some phone calls yesterday that I have been putting off for weeks. I've started posting again. I'm feeling creative. Can it be just clearing those things out of my head and putting them on paper helped? I don't know for sure, but I'm going with it. I ordered a 16 month planner that should be here today - at least I hope so. It was supposed to be here yesterday but never left Phoenix. Ugh!!! So hopefully today. I am going to make a real effort to use it faithfully because if this is what happens when I write stuff down, I'm writing everything down!!!

In other news, I woke up yesterday hungry and all day my stomach did not feel right. I woke up this morning hungry again and had a half an English Muffin with some peanut butter. My stomach feels good now, let's see if it makes a difference during the day. Speaking of which, I need to log my food for yesterday and wake Hubby up. Okay, that's done. I need to record my food so I can see what is going on with my stomach. 

Okay, I think I'm done for now. This post took 12 hours to write, I think that long enough. Off to slay the day. 




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