Overdrive

Here we go again. My third to last class began on Tuesday, Consumer Behavior. It appears to be a fairly interesting topic since it has to do with understanding consumers and their buying behaviors - what drives them. A mix of sociology, psychology and a few other 'ologies'. Back to buggy girl mode. When I am in school and work and try to manage our art business I get a little buggy. Buggy cause I can never manage my time well enough to make quiet time for myself. I am on the countdown. I have 17.5 weeks of school left to complete my Masters. Then...I am sure I'll find something else that I must study.

Actually, getting a flavor for what life could be like without school this past six weeks has been very enlightening. When I don't have school to attend to - I have time to attend to gardening, hiking, playing, and creating art. It's rather liberating. So we'll see what new pursuits I'll have come the new year.

I talked with this lady Lisa about apprenticing and helping her in her glass studio. She blows glass - manipulates it and such to create vessels. I figure if I indulge myself in all the different methods of working with glass - the next thing you'll know - I'll be a glass guru. My workshop in glass fusing starts on my birthday (the 17th) - so I am pretty excited to see where this glass stuff will take me.

On top of learning about glass, work, school, art biz, momma & wife, we still need to get our little house in town sold. September I'll have a little time to say "whew" for about six weeks. It will give me just enough time to build up my holiday inventory for Beaux Arts, the Holiday Market, and hopefully POAC will do another Holiday Show to give me good reason to travel hairy roads to go home. Then come Dec. 4 - I can surrender to life without school and maybe think about a new addition to our family.