A CASE for the Mojoless & a dangerous discovery

You may not believe it, looking at the above card but I've been feeling the absence of my creative mojo over the last few days. Everytime I sit in my craft room, a sudden sense of overwhelm happens and creatively it sends me brain into shutdown. It isn't the first time I've felt like this either. With me, it's feast or famine. I either have heaps of inspiration or nothing. And apparently this is not unique to me. More on that in a minute.

Before I run away with myself, I'll explain the card. Having lost my motivation, I headed over to the CASE study challenge. All I had to do was copy someone else's card. I even picked out papers from one paper pad collection. No thought required. However, even when CASEing the card, I have found that my finished result looks quite different and to has my own take on it.

Now, I know that life has a beautiful way of pointing you in the right direction and that coincidences can suddenly appear. And just as I was in a creative ebb, a book came my way which explained it. It's called The Artist Unique by Carmen Torbus (Amazon link here). There's a passage in it which refers to the Seasons of Your Creativity. "There will be times when we're on fire with inspiration and making lots of art. And there will be other times when we're moving more slowly, feeling less inspired and not creating much." It goes on to say "I realised that these down periods are just part of a cycle, just like seasons".

Apparently it's okay to have these creative winters. It's a time to go out and refill the creative well. It was reassuring to read someone else recount exactly what happens to me. And all of a sudden, I relaxed. This week, is my lull. My winter. I've accepted it. Once I let it happen, inspiration will strike and I'll be churning stuff out again lol.

So what's the dangerous discovery as mentioned in the title? I have a Kindle. I love it!!! In seconds, I can see a book I want & be reading it. Until yesterday, I believed that because the Kindle was greyscale, that buying digital versions of art books was out of the question. I needed to see the colour pages. And what I've learnt is that now I can. On my Mac. There's a free app which means you can read Kindle books on a computer. And the digital versions of the arty books I love, are in colour. That's how I bought the above mentioned tome. And there's a whole heap of them I can buy and read at anytime, if I so choose. The temptation to just go crazy, is sooooo strong. My finger keeps twitching on the Buy button. I have very little self control and the ease of the One Click isn't helping lol.

So if you see in the news that Amazon's profits have recently soared, you'll know why.

Enjoy your weekends everyone. Crafting or not, go with the flow & relax :) Px