Trisha Findlay
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Gallery
    • Stitched Art
  • Good Morning
  • Contact

My Blog

2017

11/2/2017

 
Do you have any 2017 plans?  Mine have been percolating and forming as I have been stitching and spending time over the last month or so, until finally I have a list.

I have an overall goal to lose some weight.  I am sick of people telling me to go for walks, to exercise and whatever; my goal is to lose some weight. I am not going to talk about walking, or going to the gym for now. I may choose to do these things but they are not on my radar.  The reason - I have two wardrobes and quite a few boxes of clothes and many of them are too small for me.  I have been storing them for quite some time and if they don't fit by the end of the year I shall throw them out.  Personally I would rather have the choice of throwing them out because I don't like them.  Ha, true confessions.  And no more clothes buying. I actually have more clothes than I can wear.  Just for a year.  I think maybe I could buy socks - I love fancy and coloured socks.

I also know that I should be walking and all that stuff, but my plan for 2017 also involves giving up on should.

At the moment my exhibition which opens on 1 March in Carterton at Heart of Arts is occupying a lot of my time and thought processes.
Picture
This afternoon I spent some time marking out a metre on my design board so I could look at the spacing for these strips.  I have decided that four to a metre is a good number.
Right that is three plans.

We are planning on going to England around April, mainly for Steve to sort out some family stuff in London. Oh dear, how does that fit with the clothes plan - maybe scarves and socks.  I am sure just London socks would be cool.  

And then when we come back I will have my studio directly in my line of sight.
Picture
No more piles everywhere, no more half finished projects lying around and a regularly vacuumed floor.  A place for everything.  And as part of that I am going to rationalise my books.  I am going to keep books on artists that I love, catalogues from exhibitions, and  theory books that I love.

​Right that's two more plans.

OK,  I have 5 plans for the year.  I have them spaced out and none of them involves changing the world in one single bound.  Woohoo.  Usually when I make a plan, I plan to change the world in that single bound and end up tripped up or worse.  This is the first time I have planned sensibly and gently.  I am developing a new philosophy of talking quietly and gently to myself.

What are your plans?  How do you get there?  I am thinking there is a real culture in New Zealand of "kicking
​yourself in the butt"  when times get difficult, of saying "get up and get on with it" and I don't think it is good.
Cath S link
11/2/2017 05:53:28 pm

Good plans, love that you're ditching should. My plan is to lose the last 16 or so kg, start painting again and be happy.

Trisha link
11/2/2017 08:17:57 pm

You are doing so well. I am loving seeing your daily inspirations. Should is sometimes hard to deal with.

Wendy link
11/2/2017 08:44:19 pm

There's nothing like being ambitious with goals as long as being gentle with yourself is part of it so I wish you all the encouragement and fortitude you might need I've got a few too and one is paring down excess (a few kilos too) . . . not easy but I've started.


Comments are closed.
     "I paint flowers so they do not die."  Frida Kahlo

    Archives

    November 2019
    October 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016

    Categories

    All
    Being An Artist
    Completed Art Work
    Exhibitions
    Goals And Intentions
    Inspiration / Sketchbooks
    News
    Studio


    Some links to follow:

    Fibre Arts Australia

    Conversations with the Makers

    ​
    Debbie Lyddon

    Dionne Swift

    ​Fibre Arts NZ
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Gallery
    • Stitched Art
  • Good Morning
  • Contact