hello strangers! this blog has been sadly abandoned and neglected like used coffee grinds on a sunday morning... and for that, i apologize... this blog used to keep me in tune with internet world and over time, sharing family updates as well as illustration accomplishments... however, the blogworld has been replaced with facebook... facebook isn't so bad but even that loses a sense of creativity... perfect for quickly updating curious greenbeanbaby followers and sharing instant moments with the family... but posts are merely a sentence or a photo... short and sweet? or short and unimaginative? and so with saying this, it is time to set goals, revise and edit, revamp old goals, and set some plans in motion to make 2011 a bit more creative with both writing and illustrating... even if no one reads [as i dare assume], i'm looking forward to working out my writing muscles... i hope to keep this blog up to date even if its only a brief post and to get back in tune with flickr and etsy as well...
so many things i miss... it's been a wonderful 2011 thus far but i've been extra tired... at times frustrated but mostly just tired.. i'm still trying to get a grasp of this freelancing at home business... it's lovely but incredibly challenging... every morning begins with getting the kids awake and ready for school.... breakfast, ironing clothes, telling them to eat and get dressed, cleaning up the litter, taking the dog out for a quick bathroom break, getting lunch for diego, coats on, and then bus stop... after the kids are gone it's time to make coffee, do dishes, vacuum, fix beds, clean cat hair off all the chairs with that tape thing, take a shower, fix my hair, dust the house, put laundry away, and take the dog out again... by the time i sit down to do art, i'm ready for a nap... but most times i try to just catch up on the internet for a moment while i FINALLY get my coffee... there are illustrations to do, emails to write, facebook to catch up [in the fan page], and reasearch... i haven't been lazy but financially, i had hoped to have been able to see the fruit of my rewards...
there are the days of volunteering at diego or isabella's school... or forgetting to go their first big event... and those days, i still come home to do the usual routine as stated before... then the dog needs to go out again and it's time to get diego from the bus stop...once diego is home, it's homework time and then cleaning again... i'll do dinner at times but thankfully, ramel has been helping out a ton... there is reading to do to both kids, more cleaning, relaxing or going back to art, spending a wee bit of time with the husband and presto, its 11:30pm and i'm dog tired... and this is the sort of day where there isn't an after-school event... i don't want to wake up at 7am to do the routine over again but this is what a mom who freelances does, right?... we can't even think about summer because then it will be back to late nights of illustrating and mornings of getting the kids ready for the day, finding something for us to do, cleaning the house, cleaning some more, and followed by cleaning... i'm not complaining, merely stating the facts of my life and the duties that require energy... illustrating requires a certain amount of energy to remain inspired and motivated... cleaning takes a ton of energy... kids take a ton of energy... so the question is, how can a mother juggle this all?! it's possible- definitely possible... but i'm wondering how long it will take for motherhood, illustrating, and freelancing to be in sync?!
so stay tuned... i hope to revise my behance portfolio, the official website, flickr, etsy, twitter, and blog... maybe a new design? or maybe different icons... either way, march is the month of "editing!" :)
note: the last image is one of the latest greenbeanbaby rubber stamps made possible by stamping bella...