I’ve been discovered?

I’m not a ’secret’ any longer. Perhaps you stumbled upon this blog by sheer accident or maybe you were looking for something and for some reason your quest to find it led you here. Regardless of how you’ve happened by, the important thing is that you’ve stayed long enough to read this far and that’s appreciated.

This little undertaking compared to so many others just bulging with all kinds of information, tidbits and witty preamble, is slim to say the least, for now. I don’t expect it to remain that way for very long and over the course of the next few weeks I do hope to populate it with some ‘finds’ that you may have an interest in.

I’m an artist/web designer/writer etc., and there is little that I will not try if I’m interested in it. That however is my downfall. Too many interests, not enough time and certainly never enough money to carry out everything NOW! I did find a fabulous Wholesale Bead supply site last evening though which by all indications appears to be a place I will be hunting through regularly. If you’re interested (although you may already know about it) check out Rings & Things. Incredible goodies and the page I’ve chosen to direct visitors to holds all kinds of projects to make. If you haven’t been to this site before and you’re like me and have a need for beads, bangles, wire and such but don’t have reasonably priced stores in your area or as in my case, stores that carry those things I am actually looking for, then you’ll love this place!

I’ll divulge just a few of the projects I have on the ’stove’ right now just in case anyone is interested…I’m currently working on a Gay Pride bracelet for my oldest daughter (not the rainbow Jump Ring type but one completed in the Kings Chain Mail style with 6 beads for the Rainbow. It’s actually turning out quite nice if I say so myself. Also there is a Geisha digital painting that isn’t quite started yet although I have the idea pretty firmly mapped out, a couple of FLAIR badges that I’ve been putting off for awhile now but I think it’s time I upped a few to Facebook again so they may be here very shortly and one project that I’ve had sitting in the corner of my upstairs family room – a lion and cub – although I’m not far enough along to have even considered ‘will that be graphite, colored pencil or acrylic sir’. Then of course, there is always a project or 500 that I have waiting around to be addressed but I’m sure no one wants to read through all that!

I’ve just finished taking a website I designed live and have been tweaking it and polishing the content up a bit and I still have two blogs to complete for others — I consider these endeavors my ‘Philanthropist’ contributions as both are small businesses whose dollars are better spent on promotion than on paying a web designer for an internet presence and that is where I come in. I’m enjoying myself while doing these and it’s for just that reason that I thought I should get back to doing my own blog too. Oddly enough, these projects have pushed me to be more persistent with myself … ‘gidder done’ mode, if you will.

So here it is — sort of. Hopefully there will be much more to see and become inspired from, over the next little while. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you’ll consider doing so again very soon.

Akaiya

A Hi-Def mind?

My oldest daughter shared a joke with me the other day that I thought was a very concise and fitting description of who I am. I can’t remember the Comedian who did the particular skit but a search I did came up with an equally ‘eloquent’ rendition here: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/ADHD .

This my friends, describes me! Thus, when my daughter told me about the skit, I knew that I had to adopt the ‘Hi-Def’ quip somewhere. I could easily slap it onto a ‘Hello – My name is..” sticker and smack it onto the middle of my forehead, but my family already knows who I am…and I don’t get out much so what’s the point!

I haven’t always been a ‘Hi-Def’er’ but then, maybe I have been but just didn’t know what to call it. I think I swung into that category about the same time that Hi-def TV’s hit the market…no, maybe a bit before that. I’m usually a step or two ahead of new fads, sometimes I am years ahead (Feng Shui comes to mind, I’ve been actively involved in that one since 1989 when there were all of 2 websites out here about it)…and most often by the time others are just learning about something, I’ve already been there, done that and am off to something entirely different. Obviously ADD/ADHD has been no different.

So, what you will find here will most likely be a mish-mash of interests…of which I have many. To the many who already know me, I’m certainly considered a wishy-washy, no sense of direction individual (actually I HAVE no sense of direction…East, West, North, South? Huh? Give me landmarks good man…landmarks!) Just in case you are wondering…no I can’t read a Map very well either…usually by the time someone expects me to tell them where such and such a place, street or building is…they’ve already passed it and have to find it on their own anyway.

But…back we go. This blog is probably going to be nothing more than one of my short viewed spans…but I have to say this, I work hard, or try to…in order to stay on track and get one thing done at a time….but I get bored! Quickly. So, the works that you will see here are ones that may have taken skill to complete artistically, but they’ve also taken far more skill to complete at all!

I wonder if ADD/HD increases as we age…becomes more prevalent? There I go … off on something else.

Enjoy (or try) and thanks for stopping by. Yes, actually I do write poetry too…really. I’ve even had some published. Seriously!   (Whoops, off track again..typical!)