Her Eyes Shone Like Salted Raisins
I didn't do my blog homework and I have 226 wonderful excuses as to why.
Welcome to The Nibbler by me, Jill Myer, a bi-weekly brief focusing on art, inspiration, creativity, snacks, and joy.
Good morning, Nibblers!
Happy Tuesday!
I hope you are all surviving and thriving during the most recent daylight savings time, situation.
Time change always throws me off.
Thankfully, the “fall-back” version of the time change seems to be less of a daggers-to-the-eyeballs condition than “springing forward.”
And by the way, if anyone from the Daylight Savings Time Department of Pain and Consufsion is reading this - no one is “springing” forward.
We are crawling from our beds the way a zombie crawls from a grave. Cold, bedraggled, eyes crusted shut, trying to remember how walking works.
It’s been an intense two weeks since we last “spoke.”
I don’t have a blog post or even a vlog for you this week, mostly because I haven’t made much of the art that you are here to see, nor have I had the bandwidth for any of the deep and probing inner thoughts I’m so fond of sharing.
I did spin this beautiful batt of wool, and I’m currently daydreaming and browsing patterns for the sweater it will be one day.
So why were the last two weeks so intense that I couldn’t paint or write a blog, but I could spin three skeins of *wool??!
Well.
I got a job.
I will tell you more about it once I get more settled, but know that it’s in the arts, which is lovely. I will be working among other artists who are unique, interesting, delightful people.
At the end of the day, the pressure of making my entire living as an artist, while a dream come true, was soaking the hemoglobin out of my sinew, and my eyeballs were beginning to feel like salted raisins.
You know, the ones at the bottom of a bag of trail mix, in which salt, chunks of peanuts, and pieces of M&M shells are stuck to them, and six people have already touched them - those raisins.
I will do a blog post next week on my experience and what I’ll do differently next time for the artists out there looking to make the leap.
*spinning wool is a very low-energy, low-thought, meditative activity that is best for when one’s brain is on the verge of becoming marmalade.
ON THE BLOG / VLOG
If you didn’t read the blog from the last newsletter, I highly recommend it! I wrote it so good!
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MY FAVORITE SNACK
Sourdough Bread!
I am still 100% stuck on sourdough.
I’ve made multiple loaves at this point and have even waded into seasoned croutons and recipes to use up the starter discard.
I even bought a fancy razor blade holder for cutting the patterns into the dough from the kitchen shop here in town that is so expensive only tourists can afford to shop there.
-It’s called self-care.
And, just in case you were wondering - there’s an entire Pinterest subsection of sourdough bread patterns. I’ve spent more than my fair share of time “pinning,”
I used a culture from Culturesforhealth.com and I watched these videos by professional baker Jennifer Latham at least 42,000 times each.
TODAY I LEARNED
I found this book utterly fascinating.
I can’t recommend it enough.
I listened to it via audiobook, and the narrator was wonderful! Five stars for the content and the narration.
SHOP
I’ve added these fun little mini mushroom cards to my shop! The bundle comes with six mini-cards and six kraft brown mini-envelopes (3x3 inches)
HAPPY TUESDAY!
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Jill
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