Hi everyone! This is just a short post to share a recent video I made showing off some of my newest ACEO art trading card artworks (both those I make and sell and those I have collected from other artists!) I love the world of miniature art and hope others get into the hobby too! It is an affordable, space-saving way to collect and display original art! Lately I’ve really been into mixed media collage artwork, which I’m sure you can tell from the video:
I recently decided to start two new vlog series focusing on two of my favorite hobbies/obsessions. The first vlog series is called “Toy Talk” and will feature all kinds of collectible toys (mostly I collect toys based on my favorite characters, so will focus a lot on that). Here is an example of the toy series which features new Mario Bros. collectibles…
The second vlog series is entitled “Book Talk” and will feature reviews of books I have read or am currently reading. I will occasionally throw in a video about one of my own books, but mostly I plan to feature the work of other authors. For one of my first videos in this series, I featured the new book “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck” which is a companion book to the HBO documentary sharing the same name…
Lastly, I wanted to let everyone know that I also arranged playlists for my vlog videos on other subjects, that way it is easy for viewers to find the subjects they are interested in and just watch all those videos if they so desire. Besides “Toy Talk” & “Book Talk”, the other available playlists on my YouTube channel are broken into the following subjects: “My Asperger’s Syndrome Vlog“, “Art & Writing Vlog” and “News & Entertainment Vlog“.
My husband often jokes about how easily influenced I am. Like yesterday, I was sitting in the bathtub reading a book, when suddenly the author mentioned fresh-baked chocolate cookies. As soon as I drained the water from the tub, I headed to the kitchen to make a batch of no bakes. This is a repeating pattern in my life. A commercial comes on for Taco Bell? I want Mexican! Pizza Hut has a new pizza? I must have Italian! Ni Hao Kai-Lan is on? Chinese for dinner! And I want a cute little koala friend as well!
Besides the potential for making me chubby, this tendency to go with whatever catches my eye can sometimes be a danger to my career as well. How so? Because I forget what I’m really good at when something else inspires me or catches my eye. I have noticed this with my hobbies. I have gone through phases of jewelry-making, sewing, yoga, drawing, photography, playing various musical instruments, cooking, dancing and many other now forgotten obsessions. Not that any of these things are bad…they are all fun in their own way and can be educational.
My problem is I seem to get obsessed for a short period of time and then move on to another interest. Except for writing, I rarely ever stay with anything for any length of time. Plus, when I let all of these other things suck me in too far, I often neglect my writing, the one talent that I really want to cultivate.
My writing itself can be highly influenced as well. I know what my style is and what genres I really should stick with, but when I read a great work of art, it makes me want to recreate the magic. When I was reading Harry Potter, I wanted to write the next great fantasy series. When I used to read Nancy Drew and Sherlock Holmes, I wanted to write a mystery series. Mother Goose and Dr. Seuss make me want to rhyme, and Edgar Allan Poe makes me want to scare people. Reading manga makes me want to write a comic book (even if I can’t draw worth a crap). And in the meantime, while all of these internal monologues rage about what I could write, the projects that I should be working on languish.
Sometimes all this makes me wonder…is there a specific kind of ADD that only attacks writers or other creative types? Maybe I just need some Ritalin. Or some self-discipline. Or another cookie…I just saw another commercial 🙂
