Empty-Bucket Days & Flood-Filled Nights

I don't usually like to blog about things that I'm selling.  I just feel odd about it.  But for the sake of showing how my silly creative process works, I thought I'd share a couple new braclets that I worked on.  I don't tpically do jewelry (Have I mentioned that I'm somewhat bad with the words "new" and "change"?) but this was one of those rare inspired moments.  I just had to give it a whirl. 

Do you have days where there are floods of ideas and then days that you can't find a drop of inspiration in the bucket?  Normally, I have empty-bucket days and flood-filled nights.  Or at least they seem like great ideas in the middle of the night but by sunrise that inspired project usually fades (Mr. Blessing loves it when I wake him upat 1:30 a.m. to run a new idea by him - not).  So this was an actual, wide-awake, middle of the day idea.   

And when that rare moment strikes, my compulsive side takes over - I feel like I have to drop everything and work swiftly lest the idea takes wings and is gone forever.  Of course, I didn't have the supplies laying around that I needed so I took to the streets to find what I had pictured in my mind.  Four stores later, a day light project was born.  And although I don't do jewelry, I figure if the rapper Vanilla Ice can have a show on

the DIY Network (seriously, he was on Rachel Ray today - WHAT has come over the world), I should definitely try new things!

Now I have some ideas about how I want to change our downstairs sleeping porch.  Paint treatments, lots of old doors, burlap, ruffles, a whole load of lace and old ceiling tins.  Mr. Blessing isn't sure about this idea of mine but I told him that I'm pretty sure it'll turn out ok because I thunk it up during the day!