{"id":70,"date":"2011-03-31T17:51:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therewaseden.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2013-10-05T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T19:49:41","slug":"studio-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therewaseden.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Studio Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>One of the biggest challenges I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve faced since I began making jewelry was finding the time and space to work. In a house occupied by nine people, two of them my children, an empty surface and a free hour rarely coincide. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll admit, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been hard for me to prioritize my own personal endeavor over tending to my kids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 whims or doing things together as a family.<\/p>\n

Something about the arrival of spring, however, gave me the motivation to clear out a space in my room and make myself a tiny little studio. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just a desk surface, a drawer, and a freakishly organized cork board, but it suits all my needs. And once I had a studio, I was inspired by other artist friends to give myself a Studio Night: one night a week that I would devote to creating new work.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Last night was my first try at it. I worked for about four hours, with only a short break to eat and determine that Modern Family was a re-run. At 9:30, I made myself stop in mid-project, which was also a first. Most of the pieces I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done have been completed in one sitting, whether that sitting was thirty minutes or six hours, because I never really knew when I could get back to it. Promising myself that I will come back to it in a week makes it easier to leave things unfinished, and also gives me more time to visualize what I want the finished piece to be. There are a lot of designs I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve put off doing because they were too time-consuming, but now I anticipate giving part of my weekly time over to making progress on those longer-term projects.<\/p>\n

Of course, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got other plans made for next Wednesday night, and probably Thursday, and \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 okay, I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite worked this whole Studio Night thing out yet. But I am committed to the idea, and even if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a set day and time, just knowing I have a space waiting for me makes it easier to wait until the opportunity arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest challenges I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve faced since I began making jewelry was finding the time and space to work. In a house occupied by nine people, two of them my children, an empty surface and a free hour rarely coincide. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll admit, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been hard for me to prioritize my own personal endeavor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therewaseden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therewaseden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therewaseden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therewaseden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therewaseden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therewaseden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therewaseden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therewaseden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therewaseden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}