Must Make ART!

I've been wanting to set up a website for a couple of years now. I even got photos together, and built one and never uploaded it because it wasn't complete in my mind, and I couldn't figure out how to do the fade in and out thing. But I stumbled upon this site one day looking up an artist's work I like, LK Ludwig, and only 3/4s of a year later,...here I am doing it myself. Here, I get to say something about my work. Maybe people will read about the process. Or they will get it that I need to make art!!! Some people exercise, some have babies, and I love to make things I've seen and been insired by. I like it better than buying stuff, well, except for art supplies. Each project leads me to the next thing I want to learn about. Sometimes I take a class. Sometimes I experiment without supervision. I like classes because I get together with like minded people and we inspire each other. Otherwise, I usually work alone. I like to work in the quiet of my studios, as I am fortunate to have two separate places I can work. There is a little separate house in my yard where I have set up a ceramic workshop, with a wheel, slabroller, 7 cu. ft. electic kiln and a sink. In the basement of my house, just 30 yards away, is a big room where I have my computer with scanner, jewelry workshop and photography and paper arts area. I go from idea to idea and it is a way I am making art almost every day, and don't have to waste days inactive unless someone in my family gets sick, and I have to be the nurse. If I am stumped or burned out in my ceramic work I go work on jewelry, the computer or bookbinding. I have a huge collection of rubber stamps I like to use for texture in making Precious Metal Clay charms. I like to make bracelets because I love to wear them. I enjoy making my own jewelry components and make one of a kind pieces that I sell in my yearly art show, and just before Christmas at our neighborhood Christmas boutique. I'm not famous, but I am known in my community as an artist and people call me and order jewelry and ceramics and come to my basement workshop and ooh and aah about my work. I don't have a lot of pressure and do have the luxury of being able to drop what I'm doing and follow an idea. Here is a collage I made.