I have been fatally distracted by tumblr and also website-building, but EVEN MORE EXCITING is my other fatal distraction, which is that I joined up with a co-op, and we're opening a store.

The co-op is the Portland Artisans' Co-op Team, and our store (fingers crossed for an April 1 opening) is Artistic Portland.  I've spent a great deal of time trying to build the website & manage the Facebook and convince people to donate to our IndieGogo.

I feel like I lost touch with this website when I lost touch with my art -- but we've not reconnected here like I have in my studio.  The last few days I've been trying to find the ease of production that I had in college.  How was it that I filled four sketchbooks in a year, kept up with all these things?  How was it that I wrote so much and so easily?

I think that "growing up" has instilled such a powerful fear in me -- a fear of failure, many kinds of failure.  But I am trying to find the right feeling again, and I am working whether or not the feeling comes.

But you guys have been on my mind -- I feel like a jerk, having just disappeared like that.  How are you doing?  What have you been up to?  Please tell me about your adventures. <3