Creative overflow

My life is in full chaos mode right now. I spend my days reviewing contracts and documents and following up on a seemingly endless flow of emails and text messages. Tell me why, now of all times, my creative impulses are firing on all cylinders?

I’m preparing for a garage sale this upcoming weekend and been making steady progress collecting the items for the sale and categorizing them. Yet whenever I have a moment of downtime my brain is flush with new artistic endeavors and projects. I have been working on art to include in the sale, which might sound a little crazy but is less crazy when you consider that it’s all watercolor prints that have been in storage and just need tiny touch ups or a signature to complete.

I should spend this afternoon making a pricing guide and working on cleaning the garage but instead I feel a need to get into the studio to create. It’s almost an overwhelming pull to go work on something creative. If I had to psycho analyze this impulse, I could chalk it up to avoidance of difficult decisions. But that’s a job for my therapist or my sister.

I’m choosing to believe that if I am productive in the morning with garage sale prep that I’m due a bit of a treat and that treat just happens to be making stuff at the studio. Some could argue that I’m actually being SO productive.