The Midwest is buried beneath inches of snow, singing the freezing songs of their ancestors, while most of us shovel and grumble and fall down in snowbanks.

Welcome March.

For those of you who contribute to the World of Art in whatever form you choose, do you use crummy weather to try new things? New forms of art? Do you work on your current projects or  plan for future art fairs and Christmas gifts?

I’d love to know if you use spare time to play or to work.

I have a large enough stock of purse charms and suncatchers to meet my first craft fair in August, so my creative mind looked elsewhere. I did some painting — I created four 18 x 24″ pop art paintings, complete with clock hands and/or 3D embellishments. I also painted four 5″ x 7″ similar canvases. It was fun, but, alas, I have no room to make/keep any more paintings, so on to other things.

Lately I’ve been adding beads to newly acquired sundresses in preparation for a trip to Disneyworld in April. But, again, there are only so many sundresses.

I think I’ve exhausted my creative stash.

It’s not like I don’t have things to do every day. Life is like that. No rest from cleaning and babysitting and cooking and all other tasks that make us what we are.

Maybe it’s my ADHD, but I can’t sit around forever doing nothing with my idle time. I love looking out the window and going for walks and working with my plants, but with a foot of snow out my window my art projects stay inside.

What do you do when kept inside by snow or thunderstorms or melting heat? I’d love to hear your ideas.  

You all inspire me!