alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 6 days agoArt and Creativity Journal: The Tiniest ThingsIn the last update I was talking about painting the small things that serve us well as "impulse items" at shows and festivals. While double checking and quality sorting…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 8 days agoArt and Creativity Journal: Painting Some Small Stuff One of the things about doing outside events and shows is that we invariably have to have an extensive stock of quick pick-up impulse items in the under $10 range. ![3418.jpg](alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 13 days agoArt and Creativity Journal: Routine Busy Work Trying to get a bit of momentum going, I spent much of the day doing some routine "busy work" relating to getting ready for fall show season. It's not exactly…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 19 days agoArt and Creativity Journal: More Newly Finished Work Sometimes, you just have to forge ahead regardless of whether you feel like it or not. So, today I made myself go to work on finishing another batch of stones that had been…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • last monthArt and Creativity Journal: New Work... FinishedFinally managed to put a finish coat on painted stones from earlier in the spring, resulting in what I guess we would call new inventory even though it is kind of old!  , I spent some time today working on social media updates. Specifically, I was responding to a request from Patreon to "update…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • last monthArt and Creativity Journal: Work Resumes!Well, we have arrived at the second half of the year 2026, and even though calendars are a pretty arbitrary thing it seems like a good reason to resume creative work, or at least…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 2 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Beach TrippingLast week, we finally got away for a trip to the "big" beach, out on Washington's Pacific coast. These trips to the Pacific coast matter because the stones there tend to be…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 2 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: "Big" Beach Trip Upcoming!Although I have sporadically mentioned that I could really use some high quality stones to paint on — stones that are better than what we can find here on our local beaches —…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 2 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Events Falling Into PlaceAlthough my creativity hasn't been anything to write home about lately, a few peripheral things are falling into place. Specifically, our outside events schedule is…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 3 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: June Gloom in MayGreetings, from the creative doldrums of my mind! The climate around here usually provides us with something we call the "June Gloom." It has salchemystones in #hive-148441 • 3 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Questioning My Assumptions Lately, I have not been feeling very creative. Each time I have sat down in an attempt to start painting something, I've gotten back up after about 5 minutes and decided that I…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 4 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Things Work... Until They Don't So, I managed to make it 13 weeks into my good intentions of making a weekly post of creative work from the previous week. And then things pretty much fell apart. ![2755.jpg](alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 4 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Spring Beach Combing Since it was a really nice spring day today, and my general level of motivation felt somewhere close to zero, I decided the best way to spend the day was to take a good long walk…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 4 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Last Week I Painted — Week Thirteen, 2026Continuing on, building my 2026 "Work Catalog." To recap: these are simple photos of the stones just painted during the preceding week, shown in "raw" format, before they get…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 5 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Some Weeks Are Better Than Others!Normally, Monday is a reserved for the weekly update on the work I managed to do in the course of the previous seven days. That is to say, the painting work I did. ![2115.jpg](alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 5 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Last Week I Painted — Week Ten, 2026Week ten turned out to be the least productive — at least from a painting perspective — week of the year, so far. Mostly, my only "creative" endeavors were related to…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 5 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Wear and Touch-UpsThe thing about objects that are meant to be picked up — and used as meditation stones or something similar — is that they invariably end up getting picked up! ![2293.jpg](alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 5 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Last Week I Painted — Week Nine, 2026Week nine turned out to be a moderately good week, creativity wise. That said, most of my time was actually spent transferring inventory to Etsy and working on creating content…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 5 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: "Cleaning House" is a Lot of Work!Undertaking major changes, whether it is to your life, or to a process within that life is often more work than we originally think. As I have written a
