Well, I've been in quite a slump lately! I've been mixing up my diet to eat more primal with less grains and yet still feed my family things they will eat so I'm totally lost in the grocery store. I've moved into a new, larger wall at http://www.woolworthwalk.com/ so I'm designing the wall, shelves, jewelry . . . The last time I was there, I had the kids with me and got them a hot coca and tried to set to work but wound up dropping something that broke all over the floor while people were eating and found out I have to re-configure my lighting which is basically saying I have to start over : ( And, I'm trying to get back on etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/kungfuclay?ref=si_shop and have a real presence there and increase my sales . . . Not to mention teaching art again at FBRAhttp://www.fbriveracademy.org/connect-with-fbra/ and being a good mamma . . . Everything together seems to left me quite paralyzed which what to do next and even where to put my work or even how to get my hands dirty in the studio again. Last night Riley began throwing up at my bedside around 1:00AM and proceeded to continue to have a violent retching sessions all night long. I started throwing up this morning. I think it's fast and furious and we're coming out of it but it is simply the last thing that I need when I'm already running in so many directions. I hope to feel better and go to my class at ABtech tomorrow morning and teach Friday and start next week fresh and ready to take on the world. I need focus, focus, focus. Any advice on how to find it?

Focus

I finished a most exciting new "product" today! In November I was in a little show at Vance Elementary School and my neighbor at the show was this adorable, amazing woman with terrariums. As it turns out she designs weddings from the flowers to the table settings . . . She encouraged me to turn my soap dishes into ring barer dishes that could then be used for soap dishes later. She said, "Feed a ribbon through the holes, add a little moss" Anyway, I just unloaded some dishes that I planned for that very purpose today and went to the florist and bought some moss, pussy willow and thistle and made some faux porcelain rings and I Love You charms and the whole combination is so thrilling! While I love fresh new ideas and diversifying my line of work so I can appeal to a winder market and such, I do feel that I'm spreading out too thin. I looked at my new Woolworth Walk Wall and it was chaotic and not as cohesive as I'd like. I used to be known as the "oh yeah, you're the salt and pepper lady" but now it doesn't look that way. Please help me understand how to find focus when ideas keep coming? Not just creative clay and other art ideas but food truck and other ventures appeal to me. It's so hard to keep driving at the same mission. Luckily Kung Fu Clay has stuck for a long enough period and I simply love creating the guys or I may have left it long ago to sew diapers or serve green waffles from a truck . . . Anyone else this way? Am I crazy? Lovin' life right now, simply scattered and while it's thrilling, it's also a wild ride.

So it's been a while since I've I've posted on my blog. That's all about to change. This summer a woman came into my life, Lee Wolfe of http://www.etsy.com/people/OneClayBead, she saw me at a Big Crafty and struck up a conversation with me about my work. She had seen my work before and had even bought a wine stopper. She asked me if I was on etsy and when I replied that I did try listing some things a couple of years ago and although they all sold, I found the photographing and listing process to be too time consuming and needed inventory for my galleries. Lee said that I reminded her of herself 20 years ago making clay and selling wholesale and when she finally put more effort into listing on etsy, her business took off. She had me over to her house and refreshed my memory on how to function on etsy and make treasuries . . . I have been slowly pulling out of several galleries and photographing some pieces to list on etsy. Because I have two small children, I'm being patient with myself but now that the holiday rush has come and gone, that's all about to change. Lookout world, Jen Goff and Kung Fu Clay is about to hit it big time and stop half-way doing things. I'm going to do what a friend of mine did: she told herself to spend three months putting time and effort into etsy and see what it got her and it helped give her a great holiday season this year (Sumner at http://spotteddogasheville.blogspot.com/) I'm working from a new computer so no photos to include now but will start trying to post more regularly and am certain to have photos coming.