So, I chose a new name.  One that can reflect who I am, how I feel…. Abbi-Normal.com .  So maybe it’s really just a play on words & easier to remember than Under The Moon.   I don’t want to lose what I have with UTM however.  I don’t want to lose the ‘Fairytale’ side of what I do.  The fairies, the dragons, all the sparkly pretty things.  However, I do want to have fun & that means bright colors & off the wall characters.  I want to make earrings & necklaces in fun weird shapes.  Like Sushi earrings or fortune cookies or cupcakes & popsicles.  It’s fun for me.  I’m thinkin’ that’s what is most important anyways.  Well, maybe not most important- I’d have to say that would be using my talent in the first place.  I made an itty bitty dragon last night that glows in the dark & fits on a quarter.  It was way fun.  Selling it?  Of course not!  There is my biggest problem, the selling part.  If I make something I like, I just can’t part with it.  Oh well I guess.  The fun part about starting Abbi Normal too is making up this character Abbi.  Draw her, make her out of clay.  A new logo of sorts.  Not that I had one in the first place.  New website design, new business cards- the works.  I am excited.  I change my mind constantly though & can’t seem to stick to one good design.  I have a side that is beauty & wonder, the blues & purples & calm pretty colors.  Then there is my side of hot pink & splattered paint & stripes & polka dots.  Kind of hard to mesh, we’ll see what happens.  The ideas I am getting are fn however & I am excited about that.  We also finally got our upstairs landing room floor done.  This means a clean warm space to do my art in.  I am way excited to organize my stuff.  Maybe tonight?  Probably not.  I will certainly have to get a TV up there thought since I must be distracted to work.  I blessing & a curse.  Well, I suppose I had best be off to do my actual work that makes us money for now. 

I am about bursting with creative ideas at the moment.  I have had these plans to make fun little creatures that I enjoy making, not really concerned with whether anyone else likes them.  I have this style in mind but could never put a name to it.  Sort of Anime, sort of Punk, a little Goth, maybe Indie, perhaps Pop… it’s eh, Anipungotindipop… I guess.  Whatever it is, it’s fun & colorful.  Little people without noses or mouths, colorful dogs & dragons, little Chibis of every type, fairies wearing striped tights.  What if, I can have my fun & actually sell some of this crap?  Bonus?? I guess, even though I know I want to keep it all for myself.  So I am pumped, at the moment.  I am considering changing my website name.  I always wanted something a little more catchy anyways.  So yea, that’s fun for me.  I mostly spend my “spare” time pondering my inspiration & dreaming up new OOAK Polymer Creations to be born. K, I needed a break from my busy work.  Now back to it.  BLEH.

Ok, so I am not too fond of snow, or rather driving in it.  Snow is cold & wet & gets in the back of my shoes & makes my kitchen floor a mess every day.  However, last Thursday after the big snowfall I was standing outside in the dark letting our dogs out & the only light was from our porch light.  I looked across the yard & noticed that sparkle across the fluffy snow every once & a while.  Beside me was about 3 or 4 inches of snow perfectly piled on the top of our trash can, it looked like a down comforter laying across the top of it.  I leaned in really close & was trying to look at the flakes individually & the light would catch the edge of one perfectly so I could see it’s tiny shape.  Suddenly I realised what a fabulous thing the snowflakes are.  I stood back up & looked around & wondered, are they all really different from each other?? Billions & billions.  They are so fabulous.  I picked up a little pile on my fingertip & watched them melt before I could get them up to my eyes & once again I thought, how trully amazing of a thing.  What else could I do but take a big mouthful of it.   And so, God finds me where I am once again… surrounded by the stuff I profess to hate.  So anyways, I am trying to kick my never ending feeling of lethargy.  Saturday night I slept about 7 hrs. then took a 2 hr. nap then slept about 8 1/2 last night.  I wake up tired & I am basically tired all day.  Ok, so my exercise plan has gotten off track but I plan on picking that back up starting tonight.  Also try to change our eating habits a bit & see what happens.  Nothing drastic, just smarter.  My point?  Ummm good question.  I guess maybe one thing is that when I am so tired I don’t feel like doing my art sometimes.  I will pick just watching a movie over watching a movie & doing my art or just doing my art.  That has go to stop!  Laziness cuts me like fine cutlery.  *A quote from Pedro the Lion.  How true for my life though.  Well anyways, we’ll see what happens tonight. 

It’s snowing, no it’s not just snowing- it’s pouring snow!!  I bet my car has 4 inches of snow on it right now.  GRR.  Ok, the plus side. I have longed forever to not have to drive to a job in the snow.  I am terrified, I have to admit.  I am the one driving about 35 white knuckles with everyone honking behind me.  Never dreamt it would be me…. but it is.  Of course last year helped, for the first time I wasn’t driving a Prism with balding tires, fairly bad brakes & no acceleration.  Instead we had our newer car with the traction system in it & air bags all around.  Helps, but I would just rather not drive.  So yea, that’s pretty much why I hate snow.  In fact, I used to be a huge fan of the crap.  That was, right up until the winter I first had my drivers licence.  My childhood consisted of snow forts, snowball fights, sledding, playing on the ice.  It was the greatest.  We lived in the country so my neighbor & I would head down to the irrigation ditches that would freeze & we would play arround in the tunnels & what not.  Good times!! Maybe I am getting old?  My husband loves the snow, he is the type to slam on his brakes just because it is fun to slide around.  Plus, he has gokarts, & sleds.  It’s good times too, but I drive out there like a granny too!  I bet though, when we have kids I will renew my love for the white cold stuff.  I still eat it, I still like to throw it, I guess it’s just the driving that really really freaks me out.  Oh yea, I wear clogs too, so that’s no good with the snow in the heals. So, in conclusion, it snowed today, it’s cold today, I can’t say I like it.  The sun is out right now & it is rather… beautiful. Ok I will admit that when it is pouring snow especially huge flakes I can’t help but feel all fuzzy at the thought of being inside of a living snowglobe.  Cool.  Haha..