artist's date

one of the weekly assignments we have to complete for the artist's way is an artist date where you have to take your artist self out on a date. this is simply following the basic principals of relationship maintenance: quality time. you have to go alone and it has to be fun and play. for some reason i've been resisting these a bit. i don't have problems being alone and i don't have problems doing joyful things, but somehow setting aside time {oh, that elusive being} and intent to pamper my artist self has been tough.

on monday, a mere hours before class, i decided to finally make it happen {in my defense, i've spent more time out of town than in it recently}. i went on a little jaunt down to the pike place market antique shop that is the source of my button fetish. i picked up 150 new buttons, a few random glass jars, and one big 5 gallon glass jar that will soon become my gratitude jar {i am still waiting to decide how i will put the little writings of gratitude into the jar. do i crumple them up as i drop them, leave them open so i can read them a little from the outside, or carefully fold each and every one into a crane?}. the price on the big jar was a little above what i had in mind, but then again, i had gone to the store specifically to pick up buttons and this glass jar just like the one i had been picturing for over a week, so why should i balk at the price of something so obviously intended for me {i found it within minutes of walking into the store, just as i imagined it}.

the gratitude jar will have to be shown later {by the way, looking for a less awkward way of saying the same idea} and in the meantime, enjoy the buttons!