So, what does a creative stay at home mom do to keep her sanity? It’s a great question that I can’t answer for everyone. I, myself like to keep busy in order to keep from cleaning.
An interesting paradox….a housewife who hates housework. You show me a perfect house, and I’ll show you a desperate housewife with nothing better to do…..Please don’t think I’m ranking on those Martha Stewart types, I wish I could experience their thrill of monotony. For me, I just find the daily chores an exercise in the futile….especially with my messy brood…but my guess is that Rachel Ray is a bit of a slob herself. And, Oprah without all the help would be hopeless around the house.
I’ve tried to get Zen about it, I’ve tried various systems out of Better Homes and Gardens…but when my kid walks in and asks to do paper mache pigs, I immediately quit cleaning and start creating. I love the creative side of domestic sciences, like cooking and decorating….but my house is 6 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms and it’s all a bit overwhelming at times. What were we thinking when we got such a big house?
That being said, I do keep my home sanitized, especially when my littlest was awaiting her surgeries. I used to make visitors wear large bleached work shirts of my husbands, and I still have a drawer full of medical masks right by the front door in case anyone comes over with a sniffle. I HATE it when people come to my house with a cold. I find it rude for someone to come to a party knowingly sick.
So, when I want to escape housework, I find something creative to fill my time. For over a decade I produced musical reviews and planned weddings and parties for friends and clients of my husband’s. I never tried to make money at it, I just did it to keep myself away from the feather duster.
I also fell into web design accidentally, and even had an online fund raising company for small non-profits. Again, my business partner and I never made any real profit, but it was a fun distraction for awhile.
So, now my pet project is helping my friend Paul get his personalized color shampoo line launched. Paul owns a fierce little place called Blue Chair Salon. I’ll never forget the first time I sat in his chair and watched him work….he was trained at the Vidal Sassoon Academy in Australia, and his technique is flawless, as is his approach to hair color. Anyway, we’ve been developing this shampoo for over a year, and it’s finally ready to launch. Well, almost. We still need to get a good design to silkscreen on the bottles.
This is where you come in: Please look at the following samples, and tell which one is your favorite. Thanks in advance!
Now, imagine if you will these bottles filled with high pigment color….red, blue, orange, etc. and the gray ink will be metallic silver, not just gray.
