So…I’ve been busy. BOD, which I imagined would capture the affection and imagination of a few dozen people has turned into a ginormous undertaking with over 800 sign-up.  I’m blown away by the response and humbled and grateful for every single person who takes the time to open my thrice weekly newsletter, read my dispatches, watch my videos and then post what they did in response on Facebook or Flickr.

It’s been amazing, but it also means that I have had time for little else. The Studio? Languishing. My own work on classes I’m taking? Non-existant. Housework?

I can has a maid now please kthnxbai!

All the same, this is living. I wake up every morning excited to see what’s been posted. I get the loveliest e-mails and private messages. I am encouraged and supported beyond belief.

Your patience here has been appreciated as well.

I’ve come up against a problem. I have too many things happening in too many places and it’s time to consolidate to the best of my ability. I want my blog, BOD, and the e-courses I produce to live in one handily accessible spot, so I will be moving things here to this new spot over the next days and weeks. (This url will redirect to the new place shortly!)

What Does That Mean For Wild Precious Studio?

Well, Jeanette is running Creative POP on a private blog to see how that venue works for her. She has very limited energy due to her ME/Fibro and can’t be looking after WPS and her own income generating affairs. I am running BOD via newsletter, Facebook and a (soon to be) private blog. I am starting to feel torn in too many directions.

I’m doing To See Us Through The Long Dark: Life Is A Verb in February of this year. I will be syndicating the content in both Wild Precious and the BOD newsletter (in slightly different formats to accomodate each venue). We’ll see how that goes. If there is oodles of interaction in Facebook/Private Blog/E-mail and little in the Studio (as there was last time we tried to run this program) then I’ll have my answer. The site will remain up until the end of October 2012, but at that point we will let it lapse. All purchased content will be archived on private blogs, so you will lose *nothing* and I will gain the almost $300 a year it costs to run a NING.

I’m already leaning heavily toward letting it go, but the LIAV programme will be our final attempt to make it go vroom vroom. I have come to dislike the way it’s organized, and I’m not too keen on our prospects should SOPA pass, either. The thought of being responsible for all that content – content I can’t possibly keep track of – scares the beejeebers out of me. I’d rather have places that limit what people can post to links to their own blogs than face having my entire site taken down because someone posted copyrighted content.

So, that’s where I’m at with it. Jeanette and I talked about it for a long time today and we can both see that our interests are taking us elsewhere: outside of a NING, into our own individual projects that we can run according to our own energy levels, personal styles, budgetary concerns, and tastes. I love that girl like she’s my sister, though, so please do not think for a second that this is a personal rift between us. I know some of you will look for the drama, so I’ll save you the work. There is none!

Unless You Count Excitement.

There is plenty of *that* kind of drama. There is so much going on in my life right now and all of it worth flinging glitter over. My husband remarked the other day that he has never seen me so happy in Winter. He’s seen me in the grip of seasonal affective disorder for seven winters since we met. It doesn’t look anything like this bouncy, happy, glitter encrusted, organized, BUSY girl he’s having dinner with every night.

We’re both eternally grateful.

Thank you for rocking my ever loving poptarts. I will keep you posted on all fronts.

Love & Glitter,

Effy The Wild

Before the New Year’s Bells rang, an announcement went out that Life Book 2012 was OPEN! Well, I ran my little hindie over to take a peek, and whoa! Such gorgeousness! I’m already half done my first spread, and I can’t wait to show you my *first* 3/4 profile portrait ever!

Then, my middle kid and his wife came over and we had an absolutely blissful NYE celebration with sipping of things and nibbling of things and watching of Bladerunner. *bliss*

New Year’s Day found me livestreaming for over 80 people over here. I recorded it for posterity. What a blast we had! Here’s what I made:

I am busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs with BOD2012. I woke up on my very first official Monday of 2012 to discover that 602 people had signed up.

Six hundred and two.

(There were 614 when last I checked. This is *crazy!*)

And there are over 300 people in the Facebook group making beautiful messes and showing their work, supporting one another. Mahoosively awesome.

And, of course, I am arting! I made this gorgeousness today:

And posted all the photos from my BOD to date in my Flickr, too.

There will be more from me tomorrow because I want to tell you about Open Studio (which I’m signed up for) and Jan Fox’s 52 Playdates and Jeanette’s Creative POP but I made a video today and wrote a newsletter and responded to a bazillion messages, so I am teh knackered.

Love and Glitter,

Effy