Scissors 2<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a92015 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\nSo if you struggle, as I often do, to squeeze everything into a given week — especially at this time of year — first, take comfort in the fact that as a creative person you undoubtedly have a knack for brainstorming elastic solutions for overcoming hurdles that might stymie someone else. Secondly, I’ve found that relying on a kitchen timer allows me to cram work into short snippets of available time. It’s something of a psychological gimmick, but it helps to assure that I accomplish something, even if it’s very small.\u00a0 Then I can look back over even the busiest day and know I made at least one more step forward art-wise.<\/p>\n
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How can it almost be Thanksgiving already? There’s nothing like the holidays for putting a serious crimp in the schedules we’re already scrambling to tame. And while I don’t want to miss out on the things that are unique to the season, I also don’t want to put my artwork on hold for 6 weeks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[128,130,131,14,127,129],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scheduling","tag-holidays","tag-james-clear","tag-jason-t-borbet","tag-schedule","tag-time","tag-timer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kO5z-kC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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