Zoe Girl
11-23-14, 11:39am
and it kinda breaks my heart that she is not/can't go to school for this.
Her boyfriend just posted some of her 'doodles' on facebook. I have no luck posting pictures here so you will just have to trust me. You can tell she has been watching Breaking Bad because the lead character's face is that good. Facebook tried to have them tagged as people they are so good. They are pencil drawings that have the shading, expression, lines, whatever all that is, to be so realistic. He said she lacks some motivation to do more with them however. That has been it, she has such a hard time with focus, either hyper focus or no focus. She lives on her own (at 25 mind you) partially because when she lives with me she absolutely does not clean things. When we need to communicate it is so hard to get a reply to a text and she does not answer her phone. One time I sent her brother to hang out with her and called him to ask her the important question, I think that is actually kinda funny thing about her. But it also means that this amazing talent isn't getting more focus and discipline so she can really do more with it, and she wants to. The one time she really had it all click in life was when she was taking ADD meds, then she had them stolen and got too unfocused to ever get them again in the last 4 years. I have told her boyfriend this, he agrees, but she has to agree.My dream for her would be a tattoo apprenticeship, a combination of art and she has 6 tattoos now that she designed herself. She also designed for her coworkers at the movie theater shooting.
Meanwhile I totally struggle with the same things, I have stuff to get into my Etsy store, I have never sold anything there. There is a small stock and I struggle to get photos and upload them and do the business part of it. I was going to do some craft fairs this fall but my partner went to Hawaii on a good opportunity and then it didn't work, she came back and has not kept in touch. I need a person to partner with, support, something. There are people who like my work, and then I end up giving most of it as gifts or otherwise not even covering my supplies.
However the anger comes in with her dad. He has a 6 figure income. I get good child support for another year and a half and am trying to save as much as possible to help my kids with school. I feel terrible that I still struggle, He is a narcissist and when I used to have more contact with him the attitude was that the kids needed to 'earn' things from him. So we all know he could be financially supportive of her going to school or having a tattoo apprenticeship. Many years ago we looked at the art schools and different things, I could still cry that he pulled out support. But bottom line is that with more focus my daughter could probably find ways to make this work. Just sadness.
Her boyfriend just posted some of her 'doodles' on facebook. I have no luck posting pictures here so you will just have to trust me. You can tell she has been watching Breaking Bad because the lead character's face is that good. Facebook tried to have them tagged as people they are so good. They are pencil drawings that have the shading, expression, lines, whatever all that is, to be so realistic. He said she lacks some motivation to do more with them however. That has been it, she has such a hard time with focus, either hyper focus or no focus. She lives on her own (at 25 mind you) partially because when she lives with me she absolutely does not clean things. When we need to communicate it is so hard to get a reply to a text and she does not answer her phone. One time I sent her brother to hang out with her and called him to ask her the important question, I think that is actually kinda funny thing about her. But it also means that this amazing talent isn't getting more focus and discipline so she can really do more with it, and she wants to. The one time she really had it all click in life was when she was taking ADD meds, then she had them stolen and got too unfocused to ever get them again in the last 4 years. I have told her boyfriend this, he agrees, but she has to agree.My dream for her would be a tattoo apprenticeship, a combination of art and she has 6 tattoos now that she designed herself. She also designed for her coworkers at the movie theater shooting.
Meanwhile I totally struggle with the same things, I have stuff to get into my Etsy store, I have never sold anything there. There is a small stock and I struggle to get photos and upload them and do the business part of it. I was going to do some craft fairs this fall but my partner went to Hawaii on a good opportunity and then it didn't work, she came back and has not kept in touch. I need a person to partner with, support, something. There are people who like my work, and then I end up giving most of it as gifts or otherwise not even covering my supplies.
However the anger comes in with her dad. He has a 6 figure income. I get good child support for another year and a half and am trying to save as much as possible to help my kids with school. I feel terrible that I still struggle, He is a narcissist and when I used to have more contact with him the attitude was that the kids needed to 'earn' things from him. So we all know he could be financially supportive of her going to school or having a tattoo apprenticeship. Many years ago we looked at the art schools and different things, I could still cry that he pulled out support. But bottom line is that with more focus my daughter could probably find ways to make this work. Just sadness.