The morning started out to be a day in which Winnie the Pooh would have felt right at home...all blustery and wet. Days like that always seem to give you time to think....least they do for me and I've spent the better part of my day today realizing that there is a part of me that has been missing, and that it's high time to reclaim it!
This past summer, I know you probably saw lots and lots of pictures of my flowers posted here on my blog, and perhaps some pictures of things that I have painted as well. This last year or so, I've kind of fallen away from some of the things that I enjoy most...lots of reasons why I suppose, but I just feel like it's time that I find that place within me again regardless of whatever stresses that I am feeling. I've let them consume me, or at least consume the creative side of me and really, now is when I need that outlet more than ever.
I love to create and nurture beautiful things! There is almost nothing in the world that I love more than that moment in my head when an idea is born; color and texture just delight me and there is something so theraputic about finding that "zone" from which beauty is born. I love to grow flowers and nuture plants of all types, painting glass, using watercolor pencils and pastel chalks, stenciling, make special cards for the important people in my life, making hair wraps, beading, sewing and creating wonderful food for people that I care about. To me, each of those things is really all about the same thing...they are avenues in which to express myself, to capture and create beauty, and show my love for the people that I charish the most. Maybe that's been why I've fallen away from it some...there's just been so much personal upheaval in my life in the last year or so that the place from which this flows has been wounded, I just dunno.
But...it's just time! Time to reclaim that part of my spirit again. And, as luck would have it I have my own special place in which I can do all of these things now that the last kid has flown the coop! I just have to finish making it my own, which I should have PLENTY time to do over the next couple months while Flashmo is working in Van Nyes
I thought I'd post a few pictures of some of the things I've done over the years:
This past summer, I know you probably saw lots and lots of pictures of my flowers posted here on my blog, and perhaps some pictures of things that I have painted as well. This last year or so, I've kind of fallen away from some of the things that I enjoy most...lots of reasons why I suppose, but I just feel like it's time that I find that place within me again regardless of whatever stresses that I am feeling. I've let them consume me, or at least consume the creative side of me and really, now is when I need that outlet more than ever.
I love to create and nurture beautiful things! There is almost nothing in the world that I love more than that moment in my head when an idea is born; color and texture just delight me and there is something so theraputic about finding that "zone" from which beauty is born. I love to grow flowers and nuture plants of all types, painting glass, using watercolor pencils and pastel chalks, stenciling, make special cards for the important people in my life, making hair wraps, beading, sewing and creating wonderful food for people that I care about. To me, each of those things is really all about the same thing...they are avenues in which to express myself, to capture and create beauty, and show my love for the people that I charish the most. Maybe that's been why I've fallen away from it some...there's just been so much personal upheaval in my life in the last year or so that the place from which this flows has been wounded, I just dunno.
But...it's just time! Time to reclaim that part of my spirit again. And, as luck would have it I have my own special place in which I can do all of these things now that the last kid has flown the coop! I just have to finish making it my own, which I should have PLENTY time to do over the next couple months while Flashmo is working in Van Nyes
I thought I'd post a few pictures of some of the things I've done over the years:
Hope you are having an amazing weekend!
Much loves to you all 
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I'm just sorting some things out...
Some relationships have come to an end, and my realizations about some things were right, and it hurt..but at the same time I'm kicking myself for not following my gut instinct ya know?