New Beginnings

After much deliberation I have decided to start this new blog. I have been working away on my other one since October 2007 and get a lot of pleasure and joy from uploading images of my current work and projects but I have been keeping it kind of work related, all things craft and design based. But I have so many other things I want to talk about but don't feel that is the place amongst my jewellery and cards! Although my creativity is what makes me me, I feel this blog can be another home for my soul, to explore all the spiritual things I am discovering on my journey. And I don't want my customers thinking I'm loopy!

Here I want to write poems, show doodles and sketches, and do projects for myself not my work. I spent a lot of time over Christmas thinking about what direction my work was taking and I have implimented lots of postive changes, but I felt it was time to explore a kind of emptiness in my creativity. Each day I rise to make things, cards, jewellery, take photographs all to make a living. But for so long I have neglected creating just for me, for the sake of doing it. So many nights I lie in bed thinking of things to make and then dismiss them either because I don't have time or I begin to listen to my inner chatterings of;
'what's the point, that wouldn't sell'
'you have too many other things to be doing'
'you need to make money to eat, not play around for fun'

Having read "The Artist's Way" last year and working through it, I know this is me blocking myself from really looking beneath the surface, and it is this that stops me from truely creating from the heart.

So here I am, ready to find like minded people, learn, read, explore and enjoy my creative life.