Good afternoon, I just wanted to share with you a few happy IG posts that I’ve stumbled upon this week, to spread the happy!! 😉
What makes you happy today?
Hugs to you!
Friday, November 4, 2016
Good morning, world!
Jason has just left to go to work, and of course my sweet Sophie girl is curled up asleep, next to me, as I play on my computer this morning! This is starting to become our morning ritual, Sophie girl & I! I am so thankful that she is able to stay with me.
This transitioning to working from home can get really lonely really fast!
I talk to her a lot! and I mean, like, “Girrrrrrrl, has she lost here ever-loving mind???” a lot!! Don’t worry, she doesn’t actually speak back, like with actual words or anything, but we do pretty well understanding each other!
I am really in my head this morning. Hell, who am I kidding??? being an introvert, I am in my head a lot most mornings! Today, I am thinking about all of the work that still has yet to be done!
Like a crazy person, I have committed to posting 1 YouTube video every day of November, and then I had already decided that I wanted to do a 24 Days of Christmas series, which means I will be posting a YouTube video EVERY-SINGLE-DAY-FOR-54-DAYS!!! The reality of that boggles the mind!!
And if that weren’t insane enough, I have thrown a BIG move right into the middle of all of that!! The YouTube videos right now are a full time job, in and of itself, but then I realize, “CRAP!! Someone has got to pack this house up!!!” Well, that someone is me!
My hubby and I have moved A LOT in our 21 years of marriage!! So many times, that I honestly have lost count!! Moving has kind of fed the gypsy in me. The one that is always want to purge, pack, and start brand new. I haven’t moved in 10 years. THAT IN INSANE to me!! That might be where my longing for a change of scenery has come from, my soul getting itchy to stretch out and try on a new environment.
This is both scary and exciting!
What this has done for me, which is surprising to me, is it has reawakened my passion for decorating, decor, and home DIY projects!!
That is where I started my creative life, originally!
It is my roots, so to speak!
My mom was a very talented crafter, matter of fact people used to give her the moniker “Queen of Crafts”. I wanted to be crafty too, but someone in the family said, “We already have one creative person in the family, we don’t need two.” Well, apparently that person was mistaken, because here I am!!
The thing that I am finding most joyous about creating YouTube videos, especially having committed to posting every day for 54 days, is that it forces me to look around my world, and find ways to be creative, EVERY-SINGLE-DAY!!
That makes my soul sing, really, REALLY LOUDLY!!!
I think that is what my soul should be doing.
If I am going to spend a good half of my lifetime working, I want my job to be joyous, and make my soul sing really, REALLY LOUDY, at least once, EVERY-SINGLE-DAY! Now, don’t get me wrong, there are so many things that go wrong with the process of making YouTube videos, or creating, or just life in general. I can not even think to tell you how many times some computer-ey thing that I was trying to figure out how to do, has frustrated me to the point of tears. Way too many times that what I thought could be humanly possible when I first started my YouTube career!! 😉
But, at the end of the day, when the tears have subsided, and I’ve cozied up in bed, next to my hubby, for a good night’s sleep, I can honestly tell you that, when I close my eyes at night, I am seriously happy. Like down to my tippy toes, if I could do this for the rest of my life, with no pay, I would still die an EXTREMELY HAPPY girl, and is that what it is all about anyway!??
I know, I know, life is not all rainbows, and unicorns, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t at least try to make every moment as close to that as possible, does it? What is wrong with being happy in your work?
I have always believed that “work” was supposed to be a sad, depressing, durge. A task, that when you had completed a day of it, you were supposed to be left completely wiped out, with nothing left for anyone else. If it wasn’t, then you weren’t doing it right.
Man, oh man, I was so wrong!!
Now, mind you, I don’t actually make money doing what I do. I am not sure how that works, yet. But, that is okay with me. I am in the stages of learning the process, and doing the ground work, so that in 5 to 10 years, someone can say, oh look at Chrissie, she was an overnight success, and I can just stand back and smile, and laugh to myself, “Oh, if only they knew how much real work, and blood, and sweat, and tears has gone into this “overnight success”!”
Man, I can honestly say I can’t wait for that day to come!!
As for now, I am going to count my blessings, and just keep doing creative work, that continues to make my soul sing!!
Here is to a life filled with many happy songs!!
Dreaming of a Lovely Christmas at Home!
Good afternoon, my beautiful creatives!
I am dreaming of Christmas in my new house. We are not there yet. We actually do not move in until December 1st.
In my world, we put up our Christmas decorations on November first. My hubby and I have made this one of our favorite Christmas traditions since the year my mom died, which was in 1999. He kept playing the song, “We Need A Little Christmas”, and we did, we really REALLY needed it.
So a Christmas tradition was born.
I know that November, 1st is technically early, but do you know how much work it takes to decorate everything beautifully??? And since my hubby and I are usually out of town for the actual Christmas holiday, we try to enjoy evenings with the twinkle of Christmas lights sparkling off of shining ornaments for as long as we can.
This year, however, since we are moving, and more specifically, moving on December 1st, we are not doing that this year. Right now, as I sit here typing this, I am thinking that our very first thing going up, in our new house, will be our Christmas tree. I won’t care if I haven’t yet found our toothbrushes, or drinking glasses. Those are just minor details compared to the ambiance and radiance that a Christmas tree brings to our home.
Even though I am so excited about our move, I am a little bit sad that I cannot decorate as early as I want to, and because of that I thought I would share some of my FAVORITE Christmas Instagram pics that I have discovered! This is just going to have to do it’s magic little best to tide me over to the day that I too will be able to share a pic of our Christmas home!!
Here is to an AMAZINGLY MAGICAL holiday season!
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Good morning, world!
I am sitting in my living room, with my sweet Sophie girl already asleep by my side, her matronly age is starting to show. It is still early morning, and it is very quiet. My sweetie has already left for another day of hard, laborious, but gratifying work.
I can hear the ticking of a small clock on my living room wall, and a slow water drip from somewhere off in the distance. I live on a very busy street, so I hear the buzz of cars whirring by, but I am used to its steady rhythm. My world is very peaceful. As I sit here, quietly looking out on my ever changing life, I am struck by just how incredibly thankful I am for my life.
You would think that with all of the changes going on, health, job loss, move to the big city on the horizon, and all in the middle of the holiday season. You would think that I would, or maybe should be, freaking out right about now, but there is something peaceful going on inside of me. I am just so thankful. Thankful for all of it. There isn’t any usual sign of fear, or dread, or panic, or worry, which that, in and of itself, is a new thing, especially with all of my years of anxiety tucked neatly under my belt, as if it were a badge to be worn with honor.
To put it simply, life is really good.
I am really blessed.
If you asked me how everything was going to unfold, I would have to honestly tell you that I have no idea, but I know that everything is just as it should be. I am on my path. That sounds so odd coming from me, I need to say it again. I am on my path. I am on MY path!
My ongoing daily mantra is:
I am following my true north, staying in gratitude, and am living to connect, create, and empower.
That can sometimes feel like a really difficult thing to live up to, but this morning it seems to flow out of me with ease. I think that is because I feel like I am FINALLY turning this Titanic of a ship, a ship that has been my life for so long, onto the course that I was meant to live on all along. I am not sure why I have resisted, and pushed back, and struggled against for so long. I know my course will not be easy, and heaven knows just HOW MUCH work I still have yet to do, but for the first time in my adult life, I feel like I can do it. I am going to make it. I am going to be okay.
This knowledge is HUGE.
I am going to be okay.
I am going to be okay.
I AM GOING TO BE OKAY!
This is music to my ears, and FINALLY I have let my soul hear it’s song!
(insert power pose here!)
I am going to be okay.
To anyone who might be reading this post today, my wish for you is that you will find yourself, quite soon, peacefully sitting on your sofa, in the quiet of the morning, hearing your soul, too, tell you, that you are going to be okay.
Here is to new adventures!
Mixed Media with Chrissie B #4
Good morning!
It has been a couple of days since I have posted this latest video out on YouTube, but I wanted to make sure that I get this post up for you!
This week, as I got ready to do this art journal spread, I did not have a plan in mind, which is not surprising, as I usually come to my art journal playtime without any kind of a concrete plan. The only thing I had in mind was that I wanted to use the color red.
I once had an instructor teach that you should never use red in your art journaling unless you were using it in really tiny quantities, because it caused to much distraction. Well, red is my favorite color, but when she said that, I figured she was a better artist than myself, so she must know what she is talking about. So I completely took red out of my repertoire!! Seeing these words in print, is quite shocking to myself, because I never thought that I would let something like that stop me from using something that makes me so happy.
Well, if you have been following my journey lately, you will already know that I am going through a process of stripping off everything that is not authentically me, and how this translates in this art journal spread is that, since my favorite color is red, then I should be allowed to use it whenever I want to! That may seem like a very minor thing, in the big picture that makes up my life, but I am learning that being 100% completely free to be myself in everything, including my art should be a given! No matter how well intentioned that art instructor was, I need to remember to let my true colors fly and follow my true north, in whatever that means for me at the time! So, that is what I went into this play session thinking.
As I was laying down my colors, I decided that I was going to use a magazine image on this spread. I do that a lot in my personal art journaling, but I am not sure I ever have in any of my video layouts, so that is what I thought I would do this time. Again, all about being authentic and showing my true colors. It also is proof to myself and to anyone else who might be wondering, how do I create beautiful art journal pages if I don’t know how to draw? Well this is a perfectly acceptable way to do so!! I mean why not??? I just try to incorporate the image into one of the layers, instead of just plunking her down on the top of the spread, and I think she ends up looking pretty cool!!
and do you see what color she is????
RED!!!
Yep, she’s red! I don’t feel like she is a distraction, and this spread makes me UBER happy, so I am going to call this one a win!!
Supplies I used in today’s art journal spread:
- Old book pages
- Golden’s Fluid Matte Medium
- 1 1/2 inch hardware brush
- DecoArt Crafters Acrylic Paint: Christmas Red, Squash Blossom, Goldenrod
- 5 various wash tapes – I have no idea their brands
- Dr Ph Martin’s Bombay India Ink: Orange
- Golden’s Fluid Acrylic: Naphthol Red Medium
- General’s Pencil 2B
- M Graham & Co Heavy Body Acrylic Paint: Titanium White
- Dina Wakley Media Stencil – Alphabetic
- Magazine Image
- Uhu Glue Stick
- Christy Tomlinson Designs Stamp – Shescript
- Archival Ink Pad: Jet Black
- Stabilo All Pencil: Black
- Fineliner Applicator Standard Tip bottle with white acrylic paint
- A couple of paint brushes
- Scissors
Well that about raps it up for today! I am very happy with this spread, I hope you enjoyed it too! If you haven’t subscribed, please do so, so you don’t miss what’s to come!
If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments section! I will be happy to be of help! 🙂
Here is to living a Beautiful Creative life,
If you want to have a different life, you have to choose differently!
Mixed Media with Chrissie B #2
Good evening!
I am very excited to announce that I have posted a new Mixed Media with Chrissie B video, this is actually video #2, to be exact!
SIDE NOTE: mama is tired!! I am having a BLAST putting out so many new videos, but man, is it a TON OF WORK!!! I am hoping this will get a tad easier, in the next coming weeks, more to come!
Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled program!!
As, I was saying, before I so rudely interrupted myself. I have a new Mixed Media video out, and this week I decided to go old school and do a full art journal spread! I thought that this would be a piece of cake, but in all honesty I have been doing 1 page, loose leaf, journal spreads for the past 6 months or so, and I found myself struggling more than usual to get something down on the spread! Plus, to start a spread from start to finish, is not easy on my poor brain right now! Mama is seriously busy, I have mentioned that haven’t I? 🙂
When I first started this spread out, I had a completely different direction that I was going to take this spread. The only thing that remained the same to my original idea was the sentiment! When I found this piece of gauze hidden in my tissue paper drawer, it just screamed to be used – so here it appears!! 🙂
Here are a list of all of the supplies I used in this week’s project:
- Golden’s Matte Medium
- 1-1/2 inch utility brush
- a piece of gauze
- Ranger Heat Tool
- Golden’s fluid acrylic: teal
- Dr. Ph Martin’s Bombay India Ink: turquoise, grass green
- Staz On Ink Pad: forest green
- Crafter’s Workshop 12×12 stencils: Well Rounded, and I apologize, but I can’t find the name of the 2nd stencil. I will update this post with the name if I can find it!
- Sentiment printed out on regular printer paper
- Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue
- Scissors
- 1/4 inch utility brush
- White tissue paper that has been stamped with various stamps, using black staz on ink
- Ranger Craft Mat – used as a paint pallet
- Faber Castelle Pitt Artist Pen Big Brush: Indanthrene Blue (247), Purple Violet (136)
Whew! That seems like a lot of supplies, but I am thinking that maybe is very normal for me! 😉
On a more serious note: I chose this sentiment this week because I think that some time in the past 6 months this happened to me. I looked around at the life that I had created, and thought to myself, “How the hell did I get here?” It was like I had this plan for what I wanted to do, be, have, and experience, and then somewhere along the way I got sucked up in the rush of traffic of what is “normal”, “responsible”, and “expected”. When I finally really, truly looked around at this life that I had created, through all of my choices, and actions, I was shocked that I had ended up here. It was kind of like driving to work in the morning, and you let your mind start to wander, when you finally get to the parking lot at work, you do a double take and ask yourself, how did I get here??? That is what happened to me, and my life. It is not that my life is so bad, it is just that it is not what I had set out to create! That is freaking scary.
So I am changing things up, some of those changes I do not have much control over, but even those changes that I didn’t choose has caused me to wake up and really look around at my life. So for that, I am so incredibly thankful!!
I keep saying to myself I want a happy ending! I want a happy ending!! I realize, that it is not too late to create that happy ending for myself, on purpose! And thankfully I have an AMAZING support system in place of AWESOME people who will help support me in creating this new life! I am not sure how all of these changes are going to come to fruition, but I need to remember that no matter how scary all of the coming changes are going to be, it is waaaaay scarier to wake up and realize that you have arrived at an entirely new decade of your life, and you have no idea how you created the life that you are living in, because you are too busy flying on autopilot!
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much!” ~Jim Rohn
I know this video was really short and fast this week, I will work on that for future videos! In any case, I really hope you enjoyed this video! I know that I learned a lot about myself while creating it!
If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know in the comment section! I am always happy to be of help!
Here is to living a Beautiful Creative life! 😉
If you want to have a different life, you have to choose differently!
Mixed Media Techniques #3
Good evening!
This week, for my Mixed Media Art Technique video, I had some fun showcasing 3 of my favorite quick and easy art journal background techniques. More specifically, 3 easy ways to take the fear out of getting started on a white art journal page! I find that some times when I am faced with a fresh new page, I can overthink what to do first, and then end up getting frustrated, or worse, giving up and walking away. These simple techniques takes that fear out of getting started!
As promised here are the art supplies that I used this week:
- DecoArt Crafter’s Acrylic Paints: Wild Green, Tutti Fruitti, Tropical Blue, and Buttercream
- An old plastic credit card (a palette knife could be used as a substitute)
- Dina Wakley Media 1 Inch Flat Brush
- and a small square of hard plastic, that I had repurposed out of a piece of the packaging of something I had purchased (you could easily use any flat hard item to do this, or you could use a piece of overhead projector plastic, cut into a square)
I hope that these examples give you some inspiration to go and try doing some of your own quick and easy backgrounds! The sky is the limit on what you can do over the top of these backgrounds, but I hope I can help get you started. I am sure that in one of my future videos I will be showing how I finish each one of these pages, so please stay tuned! If you haven’t done so already, I would recommend that you subscribe so that you don’t miss a thing! 🙂
Thanks so much for visiting, and here is to living a Beautiful Creative life!
If you want to have a different life you have to choose differently!
Mixed Media with Chrissie B #1
Good evening!
I am so happy to report that I have a new art journaling video up out on YouTube. I will not lie to you, this is the longest video I have every done! WHEW!!! Watching this is more like watching a free art journaling background class!!! I am pretty happy with it!
As promised, here is a list of supplies that I used during this video:
- Dina Wakley Media Stiff Bristle 1 inch paint brush
- Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paints: Lime, Magenta, Ocean, Tangerine, Lemon, Turquoise, Fuchsia, Night, White
- Book Pages – I used pages from a small dictionary
- Golden’s Matte Medium
- Liquitex white gesso
- Palette knife – mine was plastic
- 3 mini Tim Holtz Stencils, Plus Signs, Dot Fade, and Schoolhouse
- Ryan Reaveley Dylusions Journaling Block
- Ranger Archival Ink pads: Manganese Blue, Deep Purple, Fern Green
- Dina Wakley Media Stamps: Textures
- Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamps: Mixed Media 2, Bitty Grunge
I hope you enjoyed this video!! There will be many more to come! 🙂
Here is to have a Beautiful Creative life!
If you want a different life, you have to choose differently!
Today I Choose!
Quote taken from the movie, The Answer Man:
Kris Lucas: Why can’t I do the things I want to do? There’s so much I know I’m capable of that I never actually do. Why is that?
Arlen Faber: The trick is to realize that you’re always doing what you want to do… always. Nobody’s making you do anything. Once you get that, you see that you’re free and that life is really just a series of choices. Nothing happens to you. You choose.
Where you are standing in your life right now, is a direct result of all of the choices you have made over the entirety of your life.
You choose.
You may not have chosen events that have happened around you, what family you were born into, what your financial status was, or other events that may have directly happened to you, pain or suffering that others may have caused you, people who may have come, or those who may have left you. You may not have chosen those events, but you chose, either consciously or subconsciously how you responded to those events. You gave those events meaning, and you chose which path you would then travel after those events.
You chose.
You chose then, and you choose now.
The choices that you have made were innocently made. They were meant to keep you safe, to keep you feeling whole, to keep you free from pain, and to keep you alive. But since when is safe, whole, pain-free, and alive enough. What about having life in your life? Where is the joy? The connection? The adventure? The passion? The creativity? The wonder? The abundance? Where is the thing that makes you so excited to wake up every morning and go take on your life?
Every single day you have the ability to choose something new.
A different viewpoint, a different attitude, a different emotion, a different meaning, or a different path.
You choose.
That change happens in an instant, but you still have to choose.
If you do not choose, someone else will choose for you. You will not be happy. Your soul will feel unsettled, as if something is not quite right, and you may not even be able to put your finger on what is the matter, but your soul will know. You will feel like your skin is itchy, or a little too big, or maybe your skin is too small, but your soul knows that you were not meant for this. Your world will feel as if there is something missing, or lacking, or lost, or sad. You may not know what that something is, but your soul will know. You might find yourself repeatedly asking yourself, “is there more to life than this?” “Is this it?” “Is this all there is?”
Your soul will start to send you messages, small, quiet whisper, to try to nudge you to choose differently, to live differently, to be authentic. To live the life that you and your soul were meant to live. To do the thing that only you and your unique, awesome, supah-powah self could do. The longer you stay away from that path, the sadder your soul will become. It will start to get louder, more persistent. It wants so desperately to get you to where it knows you are supposed to be.
The path that only you can walk.
The adventure that only you can take.
We will start to hear it, your soul, even if we do not yet understand it. Our soul’s voice may sound so foreign, that we will ignore it as not possibly being our voice because we are so unfamiliar with it’s sound. But there it will remain, no longer whispering, but now whining, and persistent, clinging to your leg as you try to walk on someone else’s path, holding on, like a child afraid of their mama leaving, desperate for your attention, yearning for your time, crying out for it’s need to be fulfilled.
You might find a moment of clarity, when you look around, in your life, and you do not recognize this life that you have created. How have you gotten here? You don’t recognize yourself in your surroundings. It is as if you let yourself be lead on autopilot to some unknown destination where the language is foreign, the food tastes off, and the room is always a bit too cold.
You realize that are uncomfortable. How long has this been going on?
This is a moment where your soul has finally gotten your attention, and you get to see this world you have created , through your entire history of choices. You finally see your world without the lie filters of “normalcy” and “settling” and “status quo” and “fitting in” that we have a tendency to look at the world through. At this moment, you have a choice to make. Do you decide to do what is safe, and slide those glasses back on, and keep on living the benign life that the world has laid out for you? Or do you choose something different? Do you choose to leave those glasses of lies, sitting on a shelf behind you; knowing full well, that at any time, if you really need to you, can always rush back to your shelf and put your glasses back on?
Choose.
You choose glasses free, and now glasses free, you take one step forward into your world, that world you have created. At first your world may frighten you, and make you sad, it may make you angry, it may make you feel resentful, this place that you have created. You might feel that where you are is not quite fair, that you deserve better than this. You see others who appear to be doing so much better than you, and it fills you with sadness, and maybe a bit of despair.
I am here to remind you that you choose. By making one choice at a time.
Make one choice.
Close your eyes. Breathe deeply, slowly, on purpose. In. Out. In. Out. Do this again and again, and think of nothing but that breath. Feel your heartbeat; consciously climb deep down into who you are. In. Out. In. Out. Move around in your subconscious. What do you see? Are there cobwebs? Clutter? Chaos? Do you need a deep cleaning? Start the process of cleaning your soul up, one choice at a time. Hug yourself tightly, be loving, and gentle, forgive, and be kind. Know that you are going to be okay. This process can be painful, slow, and lonely.
Choose to slough off one thing that doesn’t fit you, serve you, or fill you with joy! Be gentle with yourself, this is a process, but you must make the choice. You must take the action. After you have taken the action, sit with this new, fresh, clear space for a moment.
Close your eyes, and let that feeling fill you up. That feeling of, it was only one thing, but that one thing felt so authentically honoring to your soul, that you have a moment of clarity and peace. Your world is by no means perfect, and you may still not know where you are going, or even where you will end up. You know you still have such a long way to go, but you recognize that feeling of peace. It is a feeling that calls to you. It is a feeling your soul was born for.
As you start taking stock and cleaning up what needs to be cleaned, and you do the process of sloughing off one thing, and then another, and then another, you will start to notice that there will be rays of sunlight breaking through, here and there, and slowly but surely these rays will start filling your soul house with love, joy, recognition, and enthusiasm for what really has been in there all along, but hidden from mismanagement and neglect.
Soon, you will start to recognize your soul, as the powerful goddess that she is. She will no longer be a whining, child, hanging as a dead weight on your leg, dying to get your attention, but she will stand tall, and proud, and strong. The amazing Amazonian warrior that she is, and she will be standing right beside you, hand-in-hand. You will have empowered her to watch out for new and exciting paths for you and her to travel on.
You are a soul. You have a body. You only have this one vessel. You need to take care of her, and love her, and treat her like a sacred space. Feed her good, real, and whole foods. Provide her plenty of delicious, and refreshing water. Let her play in the sunshine, and dance in the rain. Give her opportunities to run, jump, swim, stretch, climb, swing, and twirl, every single day. Let her rest. Let her get quite and reenergize. Let her sleep, a deep, quality, and restful, healing sleep. Let her ask for help, and share her story. Let her connect with other soul sisters on a deep and meaningful level. You and she will be so much happier this way. You and she will be stronger, and have more energy, and you will have such a better ability to live the life that you were put on this earth to live.
What is your soul trying to tell you today? I dare you to stop, close your yes, breathe deeply and just listen for her whispers. She may need a hug, you may need to be extra especially gentle with yourself today, you may need a nap. Do one thing that moves in the direction of peace. That direction that leads you to healing, to wholeness, and to authentic you-ness. Only you can know what that is for you. You choose.
What will you choose today?
Here is to consciously choosing a Beautiful Creative Life!! 🙂
If you want to have a different life, choose differently!
Thankful for Tuesday Nights!
Good evening!
I am at home, with my sweetie and our sweet Sophie girl! We are watching an episode of Murdoch, which is a new show for us. So far so good!
I can honestly tell you that I am T-I-R-E-D!! With all of the changes going on in my life, I am not sleeping so well! More specifically, I can’t seem to sleep past 5 AM every morning, no matter how late I got to bed. Mind you, I am really excited about what is to come for our future, but apparently my subconscious might be freaking out just a little bit!
Since, after October 28th, I will no longer be making a steady paycheck, I am SOOOO determined to create a business of my own, and right now that means SOOOOOO many hours of extra work hours. 40 for the hospital and who knows how many more for myself, not to mention commute, trying to stay on top of keeping a house, having some kind of a social life, and all of the other important things that need to get done during any given week! WHEW!! Just seeing all of that in writing has made me a tired girl! 🙂
Because I have been so busy, the two things that seem to have been easy for me to drop out of my daily schedule has been my meditation practice, and my daily exercise sessions. I am sure that is not helping my lack of sleeping/subconscious stress levels right now, so I have got to start making those two things more of a priority!
I will get on it!!
Back to my job, one of my favorite things about my current job, besides the awesome peeps I work with, is the fact that I am able to work 4 10-hour days. What this means for me, is that I get to have every Wednesday off! So, I trick myself by saying that every day I work is either a Thursday or a Friday, because that is what it feels like, which is a very good thing! but, it also means that I have a tendency to not remember what day it actually is! So, blah! blah! blah! It is Tuesday night, which means I get the entire day to work…errrr….I mean, play for myself all day tomorrow!! That is usually always a fun day, but ALWAYS a looooooong day!! 🙂
I am going to try and post a little something every day! Kind of a personal diary of how my efforts to build a successful creative business from the ground up! I am sure that there are others out there who are wanting to start a business of their own, and maybe I can, in some way, be a source of inspiration for others! Whether it be through mixed media, art journaling, the actual business side of business, I think that I would be thankful for that kind of insight from someone else going through what I am going through! That would be cool. So, I am going to create what I am looking for!
I realize that this is very long post, and it may not be interesting to anyone else but myself, but this is a new start for me! So, here is to documenting the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful, and the inspiring!!
Here is to creating a Beautiful Creative life!! 🙂
To have a different life, you have to live differently!