Yes, sometimes the creative process is as rudimentary as scribbling on notebook paper with a Bic pen, using a hot chocolate canister's lid to draw the perfect sized circle, and laying it all out on the coffee table. Thing is, many times you just have to strike while the iron's hot or you lose the idea, drive, ambition, whatever. I can't tell you how many times a great idea has vanished forever on me simply because I didn't stop what I was doing and take a note, or make a sketch for later.
I suppose now is when I'm supposed to mention the new year, clean slates, fresh starts, and dare I say it ... resolutions? Well, I'm not going to. I think especially in our society, we're quite in love with this idea of the do-over, possibly even greater my generation raised on video games equipped with reset buttons. Don't like how things are going, hey, start over! While I do embrace a little of that "philosophy" it's not exactly how things go, now is it? I like the idea of not allowing yourself to be stuck in a rut, and if you find yourself in one, you can get yourself out of one, and start along a new path, but it's not so cut and dry as pressing the reset button. You bring along all of your old ideas, and actions, and behaviors that got you there in the first place unless you resolve to change those as well as your direction. What's that they say? You can't run away from yourself. I believe it to be true. So with that in mind, no resolutions were made this year, just the continuation of what I believe I should be living everyday, which is to strive to be the best version of myself I can every single day. It sounds really lovely to say, but means nothing at all if I don't actually put it into practice, as with most things.
Back to the coffee table with this irregular girl to her fast moving, small scale operation of putting the craft back in Craft, quite possibly the dirtiest of words in the world of creating ... you know, ever since someone decided sugar cubes and glue were meant to be used together, and that popsicle sticks were a legitimate medium. Viva la Revolución!
Until next time,
xoxo
"Be kind. Everyone you meet is carrying a heavy burden."
-Ian MacLaren
