Creating

I have been really thinking about creating and why I do and don't create.


(Helen Frankenthaler, color field painter)

A quote:

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

An inspiring story (I posted this once on my old blog, but I love it a lot so here goes):

Joanna Goddard, Blogger/Writer, A Cup of Jo

"When I was in my early 20s, I felt unmoored. After college, I moved to New York City by myself. My apartment had mice, I was very single, and I was so broke that I would skip getting tomatoes on my bagel because they cost fifty cents extra. I was trying to have my Mary Tyler Moore moment, but wasn’t sure how. Was this it?

"Then, one day, I magically stumbled upon the best advice I’d ever heard. In a blog interview, photographer Stephanie Congdon Barnes said: 'You can have the life you want.' It was just the encouragement I needed. You can create the life you want. You can figure out what exactly that means to you, and instead of getting caught up in an imagined rat race, you can work hard, grow in your career, spend time with your family, ride your bike by the river, eat too much spaghetti, have friends over for wine and cheese, go on vacation and take funny photos… I suddenly felt like it was possible. I could carve out the life I wanted. Ten years later, I remember those beautiful words almost every day."

Some projects:

Blake and I have been slowly getting our little house decorated and furnished. We got this Ikea couch on craigslist for $35 and I found some cheap fabric and recovered the cushions. I think I liked the fabric better in theory, and may re-cover them with something new later in the year.



Some family portraits I worked on while taking on-line driving school. I made one of myself too, but I need to rework it. The cat is a 100% rip off of an Andy Warhol drawing I love.


Working on a wedding dress for one of Blake's childhood friends- SCARY!