Category: Creativity

Today I saw a card while I was Christmas shopping that looked so great.  The store keeper was talking about art, and my husband mentioned that I was an artist, so the shopkeeper said “oh, what do you do?”  I showed her my website and she told me I should send my work to papaya.  So I did.

So that is the beginning. After looking at the site I was in love with them and wanted to be doing what they were doing and I got this idea:  “well, just do it.”

So because one thing led to another, who knows what else will happen.  I will keep you posted but in the meantime you should check out their website.  It is pretty amazing.

Every single thing we do spills over into the rest of our day. An argument can spill over into a car wreck later in the day or a wrong calculation in our figuring. Which could lead to a bounced check and a person who got bounced on and they might start bouncing because you bounced them and then they might get distraught and yell at the kids and said kids might smack another kid and then there is this lawsuit….

Or you can start the day out praying for help to be a blessing to someone and then you are and maybe someone was so helped by you that they decide to live and not die. Spillover.

Here is my blessing to you this day. Go forth and think on these things.

photo from this person.

I have a studio in a dress shop, How fortunate for me to have a tiny house studio. It is everything I need in about 200 feet. I have a work space and a living room to look at the art in. I have a window that looks into the dress shop. I have water to wash my brushes. I have walls and a table and a couch and lights. I have paint all lined up neatly in the studio. I have everything I need to be anything I want.

What I like most is that people come by and look at what I am doing. I like that. They inspire me. The clothes and the shop inspire me. The owner of the dress shop is an inspiration to me.

I feel compelled to think better thoughts when I am not totally alone. Artists are strange creatures. we need lots of things to function. I need constant stream of ideas and I need someone to say ohhh ahhh when they look at what I have done.

I feel compelled to do something daring and wonderful. and unusual. of course unusual, or why bother. Because of the dress shop I want to do something different for awhile. My advice is do your usual work in a new place and see what happens.

Everyone knows we are only limited by our imagination to do what we want to do. Well we all know it in theory. but in practice most people do know believe that really really for one second. We see road blocks immediately. Why do we see walls and not doors? The doors are always there. The doors are always there. The doors are always there. You just have to stop looking for walls and start looking for doors.

I love tiny houses. What I love is that you have only a few feet to try and build a livable house. You have to look for doors and windows and floor space where at first you see no way to make it work. I look at what people come up with in usually a space that is less than 10 feet by 10 feet. Very small.

Tiny house designers have to make space out of nothing. that is what you have to do with every obstacle in your life. Pretend it is a tiny house and look for space that you have not seen before. The space is there all along but you just have to see it. and sometimes just the process of believing that it is there is enough to see it. You have to make it be there first. YOU have to demand it to be there. You are like the wind, you have to blow your walls down and open the door.