Today: Being gentle with myself, figuring out strategies for studio email and sharing some new yarn!
Today’s Get Ready Music: 70’s #1 Hits
I believe in dreams.
I believe that little inkling in your heart is a dream seed answering the tug of life’s sunshine, aching to grow.
I believe that as you bring your dreams to life, they bring you to life too.
Your dreams are inviting you to be braver, sing louder, shine brighter.
As you give your dreams wings, so they will give you yours.
A Creative Living Activity for Dreamers: Today I invite you to create feathers for your dreams’ wings. Imagine each feather imbued with the magic that you know will help your dreams take flight. Today I know that my wings are ready for vision, positivity, showing up and taking action.
The Give Your Dream Wings Blog Hop is a peek inside the process of how inspiring people make the magic happen. We’ve got some of the internet’s most inspiring bloggers sharing how they give their dreams wings – what they do that supports, nurtures and encourages their tender dreams to come to life.
This is happening in celebration of the new e-course of the same name by Andrea Schroeder of the Creative Dream Incubator. The Give Your Dream Wings e-course shows you how to nurture and grow YOUR dream, for free, in only 10 minutes a day. You do not have to wait until you have more time or money! To find out about the free e-course, and to read the other (crazy inspiring!) posts in this Blog Hop.
What is “I Made This!”?: Each Monday here in the studio, I’ll invite you to share what you’ve made over the week before. It can be anything – a flower arrangement, a crocheted cap, a painting, a poem, a party, an outfit, a cake! Show what you made and tell us a bit about what the experience was like for you. What inspired you? What did you learn? How were you challenged? What did you love? And hey, if you want to share the inspiration, the pattern, the recipe, the kinds of supplies you used, we’ll all be the richer for it!
To Participate: Create an “I Made This!” post on your blog and add the direct link* in the Mr. Linky below. Be a sunbeam of love as you visit other makers, celebrating their creativity and sharing inspiration along the way. It would be great if you could also link back here as an invitation to other creative hearts to jump in and share. I’ve got a badge for you if you’d like to add it to your blog.
And please know, whatever you made doesn’t have to be perfect or beautiful or even finished – though it might be. I just want us to share what we’re creating with our hearts and with our hands and to remember how much fun it can be to say, “I made this!”
Let’s make this something wonderful!
*PS A direct link is when you share the address for the actual post instead of just your blog (e.g. http://jamieridlerstudios.ca/introducting-i-made-this-monday instead of just http://jamieridlerstudios.ca)
I’ve always found myself impatient with drawing. I felt impatient with my lack of skill. Impatient with the time it took. Impatient with my progress. Impatient with my results. Perhaps my impatience was rooted in my discomfort– my fear of drawing, really.
But recently I’ve been rediscovering the simple joy of making marks on paper – with pen, with pencil, with markers. I’ve been enjoying the sensuality of it, the feeling of movement across the page, the flow of curves, the sharpness of angles, the bursts of little shapes quickly done.
Time slows down when I draw. Perhaps that’s another reason why I didn’t like it before. I was afraid of slowness. Life’s too busy. Life’s too short for something slow.
But now I find drawing meditative. It’s a blessing to give my busy mind time to engage with shapes and lines, to wonder what will happen if I connect this point to that one, to discover that a triangle can become a windmill and a flower and a tree.
I’m giving myself permission to slow down, to breathe and to play. I’m enjoying drawing for the simple pleasure of it and that is more than enough.
I’m sharing this post as a part of I Made This! If you want to share something you made this week, come on by and join in!
Today: Mondays are a great time to cast forward into your week. What do you want to get done? How does that fit into your bigger plan for this month, for this season, for this year? How will that contribute to your body of work? Have you left yourself some wiggle room? These are the things I’m thinking about behind the scenes in the studio today.
Today’s Get Ready Music: Classical for Studying
When we feel insecure, when we put ourselves out there, when we have a dark day, it can be difficult to know our value. I want to share with you an inspiring story that has been in my heart for years, one that elegantly demonstrates our intrinsic, immutable value.
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Today: It’s Friday so time to celebrate what we’ve gotten done this week. Plus, I share another place you can find me behind the scenes!
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