Sarah’s Creative Journey

It's been over a year since I decided to reach out to a friend (other than my husband) to help keep me on track with setting art goals. Sounds easy, right? I have trouble keeping deadlines, so if I reach out to other people they can help hold me accountable! Except that's never how it works. I've always been accountable for myself. But now it's not for a grade. It's not to complete a lesson or specific project with standards set by someone else. I set the standards. I set the project. I have high standards and expectations of myself because I know what I can accomplish. I know that I can continue to push myself to learn more and to accomplish more. But now, there are no immediate consequences. No pass or fail grade. Nothing holding me back and nothing really pushing me forward. So how do I continue?  Because of this question, a lot of people have asked me if I love creating art. Of course I do! Otherwise I wouldn't be struggling this much to keep myself doin

This happens to be the first item on my list but I have not done these in any order. This just happened to be the first one I fully completed. I decided to sign up for a hot yoga class the night before Thanksgiving so I could feel less guilty about the amount of food I was going to consume on Thursday. Well, when I first got there, the whole classroom was only lit by strung lights and a couple of candles. It smelled really good too surprisingly-not too overwhelming either. The point was to help everyone focus on doing yoga for themselves and to not be self-conscious about it.   The class was challenging and I did enjoy it. However, had both positives and negatives to say about it: Positives: Loved being able to workout in semi-darkness and not worry as much about the people around me.   It never smelled like sweat. I think the mat covers were scented with something and the whole ventilation seemed to have some kind of diffuser spray to mask any smell of sweat and body odo

I haven't posted here in over six months, but things come and go, and sometimes go around in circles. Still love the idea I posted about last January, and might consider still doing it, but in the meantime, I will just keep logging my thoughts and creative journey before going into specific questions. Each year brings more and more learning, and sometimes learning comes from doing nothing...  then maybe regretting it later. But the fact still remains that I want to keep putting myself out there. I will not give up no matter how silly the ideas may be. Some may stick and some may not, but I am moving on and still trying to be inspired everyday.  So to new beginnings, everyday, may they be abundant and clumsy!