Spring Cleaning...

Do you ever have left over bits and pieces from previous projects? What am I talking about, we all do, right... Well I had this canvas that I had painted on and just really didn't like the outcome. It had been sitting around for YEARS in the closet making me sick everytime I saw it so I finally put it to use. I took some fabric I had laying around (leftover from another project...) and covered the exsisting paint. Now it's a completely blank canvas again! I also had a bunch of leftover letters of sorts from other various projects so I decided to turn to a favorite song of mine (Take This Bread by The Felice Brothers) and put some lyrics on it. After some paint and some glue, this is my outcome! (And I got to clean out my closet a wee bit!)

This next project was an attempt to dwindle my recycle/find a use for pile. I get a weekly ad from a certain chain pharamcy and it is insane how much paper they use... I stockpile junk mail like that to either recycle or use (for paper flowers, wrapping paper, ect.) and my pile was getting rather large. I had also been wanting some sort of yarn basket but didn't want to spend a lot of dollars on one. It finally dawned on me to put those ads to work! I took those ads and rolled them up into a sort of paper yarn and started spiraling and gluing. After much twisting and gluing I ended up with a pretty awesome basket. And for just the price of hot glue!

 

That's all for now, I'll post some more of these projects soon!

Challenge Time!

I have a bad habit of letting my fear get the best of me. Weather it be fear of the unknown, fear of judgement, fear of imperfections, or just plain fear. I ALWAYS let it win. I try to make big jumps to correct this but that always results in failure. So now I am challenging myself to take baby steps to beat The Fear.

My first step is simply to remeber where my inspirations come from. So let's talk about the people that inspire me. Bob Fosse, Twyla Tharp, Isadora Duncan, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Vonnegut, Tim Burton, Charles Schultz, Audrey Hepburn, Gillian Welch. While these are just a few, I think it's enough to prove my point. Each of these people is either a)unconventional, b)child-like, or c)both. If I look up to these people because of these qualities, then I shouldn't view them as imperfections in myself.

My second step is to give myself 15 minutes of "No Judgement Allowed" craft time every day and 1 hour of "No Fear" goal time a week. In these times, I will ban negitive feelings in order to help myself accomplish more. I'm hoping that I will be able to dream about my goals (short- and long-term) while remembering that it is important to keep goals, even if they change.

That's it. I said baby steps didn't I?