Oh how I wish I was good at art! I have been thinking about this muchly this week. Firstly I am in touch with an old school friend again through the wonderful world of Facebook and how I always envied her talent when we were at school together... guess what? She hasn't lost it! You can check out her portraits and landscapes on her Facebook page at SAS Art and Design. I have another good friend who was always so whacky with her art and how I loved it! She hasn't got a FB page but I am about to message her to tell her to get one!
Anyway, I am not good at art. I am hugely creative and wildly expressive and mostly quite over the top in my approach to art.
I love doing crafts of all sorts and a particular favourite at the moment is polymer clay. But I have to be honest I am pretty hopeless at all of it. Now in the past this has quite put me off. Doing something not very well or even badly is quite hard for most of us. We are very critical of ourselves and often expect far too much.
I had a major breakthrough with the craft side of things when I discovered card making and then polymer clay. Sadly, no talent for either... I live in hope.... but oh how I love doing them. I came to accept that enjoying the time and immersing myself in the craft and loving the space I was in at that time was a good enough reason to do it. The end result is really not important. I don't fool myself by thinking that what I have produced is in any way good in comparison to the people I know who are so talented but I can look at it and like it and feel almost proud of it. I enjoyed creating it and therefore I love it in the way only a 'parent' can, with all it's faults!!
I therefore without shame of the pretentiousness of it. Obtained a few years ago a huge 12' x 12' summerhouse and have allowed it to be a creative space (every now and then it manages to accumulate all the junk and needs to be saved). I have all the craft 'junk' a person could want, beads and stencils and card making and polymer clay. Everything needed to express myself in an arty kind of way.
I have been reading a book lately called The Vision Board by Joyce Schwarz. A lovely book that explains this wonderful way of manifesting your future through the creative expression and creation of a vision board. By spending your time sitting and making something that says 'how you feel' or 'what you want for yourself' or maybe even 'what you expect from yourself' it does help to find a focus and when we have focus we are much more able to achieve.
View from the summer house
I have long been into The Secret and all forms of the law of attraction, namely that what we 'put out there' into the universe is what we will get back into our lives. It seems such a simple concept to me. We all know that if we go out smiling into our day that we generally have a better day, as everyone responds to us in a certain way. A bad day will often get worse because of the doom and gloom that we are carrying around with us. It seems to me that creation of a vision board is a wonderful combination of my love of craft, my love of life and my belief in manifesting.
Here are some pictures of my first vision board. I am not sure I can explain what every part of it means because it might get rather personal, but you are free to make wild guesses. But I wanted it to say partly who I am now, partly what I want for my future and partly how I aim to get there. I will be making more vision boards and using them to help me focus on different aspects of my life and the goals and challenges that I set myself.
Also decided to have a Vision Board Party and invite friends into my summer house for an evening of crafting fun. I have had a craft party before and I think it surprised people who have long given up on playing with clay and sticking things, how much they really got into it. Put it this way, I have never known five women together be so focused and SILENT!
(Yes, I know muchly isn't a word, but it should be!)
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