Inspiration!

This is a wonderful essay, and speaks to the creative spirit in all of us...

Dirt, dirt, dirt...

Today I moved dirt, nothing else really. Nothing creative, artsy or even fun...

You see, we have this very under utilized storage shed, complete with power and water. But it has never had a floor in it, just dirt. It started out as a goat shed, so I guess you could say I spent the day shoveling poo. Ancient poo. So old that it doesn't smell bad, just smells like dirt.

 So I came up with the idea to put a floor in it. The shed I mean. So I could use it as a wood shop, for building frames, benches, birdhouses, what ever...

  Little did I know, to build a floor, you need floor joists, actually, I did know this, but I didn't know we would have to dig down 12" in order to install them...

  Because the building has four walls, all we could do was bring in a wheelbarrow, and fill it up shovel by shovel and haul it away to the garden. (I wonder if the dirt would grow veggies well next year, it is certainly composted after all this time!) So we dug out all this dirt, and drilled into the concrete perimeter to attach ledger boards. One of the walls was calcified and porous, it wouldn't hold the anchor bolts. We will have the pour footers underneath. We now have half the joists installed, and plan to get the others in tomorrow. Sometime in and around cleaning out one of our rentals that was left a complete mess...

  In the mean time, I am sore, stiff and sore and hoping someone will come along and help me out of my chair so I can hobble off to bed and sleep a very long time...Night night, all...

How do you like me now?

As you can see, I have been learning many things about designing an attractive blog. Thank you so much to Kelly Rae Roberts for all her encouraging words, and thank you to the Background Fairy and the Prairie Fairy for the free lessons and graphics. It isn't perfect yet, but is a work in progress, like me! I must quote the Beatle's, "It's getting better all the time!"

Taking Flight

I finally made the tremendous decision to take Kelly Rae Roberts E-course: Flying Lessons. This was very difficult for me to do, I always have trouble spending money on myself, and the price seemed steep. I must say I am having a wonderful time, and learning a lot.
   The first couple days have been about facing your fears about starting a creative business. Identifying them, honoring then, and letting them go. I really didn't think they applied to me, but when I found myself crying over some of the prompts, I had to reconsider. Perhaps there is more of a self defeatist hiding inside than I ever knew, and it is about time she was dragged out, kicking and screaming, into the light. Perhaps, like the Wicked Witch of the West, I can splash her with a bit of water and she will melt into a powerless puddle of lost opportunity and sorrow. Then I can see what I am really capable of, and somehow find my voice again.
 Perhaps I can find it in my heart (and purse) to attend the Artfest Retreat next spring, something I have talked about for years, but never thought I could do...