The Path

Monday when I arrived at seminar I decided to take a walk around the resort to try to clear my head,  It's so scenic here and a wonderful place to try to clear out the mind.  While I was walking a found a path and decided to take to where ever it would lead me.  I figured the worse thing that could happen is that I would get lost.  While I was walking this path I decided to just go whatever direction that felt good to me.  The path was in the woods and even though everything is already turning into fall colors, it was a wonderful  little path.  I didn't get lost, but then again Gilles does insist that I have a built in GPS system. 

While I was walking I decided that the path is like my life right now.  I'm going to follow the path and it'll lead me into the direction.  Whatever happens, happens and it'll be the best for me,

Which leads into today's quote:  Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Getting ready to leave

Today I get the grand job of getting ready to leave for my seminar for work.  I think I'd rather be spending the time in my sewing studio rearranging everything and finding room for my stash.  Working in a fabric store for the past 11 years has created a very large stash of fabric.  Of course, everything I bought had a purpose when I bought it!!  Lately my stash has increased because I wanted to get things before the store closed and most of it is for Dragonfly Myst Designs.  I still need to make that first sale, but I'm sure when I get it, my company will be successful.

My stash has worked it's way out of the sewing studio and into the spare bedroom.  I think when I get back from seminar, my stash will have to be sewn up into products and put on sale.  If I can get the sewing studio under control then I can head down to the scrapbooking studio and get that under control.

It doesn't help when you wake up in the middle of the night, thinking "Oh, I need this so I can make that.  I'm sure that this will sell."  These ideas are usually some of my best ideas.  Sometimes my mind is going in 50 different directions at one time and I want to do it all at the same time.  Just this morning I remembered some fabric I had bought that I wanted to use for something for a belly dance costume and some trim we have/had at the store.  I want to had the trim to the fabric and some coins to make a belly dance hip scarf.  So before I head out to seminar, I'm going to run to the store and get the trim I need so I can work on the belt before I leave and during my free time the next few days.

This all leads to today's quote: Creative minds are rarely tidy.

My Creative Muse

A few years ago I was in an altered book email group where we took a journal and added a few quotes to the journal and altered the journal with the quotes.  It was a great swap and quite fun.  I had developed a love for quotes many years before, but this had me looking for quotes and playing with them to make them into art.  I have learned over the years that when things get a little rough I look for quote to keep me strong.

With all the trouble I've been going though for the past year, I'm finding that I need to turn more to my creative muse to keep me strong.  Last night I found some of my favorite quotes and decided that I need to find one daily to keep in my thought for the day.  I have also decided that I need to keep that altered quote book by my side and add to it.

My biggest challenge is going to make sure I do this daily.  For the next 4 days I head out to a seminar for work and I'm in my final five weeks of having my job.

Today's quote is perhaps my favorite quote because I think it is the one that describes me to a T: 

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. --Cecil B. DeMille