364 days of creative living

My last blog talked about a need to be my own true self and a need to be creative. I have determined to live 365 creative days and the reason for that is...I want to see if my life changes because of this experiment. My theory is, how could it not.

I also want to find out if it is possible to make a living throughout the next 364 days (I started yesterday), and I want to do it without stressing out at the same time. In other words I want this to be a period of joy, creative living, and have fun while I am at it.

At this time I am employed, healthy, and active. My family is grown and I can devote my free time to this project, without being concerned that I am going broke at the same time, which is a new feeling for me. Usually when I follow my dream I am unemployed, broke and slightly confused. I know I want to make a living doing what I do, but what exactly is that and how do I do it? Not this time. This time I intend to set out on my creative journey, be responsible to others and myself, and take my time doing it. I want to learn how to take my natural talents, use the right methods of applying them and combine them to make my dream come true. For the first time in all my life I think I have a real goal and a plan for achieving that goal.

I have been reading many books and taking all the information in that I can. I believe in the universe and the law of attraction. Now, applying that law will be part of the journey. I have also read about letting go of excuses, I plan to apply that theory too. I am very excited about a book I just ordered after having gone to a web site I found in a magazine that resonated so deeply with me that I couldn't resist ordering the book. I would have liked to have taken the authors course, but it isn't possible at this time. I plan to use that book to work on this experiment and see what happens. I will talk about that more later.

Now I will tell you about my creative moment yesterday. I took my two cutie patooty dogs (Dali and Charlie) to the dog groomers yesterday. After months of trimming them myself, they were in dire need of a professional. It was a twenty minute drive there and then back. While I was in the office I looked around and found the usual dog supplies on shelves. They were all nice, and I didn't think much of it, until I was driving home, preparing for the next few errands on my list.

The dog beds at the shop....they were just dog beds nothing special. Nothing special just doesn't get it done for me. I like special, spectacular, lovely, awesome and unique. I started thinking about a design that popped into my head, that would be really nice and look great in my living room, which is where my dogs plop down at the end of the day. This got me thinking about a project my daughter and I had been working on, and in fact had bought fabric for just one day before. We were making a dog bed for her huge Newfoundland Bear of a dog. The pillow was about 1 and 1/2 yards long and about 1 yard wide. it was huge, but really nice when it was finished. We made a pillow form first, then a pillow cover that zipped making it possible to wash. Extra pillow covers could be made, which would make it very handy for my daughter to wash and keep his bed clean. We had so much fun making the bed, but here's a funny twist to the story. We made the bed at my house, and when it was done we threw this gigantic pillow on the floor (it was bright, colorful and luxurious and guess what else...practical which gives me pause to think creativity and practicality can go hand and hand,lesson number one) but the fun part was yet to come. The minute the pillow was on the floor my 3 year old grandson plopped down on it and just loved it. It was just the right size for him to lay on and watch tv. Then both my Llasa Apso (Dali) and my Shi Tzu (Charlie) piled on the pillow with them. They all loved it. I proclaimed it Dog, Bed and Beyond. We all laughed.

Now as I headed back home, while waiting for the dogs, I thought about that day, about dog bed designs. As soon as I got home I drew the design I saw in my head and sat it on the kitchen counter. Now that was day one of creative living. I won't discount the project, I will let things happen as they will, but for today, day 2. I am going to begin sewing that first pillow from that first design. I can hardly wait.
Beau Joli.