Thursday, September 30, 2010

sticking with it

                                                        "Retro Girl" - Watercolours sometimes take a looooong time to 
                                          do, and it's hard to correct mistakes. But you learn and have fun at the same time.

It's crazy, as soon as I created this space, I wanted to make another one. For me it's all about the process. The end result is important I guess, but I really like to create. So, sticking to this will be a whole other exercise. I have more fun looking at what other people are doing. Blogs are like snowflakes. They are as varied and diverse as the people who created them. And some of them are well-established, they have substance, you really feel like you have arrived somewhere, landed someplace tangible. This takes time, it doesn't happen overnight. Generally a lot of good stuff doesn't happen instantly.

So for today, my lesson is not only to stick with this blog, but to spend more time on the things that I enjoy doing, and do them well. And to pay attention to the opportunities that emerge from the process.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

treading water

                                                     "don't be koi"- handpainted table

I'm just jumping in here with my very first blog. Quite early on in life my brother and I learned how to swim. It was a must in our family. And my younger sister was the best fish of us all. Still is. Anyway, fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly. It may sound simple, but just doing what you are meant to do can sometimes be less than easy at times.