Creativity Surge

Sometimes, your ambition dwindles while the remnants of your morning tea drain down the sink. Sometimes, your brain just can't shut off with ideas to pursue and plans to make. When the surges strike, it's imperative to jot an idea list, and get your thoughts out before they flit away.

So here are my random ideas for some creative projects in the pipeline:

• Developing Etsy shop and getting jewelry business thriving again (website, cards, local shops, then craft fairs, parties, catalog). Ideas for incorporating old pieces (brooches especially) into new ones.
•  Incorporate blog into/with the jewelry website
• Blog to morph into a compilation of each of our different blogs with the central theme of "the sweet life" / "gratitude in the everyday" (foci will be family/friends/get-togethers/making time "out of the clouds" (JT/Adam guest post about travel/friends/community); jewelry/gifts/crafts; living well/books "read well live well"; gardening life "where are we growing"- post on "weekly weeding" in life as in the garden; food "foodie futz around"- healthy and indulgence; pups "I mustache you a question")
• A "Tribal Times" blog with features by each of us Tribal girls- my lady loves!
• Children's book featuring Poco and Xena (ideally with Riha as illustrator- but still awaiting commitment on that one).
• Continue work on "the novel"

I've been thinking a lot about juxtaposition, dichotomy, duality and balance. John and I had a great talk last night about a person's innate and competing desires and drives, and the frustrations these can cause as you try to reconcile them in your thoughts and actions.

Instead of remaining frustrated, I am trying to capitalize on the momentum. I want to harness the often spinning-off tendency of some of my basest proclivities, and focus the competing energies towards a mutual goal of creative inspiration. Why can't I have a multi-pronged endeavor that captures the essence of who I strive to be?

I was particularly inspired by the blog abeautifulmess.com. Elsie and Emma derive a focused theme from varying interests, which leads to an abundance of inspiration evident throughout the pages of their blog.

I'm surging with creative energy!