Embrace Your Creativiy

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

What a great reminder on this Monday!

I encourage you to take this week and CREATE.

Don't worry about making something so extraordinary everyone will love it.

When I began art journaling 6 or 7 years ago I thought EVERYTHING I created had to be perfect.

That mind-set paralyzed me.

Instead of creating...

I only THOUGHT about creating.

I took Soul Restoration from Melody Ross and slowly my mind began to change.

I began to realize that I was unique.

My thoughts are unique.

My ART is unique.

The most important thing we can learn when it comes to creating is to just DO IT.

Your art

my art

is just for 

US.

Why do we feel the need to make sure others like it, too?

Throughout the past few years I have come to 

EMBRACE my messy art.

I used to not use my vintage girls...

even though they are what spoke to me the most.

I was always more creative and happy when I used them in my work.

But one day I read a comment from a woman who said that using vintage women images was overdone. She didn't like them and was sick of seeing them.

So 

I 

quit.

That's when my inspiration just 

dried 

up.

I didn't set foot in my studio for months at a time.

Slowly

over time

I made my way back...

creating backgrounds

and pages with Words.

The more I posted my work again and the more

I created challenges in my Mind.Body.Soul group

the more I began using my vintage girls again.

Now I don't even think about it.

I have EMBRACED my grungy, messy style

using my sweet, old-time girls...

I am 

Happy.

I am in my studio almost daily.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

Lil Wayne

Be 

YOU.

Never compromise.