Hi everyone!
As I start day 2 of “100 Days of Making” my thoughts drift
back to the little run down cottage that I showed you in yesterday’s post. I can’t help but think that it is the
hopeless romantic within me that can’t help but look back at that little run
down beauty and truly feel that “a dream is a wish your heart makes.” What I have learned through time is that this
little beauty was merely a God wink for incredible things to come. Back then I had not yet heard of SQuire
Rushnell and his FABULOUS God Wink books.
I have seen God do some AMAZING things in my life, but finding that
little cottage in the woods was just the beginning.
Fast forward to 2010, when one sentence from a friend would
change my life with respect to my creativity. “You have got to check out the blog Notes From a Cottage Industry. She reminds me so
much of you.” At the time I did not even
know what a blog was, even though I taught young adults courses in computer
science, but blogging was not a topic one generally found in college curricula. Going to Tracey Buxton’s blog changed my
life. It exposed me to a world of
creatives that I had never known before.
Though she lived on the west coast and I lived in the heart of the
south, our stories and life experiences, our design tastes and love of creating
led to a connection. Her blog would
become a stepping stone, introducing me to others. I was inspired, because in seeing their
creativity come to light on the World Wide Web, it began to give this creative
wings to explore what once I had only dreamed of doing. It was also at this time that I had
discovered When God Winks at You, so
I was keenly aware that this was no coincidence, God was indeed winking at me.
As I visited the blogs I began to pray, I began to seek and
ask myself what I wanted to call my creative presence in the world, and it was
through this quite time of reflection and prayer that the name Curiosity
Cottage came to me. Curiosity Cottage is
indeed my place to explore my curiosity of life because I have been doing this
for as long as I can remember.
I began to read and study other blogs drawing upon my
technical skills and combining them with my creative skills. What I learned along the way is that
technology and creativity really are a match made in heaven. Hey, it is February after all, so to find two
things that love each other and work so well together seems only fitting.
To view other sites and study how they put together
everything from their page design; to the camera’s they use to photograph their
images; and the software that they use for their image editing have all been a
part of my creative process. Have there
been road blocks and detours, most certainly yes. Have these bumps in the road hampered my
creativity? Well sometimes life makes us
put things on hold, but ultimately the bumps and bruises in life are actually
what enable us to have a deeper appreciation of life. They help mold us and make us – these places
on the maps of our life shape us into the creatives that we become.
Going from point A to point B sometimes just takes us a
little longer than we originally expected.
The key is to take a deep breath and just enjoy the ride. Many years ago I had a dream & now it is time for that dream to become a reality. I’ll see you tomorrow!!
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