Creative Bootcamp!

My husband and I just spent a week wandering the East Coast, gaining some clarity and hopefully reshifting priorities a bit.  I even went through my schedule book and scheduled in exercise AND creative time.  I have a hard time leaving work, usually sneaking home around 8 pm because I'm giving a minute here, an hour here, laboring over paperwork and making one last phone call.  But with each compromise, I lose that minute with myself, an hour with my husband, the chance to make a phone call to a friend or spend some time with a book.  My clients are important; but so am I.  I HAVE to take care of myself.

And then, exciting, I decided to join this creative bootcamp!  I can't begin to say how thankful I am for this ... I'm normally the one coming up with activities, guiding and helping others be creative.  I am desperate for a creative boost, and am committed to this.  Another biggie for me is that I used the opportunity to share my blog for the first time to other people.  Holy jeez, that's scary.  But I want to share what I am doing, and I want to hold myself accountable.  And my blog helps me to sum things up for myself and get excited about making.  Plus, I've been learning and reading for quite awhile now, I think its time to share.  I spent so long making judgments on myself-as-artist, and have worked hard to get to a place where its not about quality of work but quality of expression.  As long as I'm tapped in and expressing myself, that's good for me and I'm glad to share.

Today, we sat on the beach and I sketched out some ideas going forward.  The first is being in control of my time as mentioned above.  I've scheduled Tuesday nights to do creative stuff, and I have some ideas of what I would like to do including finishing all my random projects, working on our wedding and honeymoon scrapbook, making baby things (is that jinxing?).  I am planning to run several art groups next fall, and want to set up the curriculum and experiment with methods.  I plan to make one artist card a week.  Finally, I've been watching the Week in the Life work done here, but I wasn't ready to work on the project then.  I'm strongly considering completing the project during my birthday week at the end of June.  I'm a big believer in being introspective during birthdays, and love the idea of having to be fully present (no pun intended, sorry). It would be cool to do every birthday.  While I was making my plans, it struck me that I haven't even started the bootcamp yet, and already the creativity is flowing.  I am ready; and I am ready for the changes that being tapped into creativity brings.