Comments on: {creating dreams come true} being present

By: abccreativity

abccreativity — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:22:55 +0000

oh thank you scylliane.

bertie that is so beautiful. thank you. what a beautiful image you are going to create.

By: bertie

bertie — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:27:31 +0000

Dear Andrea,
I can relate to your pain as I lost my parents within one year of eachother and was so full of grief. I just want to say that one of the gift’s life gave me through that experience was the knowledge of how supremely blessed I was to love and be loved so deeply as to feel the grief so. The depth of grief is a mirror to the depth of love. It is a sign of a well lived relationship and is to be celebrated…that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt..it is to me, a beautiful rose that is handed to me…the rose has some thorns and even though they may sting me and I bleed, I still can appreciate the wonderful qualities and blessing that the rose brings me. I think I will paint this image into life!

By: Scylliane

Scylliane — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:58:48 +0000

I hope you feel better now Andrea. Today I just focused on my joy and hope, art-journaling about the theme :
“Every Day Opens a Swirl of Possibilities”, you can see the page here :
http://eveil-creatif.over-blog.com/article-journal-creatif-celebrer-la-joie-50524616.html

thank you so much for the course

By: abccreativity

abccreativity — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:47:52 +0000

thanks pink!

hello lynn. i’m sending you calm centered support in helping you focus. and i must say i really love this visualization you did about your illustrations: http://redheadedstepchildblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/visualizing-my-goal.html

maybe spending some time sitting with that each day will help you to stay focused. you can also use it with the visualization meditation i made here: http://www.abccreativity.com/2010/02/07/creating-dreams-come-true-seeing-your-dream-come-true/

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:25:16 +0000

I am in the same state of mind Ginny is in. I have a lot of different balls in the air and am trying to focus on what’s really important to me right now.

By: pink

pink — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:28:45 +0000

Thanks, Andrea!

Ginny, have you seen the link to Julie Stuart’s Eggs of Possibility that Andrea posted on her FaceBook? http://www.makingideasvisible.com/blog/visioning/the-eggs-of-possibility/comment-page-1/#comment-429 I love the way she describes having the eggs on her desk, checking in with them, and waiting for them to hatch at the appropriate time. Maybe a project like that would help you think through your choices? It sounds like you have very exciting projects in the works!

By: abccreativity

abccreativity — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:47:56 +0000

(((pink))) sending gentleness and support your way. while i know it’s really difficult it also sounds like you are coming into a place of great power. and i love the online brainstorm party on your blog and encourage everyone else to join in: http://pinkgargoyles.blogspot.com/2010/04/brainstorm-party-blog-post-1.html

ginny i do hear you. in terms of being present – maybe there can be a message or information in the overwhelm. i am going to write some stuff for creating dreams come true about tuning into our hearts for direction and guidance. our hearts know which directions to go in and which paths to put aside. it’s true that we only have so much time and energy and saying no to some things means saying yes to others. i think you’ve really got it when you said “I need to really, really focus and figure out what is it I want MOST right now.”

By: Ginny Baker

Ginny Baker — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:26:14 +0000

Those smiley faces were meant to be unhappy faces by the way. LOL Those are not things I’m smiling about at the moment!

By: Ginny Baker

Ginny Baker — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:24:44 +0000

I’m beginning to feel pulled in too many different directions. :o( I can’t keep up with my art blog, my facebook fan page, the facebook clay group I started, my website, AND create art every day, build that portfolio, learn about illustrating, learn about art licensing, and create art for both and pursue opportunities in both, oh plus continue to write – which I still really want to do, etc.!

I’ve been primarily a clay artist for the past 20+ years, and one of my seeds of income has been the clay dog jewelry and figurines I’ve sold on ebay for the past 10 years. For several years, I worked as a freelance clay artist for the craft industry doing projects for books and magazines. I’ve been contacted by the clay company I used to do freelance work for, and I would really love to get back into doing how-to projects for them again, too. Would love to do another how-to clay book. I also would love to break into illustrating children’s books with my clay illustrations. But I’d also love to license my art, and the clay doesn’t lend itself well to that endeavor, so that means working on drawing and painting art for that area. BUT, I also rediscovered writing a year or two ago, have been writing a romance and I LOVE the writing too, and don’t want to give that up. See my dilemma here? LOL

This was the reason I didn’t want to list 100 dreams, LOL. I have enough trouble going after the dozen or so I DID list!

It’s like I get things going smoothly in one area, but then I focus too long in another, and the first area loses whatever ground I’ve gained. I still haven’t figured out how to keep all the balls in the air at the same time. Yet we’re constantly told how important it is for an artist who wants to be a WORKING artist, to have that blog, and to network, and blah blah blah. Well, my blog is suffering big time and I’m getting nowhere in building that following. So maybe it’s time to narrow down the dream pursuits a bit. I need to really, really focus and figure out what is it I want MOST right now. Because I honestly don’t think I’ll get where I want to go if I don’t pinpoint my focus in one or two areas. :o(

Still sending loving thoughts and hugs your way, Andrea.

By: pink

pink — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:26:51 +0000

This was just what I needed to hear this week as well. Major changes are in the wind, and as I have been contemplating them, I’ve realized that because of a series of accidents and deaths, I’ve been in crisis mode for about ten years. The last one (my closest friend’s divorce) was last summer, but it turns out that I’ve forgotten how to get out of crisis mode. I’ve also had to “just keep going” through it all, and have never truly processed any of it. I have a nice chunk of time off due me, and I think I need to spend some time remembering, mourning losses, and allowing myself to feel what I feel and cry as many tears as necessary to get to the place of moving on.

And speaking of those major changes — I’m having a brainstorm party on my blog, and you’re all invited. http://pinkgargoyles.blogspot.com/2010/04/brainstorm-party-blog-post-1.html