I am a wife, mother, artist, and teacher. I am happiest when I am making, creating, developing, designing, or organizing something. An even more fulfilling scenario is when I can make something that encourages or inspires someone else. Secretly, I am also an aspiring chef and most days imagine that I am in the "Chopped" kitchen when cooking dinner. Chicken, old rice, eggs, and leeks... "you have thirty minutes and your time starts NOW."
Don't be fooled though by my seemingly spontaneous nature when it comes to the "basket ingredients". I am a planner. Having plans makes me happy. I make lists so that I can cross things off the list. Everyone who truly knows me is now either smiling knowingly or rolling their eyes and sighing. With those of my friends who are annoyed by planners, I try very hard to strategically plan to be spontaneous.
Most of the time plans are helpful. In the case of website/blog design they are necessary. My plan is that by writing here, in this space, I will be more intentional, reflective and thoughtful about my parenting, my art, and my teaching. I'm also excited to share art lesson plans, project ideas, recipes, and in the near future have a place to offer my own artwork for sale. My hope is that through this blog (even in the process of its' development) I might encourage, inspire, and teach you... to discover your own methods of creativity. In the busy day to day life of raising small children, my own need to "create" is often met in unlikely ways. Here, I will tell those stories. I will probably write about my own shortcomings as well as moments of awesomeness. I will always be honest, but I won't always share everything.
My creative source is THE Creator, God who made the heavens and the earth. I will, very likely, talk about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit a lot. This is because I attribute my creative nature (and pretty much everything else) to Him. Because my life is His, I try to ask God often (in prayer) what He thinks about "this" or "that"... even the little things. I consider myself to be pretty "down-to-earth"... I believe that God cares about the every day, normal things, because He cares about us.
Thank you for taking the time to read, reflect, and share this space with me.