Inspiring Evening
Tonight at our coven meeting, we began work on a coven "creativity/inspiration" book. It's part scrap book, part artistic experiment, part....who knows what. All I can say is that it was entirely inspiring to me. I've collected scrapbook papers and supplies, always wanting and meaning to dive in and do it, but I never really have. I've done some cards using scrapping techniques, but I've never actually done a page. Until today. I sat down to do my own page with no real preconceived notion. I started going through my papers and was excited about what I was finding, things I'd long forgotten about. My base paper looks like that industrial metal flooring with the cross hatch marks raised to prevent skidding. But I'm overlaying on it cutouts from a floral paper, the same flowers but in small and large sizes. I've also got some plain grain, plain creme, plain taupe and a textured gray paper that I've used, all mats for a small image of paintbrushes that eveningstarr cut out for me from the back of a calendar. I also cut out a very folksy drawing of a girl, who reminds me of both me and the Goddess at the same time. I picked it to remind me of the Goddess within, the Creative Force. I didn't get to finish the page tonight, though. I spent so much time meticulously cutting flowers, and the large folksy girl, then matting it and cutting the mat, that I never actually glued anything down to my base. Ah, well...in time. I'm thinking of adding my mission statement to the page, and possibly a reminder of a promise I made to myself two weeks ago at coven:
I am done with making commitments to people that will stress me out unnecessarily, just to be nice. I'm setting clearer boundaries for myself so that I have the breathing room I need to do "whatevah must be done". It's been really good for me so far.
But back to the inspiration. I thought of several more pages I want to add to our collective book, inspired in part by those around me, and many of which are surprises just for them. I can't wait!
But then, on my drive home, the best part of all happened. My creative juices were flowing and I thought of several large art projects that I would love to do. I will jot those down for myself in a private entry so that I can develop those ideas further. Need to get them down before the ideas fade. So, so exciting! I had had one idea a while back for a series of large installation pieces, but that was the last big idea I'd had and was too expensive for me to do, although I am still working on some components of it. These are much more managable and can be done with equipment and supplies I may already have or are easily accessible. It's just going to take a little time. And I would like to do duplicates of some of them so that I can give a version of them as gifts.
So thank you to my wonderful magickal family for your inspiration! I cannot wait to sit down with our creation and soak in what you have created individually.
A very creative day all around, I'd say.
I am done with making commitments to people that will stress me out unnecessarily, just to be nice. I'm setting clearer boundaries for myself so that I have the breathing room I need to do "whatevah must be done". It's been really good for me so far.
But back to the inspiration. I thought of several more pages I want to add to our collective book, inspired in part by those around me, and many of which are surprises just for them. I can't wait!
But then, on my drive home, the best part of all happened. My creative juices were flowing and I thought of several large art projects that I would love to do. I will jot those down for myself in a private entry so that I can develop those ideas further. Need to get them down before the ideas fade. So, so exciting! I had had one idea a while back for a series of large installation pieces, but that was the last big idea I'd had and was too expensive for me to do, although I am still working on some components of it. These are much more managable and can be done with equipment and supplies I may already have or are easily accessible. It's just going to take a little time. And I would like to do duplicates of some of them so that I can give a version of them as gifts.
So thank you to my wonderful magickal family for your inspiration! I cannot wait to sit down with our creation and soak in what you have created individually.
A very creative day all around, I'd say.