Yes, it's true. I love to go to my special "HAPPY PLACE". When I'm HAPPY/when I'm SAD/when I'm FRUSTRATED/when I'm BORED/when I'm LONELY. And where is this incredible place, you ask????
MY CRAFT ROOM!!!!!!!!
Yes, this is where I can be ME. Sometimes when I get up there I am going for a PURPOSE. Like: to make a card for someone. OR to work on an album. OR to just sit on the floor in the room and look around me at all the paper/pens/glues/glitter/un-made books.
And this is where I get INSPIRATION.
I'm not an artist. I'm not one who can create something out of nothing. (Only God can really do that, anyway, right?)? But, what I can do is use mediums made for making things and create my own stuff. I love my HAPPY PLACE and there are days that I want to stay in there all day long. I will often run downstairs and make a sandwich and head right back upstairs.
Other days I feel quite "bleh" about it and have to lie on the floor and just BE.
I pray on that floor.
I spill glitter on that floor.
I cut while sitting on that floor.
I talk on the phone with the cell phone to my ear while gluing and stamping. ON THAT FLOOR.
Yes, I have a comfy chair up there. But, I can't usually work while sitting in it. I usually have to get on the floor and lay out all my ideas. If it's a scrapbook, I put out layouts.
If it's a card, I think about who I am making it for and why they mean something to me in my life.
If I make something for someone I do not know, I pray that they will see past my imperfections and lack of artist ability and see the love with which I have made that item.
Yes, I love my HAPPY PLACE.
And with the colder air coming this afternoon? Looks like my HAPPY PLACE will only get happier.
MY CRAFT ROOM!!!!!!!!
Yes, this is where I can be ME. Sometimes when I get up there I am going for a PURPOSE. Like: to make a card for someone. OR to work on an album. OR to just sit on the floor in the room and look around me at all the paper/pens/glues/glitter/un-made books.
And this is where I get INSPIRATION.
I'm not an artist. I'm not one who can create something out of nothing. (Only God can really do that, anyway, right?)? But, what I can do is use mediums made for making things and create my own stuff. I love my HAPPY PLACE and there are days that I want to stay in there all day long. I will often run downstairs and make a sandwich and head right back upstairs.
Other days I feel quite "bleh" about it and have to lie on the floor and just BE.
I pray on that floor.
I spill glitter on that floor.
I cut while sitting on that floor.
I talk on the phone with the cell phone to my ear while gluing and stamping. ON THAT FLOOR.
Yes, I have a comfy chair up there. But, I can't usually work while sitting in it. I usually have to get on the floor and lay out all my ideas. If it's a scrapbook, I put out layouts.
If it's a card, I think about who I am making it for and why they mean something to me in my life.
If I make something for someone I do not know, I pray that they will see past my imperfections and lack of artist ability and see the love with which I have made that item.
Yes, I love my HAPPY PLACE.
And with the colder air coming this afternoon? Looks like my HAPPY PLACE will only get happier.