The little ritual of looking back after every month and acknowledging progress/accomplishments from the previous 4 weeks has been a surprisingly pressure-inducing self-imposed routine.

May was a great month for dragon boat practices, maternal visits, and birthday celebrations. In addition, May has been a month of many starts and few finishes in the studio... Below is a sampling... 

Sometimes things move along more than other times, and we just have to learn to be ok with it!!
Here's hoping for a better (or should I say 'more productive') upcoming month!

Nothing tempts me to be distracted from a goal more than a blue skyed day with pleasant temperatures. Make that a whole week and a half of great sunny warm days. Add to the mix a hammock, and a good book. Followed by a small pinch of a maternal visit, and a special birthday. . . I really had no chance.

Sure those things are true, but the REAL REASON for my sudden stopping of postings and creative updates is that I got scared. Sharing my work with the world is a big deal for me (and many other creatives), but pushing myself to market it and sell it, well that's a whole other thing.

I just posted the previous blog post, as it sat in the 'drafts' folder for 2 weeks! I didn't edit it or add anything to it... for some reason, the fact that it contained the etsy link, paralyzed me completely!! A million self-doubting voices (some with rather reasonable messages) vying for my attention. So today I pushed "publish live' without giving it another thought. I made sure it was not going to post the update either on FB or Twitter, but it is here on the blog. Chances are  --and I am crossing my fingers hard -- that nobody will see either of these, and that gives me a small measure of relief! 


Movement = Risk ... and I guess I am still learning to be brave in this area of my life. Cheers to pressing the 'publish live' button one more time: hooray!