Flowing

So I'm wandering around the house this afternoon, the groceries shopped for, the house as tidy as I'm up to making it...and I'm looking for something to do. Something to fill those isolated places of time where I can't sit still, where I can't stop thinking about everything, much less focus on one.

Piddly stuff. Petting a cat, leafing through a magazine. It's just not enough, not fulfilling. I went into the guest bedroom to play the keyboard. I lasted 5 minutes at most. Took a bath. Pet another cat, too early for bed and too late to feel like starting anything new.

So I took the first page of 'cultivate gratitude' and started gluing fringe and yarn on. I don't knit or crochet. Maybe to some of the ones of you who do, you can compare the comfortable rhythm of hook to yarn to my happily gluing pieces of one thing onto another thing. Paper, rock, scissors.

A lazy Monday evening, dinner in my belly and not ready for sleep. What am I doing with this blog? What do I want to do? I want to inspire others as I am blessed with inspiration. I want to show that one person who needs it most at this very moment the fun of counting, coloring, feeling and knowing the mystery of creativity as it binds one to finding their truest self.

Rollin' along with my sticky back notes!

No truck today. No bother to me, though, as yesterday - when I did have the truck - became just a little to busy for me. I was in the car a lot, between errands, meetings and a doctor's appointment. My brain was really busy, too, planning projects .

Today was a day to unleash my creativity, skills, and tac an unusual amount of sticky notes randomly around the house as I tried to balance the household tasks with fun stuff. I'm easily distracted wandering through the house, as it seems every spot has stuff to put away, clean, repair or create something new for. You'd think with a large studio space I'd have all my ongoing projects in there, but the studio isn't organized as I like it, so I have collected items from here and there and have many projects going on. Here are some of the things I have written on sticky notes:

- Oil door hinges
- Get buttons for D's shirt
- Get batting and ulpostery tacs from studio for pincushion and wall art/message board
- Eat healthy
- Call cat rescue
- Wig Jar (I'm using a large pickle jar to hold my hairbands, painting an abstract face on the front - it's a self-discovery activity which I'll explain more when it's finished)
- Deep Breathing
- Sewing projects: balance with housework, jobhunting
- Ch. 3 Meditation every morning for one week straight (keep going!)
- Read Ragamuffin book
- Bring sewing maching, tape measure, velcro, notions to clubhouse.

What I find amusing is that as silly as it looks with simple reminders posted on the cupboards, the fridge, the door, the washing machine, this is a very helpful tool for me right now. It'd be easy to get discouraged looking at all the have-to's, but for me it's more of a way of organizing my time so I don't have to file all of it in my head (i.e. the task may not be done, but at least there's a note reminding me). Then, when I have five minutes here or 10 minutes there, I can make time for a specific task that might otherwise seem daunting.

Try to make some time today to unleash your creativity!