I'm starting this blog as a record of my journey.  I have been dreaming and working and creating for years, with a very clear, evolving vision of what I am meant to do with my life.  The path has always seemed erratic and I have worried that my instinct to jump from project to project, and technique to technique, from discipline to discipline was going to be my biggest hurdle.  Maybe it will, but it's simultaneously my greatest strength and my greatest weakness.  I have realized now that I have been training myself to specialize in everything.  It's not that I want to be a designer or an artist or a teacher or a store owner or a vendor exclusively, but that I am compelled to do all of these things.  

Illustration, Graphic Design (invitations and promotional materials), Product Design, Art Instruction, Art Kits, Clothing & Object Re-design, Jewelry design, Murals, Portraits, Special Event Design & Installation Art, Merchandising Display Design, Alternative Art Material Sourcing and Sales, Consulting, Journaling, Writing...  I have professional experience in almost all of these activities, and lots of personal experience in the rest.  This blog is where I will be documenting how I incorporate all of these things into my life and my business.  

As of Monday, February 1st, 2010, I will have a retail shop within the Trendzessence & Ecossentials umbrella on Marine Ave. in Powell River.  I'll be selling alternative, salvaged art materials, kits and handmade art products.  I'll also have information on different workshops and lessons so that I can get a gauge of where interest lies.  Some ideas are: Make a lampshade workshop, Fun, cheap, unique crafts and art to do with your kids (workshops for parents &/ kids), learn to make new things out of old t-shirts, figure drawing and portraiture for kids and adults, mixed-media journal making and creative filling, colour study collage, jewelry making... 

I am so excited and thankful to have the space and opportunity to be able to branch out this way and be more visible to customers, clients, and people in general.  I am blessed to be able to spend my life doing these things, however much or little time I am able to devote on any given day.  There have always been huge majorities of people who are not awarded the luxury of following or even finding their passion at all, and in honour and gratitude I am going to live mine as deeply and richly as I can.  

"Life is not finding yourself, but creating yourself."

"Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"