Inspiration from Love, Lyrics & Music…
I get inspiration from love, lyrics and music. I also get inspiration from what surrounds me and what’s happening around the world. Sometimes, I’ll be hard at work, meeting deadlines, designing a few websites or two at once, doing projects for clients, sewing, re-arranging and just burning my candlestick at both ends entirely for hours, upon hours.
To keep me company, being that I work/design alone and do everything alone, I’ll turn the music up so loud that it drowns out my diamond drills, my electric saws, and my carving and polishing wheels. My tumbler’s are drowned out and those things are noisy. I become enthralled and lost in music as I carve, string, shape, facet, and wire/chain away… I get lost in and by memories, mementos, thoughts, find myself giggling, and wanting to use all blue stones. It’s odd because I hear words to a song, and I get an idea to make something… I’d describe my vision as being a multi-faceted spectrum. I have no limits, even when I am terribly stressed. I keep going and keep pushing. So tonight, it’s a busy day. I have lots of things to get done. I have been swamped because it’s the Holidays and I had 350 orders and out of the 350, 80 were custom requests from the boutique, not the websites. So I have been busy and my fingers, wrists and arms are sore. My back is sore from leaning over and my jeweler’s bench is hard as a rock. I can’t complain. I’ll take two advil and then smile about how beautiful life is and how blessed I am.
For me, 2011 was pretty amazing, and 2012 will be so much more. I have high hopes. I’m able to do what I want and I’m living my dream. It didn’t happen all at once, but took many years and an investment of never giving up, some tears, lots of hardship and frustration, long hours of getting my degrees and having to delay my designing dream, mostly my soul and determination. You just never stop and you never accept ‘NO’ or someone telling you that you can or can’t do something. You define and determine what your own limits are, not someone else. That’s my thoughts on life, going after your dreams and finding happiness… Oh, and happiness isn’t always nothing but a run of straight/pure perfection and happiness. ‘Happiness’ is like a highway. It has it’s lumps, speed bumps, tickets, stop signs, red lights, yellow lights, green lights, bad weather, pedestrians crossing & jaywalking, impeding your journey, and other drivers… but you still have to keep on driving on that road of/to ‘finding your happiness, and life’s contentment. We all have our own ideas of what ‘happiness and contentment’ are, right’ ??? Define yours.
May you all have a very Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, and Happy, Beautiful 2012.
XO ;)
12.23.11 @ 16:34
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