Monday Meanderings

Now that I am creating jewelry I am finding inspiration in almost everything. A quote, a scripture verse, a scrap of overheard conversation; all have brought inspiration lately. Sometimes my mind gets so full and finally I have learned that it is important to carry around a small book to capture those ideas. For me this is not my sketch book, but it is a book of ideas, scribbled quickly at a red light, during a song or sermon at church, in the middle of the night after waking up from a dream. I carry my idea book with me everywhere and sleep with it under my pillow or within reach on my night stand.

I feel like the more I honor the ideas and inspirations that I receive the more that come. When I don’ write them down; capture them in some way, not only will I forget them, but I think that they stop coming.

This is one of the reasons that I believe it is so important as an artist to create something every day, even if it is just a scribble or sketch in your sketch book. I know I have days that I just can’t devote any time to the studio or even creating. But I try to do something creative.