It's still early days

When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible. Nancy Coey 

Another passion quote I found online. I don't know who Nancy Coey is, but this is what I'm endeavouring to do right now. The support I've gotten so far is really great. Everyone is so hopeful for me. Indeed it is others' enthusiasm that got me to even give this venture a go. It's still very early days, I have no expectations, and I am taking it slowly & step-by-step, but I have to say, it feels good and right and I'm loving my life right now.

I did another huge stash purge the other day, after the last fair. I broke up most of my Studio Calico kits, I only kept intact those kits that I really really loved and which I had lots of add-ons for, so I had lots to work with still. Everything else was distributed between piles for blog giveaways, for big daughter to use, and for my outreach project (still in early stages so not ready to share about it yet). Plus of course a good portion of it went back into my stash, which was great because I felt like I got all this great new stuff! It feels so good to shed. Especially since I know I get a kit every month with new goodies in it. I think I was in organization mode, having had to be organized for the fairs.

Anyway, this is all a bit of a ramble, but I do have a LO to share, kind of an art journaling one: 

I was inspired by the talented Susan Weinroth's page.

The journaling is from a newspaper column written by my friend who owns the yoga studio who convinced me to do a workshop there that the mother & daughter came to and then the mother saw me some time after and told me what a healing experience scrapbooking with her daughter was... which was one of the key events that got me on the path I am now on. And Sharon's column really resonated with me, so much so that I had to do a page using it (it helped that I had this recent photo of myself, courtesy of DH, that I thought worked well with it.) It was very therapeutic to do that page!

And yes, I have at least one maybe two more giveaways coming up... .