..Here I am...Perfect As I'm Ever Gonna Be..

I love everything artsy or creative. I would be completely content spending the whole of my free time, and free money between Michaels, JoAnns, and AC Moore. (OH! and throw in the occasional yard sale for fun furniture to refinish, and I am TRULY in Heaven.)

I am a free spirit. I like to do things outside the box, and this reflects in my art as I rarely measure, think through, or pre-plan. I am truly a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants type girl. Obviously this approach leaves quite a bit of room for error. Or at least some would see it that way. I see it as quite a bit of room for character. For beautiful changes made from a combination of small, irrelevant blemishes and major, near detrimental mistakes. The beautiful thing about creating something, is that you have the freedom to make it uniquely yours. Mistakes, cover-ups, embellishments and all.

The Arts are what I love. I spend my free time in front of a sewing machine, paper, pencils, markers, ribbon, glue, scissors, ovens, icings, and all kinds of in betweens. Often, my hand slips..and the colossal whoopsie has the potential to ruin my progress; yet instead becomes a beautiful creative addition that looks like it was meant to be there all along. Perhaps therein lies the beauty...perhaps it was meant to be there all along.

I am far from perfect. And although I have learned many lessons the hard way I know that my scars are shaping me into something beautiful. I may still be climbing through the Brier patches and looking for the path..but I know my masterpiece will come together eventually. Exactly the way it was meant to, all along.

Check in on me as much as you'd like. I'm quite clumsy, and not the most level-headed...so while I attempt to create my masterpiece there are bound to be some laughs, tears, steaming ears, asterisk, falls, fights, embarrassing moments, and LOTS and LOTS of love.