What a week it has been! Lets Review!
 
This past week’s Goals:
✔First Batch of Soap ready! TOMORROW!- (its amazing :) I am so proud! I really have fallen in love with soap making. I am now trying to see if this is new soaping adventure is an avenue to make a little bit of pocket change.  It’s a bit of a challenge to start!
 
✔Start using my NEW Sewing machine (I did and I am in LOVE)
 
✔Make soap bags (I started but  I need to make a pattern so I can make them nicer)
 
-Make more Soap this weekend (Made some lye mixtures  Last night ,now letting it cool, I should be able to MAKE SOAP!, this Morning!  I went get more supplies today to complete the next batch!! While in the store struck up a conversation with the check out lady about my soaping adventures. Explain a little back story on how last time I ask about if Lowes sold Lye, I got asked if I was going to make METH……  when I asked an associate if they sold it . So that  got her attention, I then explain that he should have asked did I kill someone. I don’t think Meth has Lye in it and if it does it would kill you. PLEASE DO NOT SNORT OR SMOKE LYE….. I hope I don’t have to put a disclaimer. So I told her what I was doing with the lye. I explained Sopification (is a process that produces soap, usually from fats and lye) . I also told her that I once I had built up a small supplies of soaps I wanted to start selling. She told me to bring some to the Manager and they might be able to sell it there….. OMG what this would be a dream! )
 
-Monday go Bridge Hunting with Christopher (Nope-sometimes school happens)
 
✔Draw 10 sketch’s a week. (I did this!! I am kind of in love with this new addition to my sketchbook. I have started to draw my Home’s treasures! SO this is kinds cool drawing special things around my home I share with Christopher. I think this is gonna be fun!
 
-Make 1 Vessel with canvas (tomorrow/today)

-Blog 2 more times (does this count  :)  1 down and then one on wed/ Thursday)
 
Looking at this week, I set some goals and crushed some goals. I am still working on some. I am very thankful for having Yesterday off from work and school so I could put some more time into ARTing and homework. This week has also been a bit stressful; I had a conflict with an individual and thought I down for the count. It made me really realize how much I have grown but also how much more I need to grow. I really need to work on standing my ground and standing up for my self. I believe this is something we all have to work on.


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OH and we got a Kiln this weekend!!! How exciting and the possibilities!!!






      




      



I just wanted to share this…. I usually do not really enjoy MLK weekend. Not because I don’t love Dr. King because I DO but because it marks the date 10 year of when one of my most special people departed this world. That weekend I was meant to go home. I didn’t and I regretted it every day. I have come to terms with it but it still bothers me a bit. I miss her daily, and am Thankful for her daily. I am still completing the promise that I made to her, finishing my Degree! This weekend reminds me of my Grandy and her not being here. But the message that Dr. King taught was just further infused in my life by this woman. Grandy was a true blessing to every one who met her. Her kindness was so becoming of her. Her gentle words would sooth the soul.  She was beyond Graceful to all she met even if it was her Name.  These are the things that I hope to one day achieve.  If I could only live up to her expectations just a little bit I will happy. So in honor of her, I will say this, complete your goals no matter how long it take, Love like no other, and also be kind and gentle.
 
Enjoy your day! Love some one xxx
 
This week’s Goals:
-Make a cement Vessel with lath or start on one
-Make some more soap bags
-Order more Supplies to make more soap,
-Look into how to make larger soap sculptures
-Start on a Large Drawing (combine some images)
-Photograph more
-Work on my Courage
-Blog 2 more times
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Please let me know what you think!

 New Semester, New Dreams, New vision. So I feel I need to start blogging again. Not only start again but also to start to share my work, my words and some things I am “working/struggling” on. 
 
But I do have some stipulations if you’re going to start on this journey with me.
           
            -Leave your Judgments outside- No body got time for that. Please.
            - Help me Grow, seriously I need some encouragement
            -Leave Critique. This helps me grow, how can I do better without it?
            - Help my dreams come to realities.
 
I feel I need to be impeccable of my word. By this I mean really just continue to speak truth. I come by it honest, my filters (both verbal and facial expressions) usually doesn’t work. I feel this some times is both an asset and a hindrance. But I Choose to continue speaking truth. I need more Grace. I am very thankful that I already every day have Grace added to my life by namesake. But I Choose to give more Grace to those around me. This for me is a struggle, I guess because my fuse is short most days. So I Choose more grace. I Choose to make time to make art.  This is my goal in life that one day I will get paid to do this full time, even if it is going and making art with little minds.  I choose to art. I choose to make. I choose to do what I love.  And I choose to make time for it on the daily.
 
My blogs are also going to try and encourage those who will read. I have been told in the past semester that I might not have been as encouraging as I could be and that I am harsh.  I guess my words can be harsh but I am trying to speak truth. So I guess I need to work on that turn my harshness in the softness.
 
I do know some actually like to read these crazy ramblings out of my mind oddly enough And oddly enough people actually like me :) and my ideas. This still blows my mind.  I know I know, how can you not practice what you teach…. Well world this one is hard for me. I still am coming to terms with the fact that my words do matter. This process of rebuilding myself esteem has sure been a LONG process. It is still a struggle.  But I see the light in the distance it’s not so bright just yet but its there!  It still blows peoples minds that I am almost 29 years old. I have been married. I am divorced. I grew up overseas. I am still in school. I have a Brother. My Parents are Missionary.  I still don’t understand that it’s a shock that I was a blue-eyed blonde child who grew up in Kenya. The world is not that SMALL :)
 
This educational journey has been a real struggle. I have not only added education, I have added a life style.  I go to work everyday, to learn, to help, and to listen. I come home and do the same thing.  My work is never going to stop and that’s what I love. I love that I am actually perusing my Dreams.   It took me a while to know what that was but I love that I am still on that path.  I love that everyday I am learning new techniques in the many field I work in. I LOVE My life.
 
Thank you for helping reach my potential.  Thank you for taking time out of your day to “listen” to these ramblings.  Please Come back and see how my website/ works will be changing these weeks. If I have not blogged please remind me :)
 
Goals of this Semester
 
Studio time: Set hours to work, build a work ethic, set more goals, DICIPLE
 
Produce more: make more gifting art, Make Soap weekly, DRAW more, Ceramics, Sculpture, Metal, Wood, More Interdisciplinary. MORE PHOTO.
 
Build my Confidence as an Artist: have more people own my art weather it be small gifting sculptures or  by them buying them.
 
Produce more:  MAKE MORE ART. Seriously…. Make some LARGE vessels (containers)
 
Be RAW-Let my art speak for itself. Work more on things I like to do.
 
To share my work more:  let people actually see photos of what I am working on.
 
 
This week’s Goals:
 
-First Batch of Soap ready! TOMORROW!-
-Start using my NEW Sewing machine
-Make soap bags
-Make more Soap this weekend
-Monday go Bridge Hunting with Christopher (Photo)
-Draw 10 sketch’s a week.
- Make 1 Vessel with canvas
-Blog 2 more times


Below I leave you a little thing. This is a truth for me