Time Has a Way of Flying By

I am all set up in my new studio space at the Co-op.  Although I struggle to get in there to work a lot of days (OK, most days), I am making some real progress on personal projects both in and out of the studio (which is exactly what I was hoping to accomplish) as well as getting set up to teach some sewing classes.  EEK!!  I am nervous about teaching.  I have never really done it before except in a one-on-one situation so this will be a very interesting adventure.  The Co-op is called Artopia One Stop ART Co-op and you can check us out on FaceBook.

Also, I have now made two of the four payments to my upcoming class that I will be taking in July, AND, paid for my plane tickets!!  WOOT!!!  That is going to be an amazingly interesting new adventure as well!!  I am so very happy to be doing it, even if it scares the crap out of me.  :-D

Have a blessed day!
Traci

Sooooo much has happened!!

Hello everyone!  I can't believe how much has happened in the last couple of months, much less the last two years.  There has been so much change going on with me and my life, that I have had to focus pretty damn hard on just getting through it all.  And recording any of it was just too time consuming.  It has been wonderful, and even sometimes painful, but I really wouldn't change a bit of it.  I was well past the point of needing these changes and I am grateful to have made them and to be continuing to make them.  My life has improved so much that I am astonished at having been stuck for so long.  Guess I just had to meet the right people and be in the right spot!!  ;-)

Well here I am, and I am proud of the accomplishments I have made and in the person I have become, and I haven't been able to say that in a looooooong time.  I have made some major progress is dealing with and managing my clinical depression and now I have joined an Art Co-op to help build a business for myself in a creative format and to help bring my community together.  Although we just started this Co-op, we are having a wonderful time working towards our goals.  I am looking forward to all of the wonderful new experiences and friendships that will come out of it.  I am also making plans to take an Art Coaching class so that I can officially teach a particular art style.  I am giddy with excitement and nervousness about it, but I definitely want to do it!  

So stay tuned for pictures of the Co-op and more news on my class as I work my way towards it!  Yippee!!!

May you be blessed!
Traci

Mundane Life

So it just goes to show how true my "About Me" section is.  I really have been stuck in reality.  I sooooo didn't realize that it has been almost 2 full years since my last post!!!  CRAP!  I had not even realized how much time had passed.  But, that being said, I have made some AMAZING progress in some areas of my life that truly and desperately needed it.  And I am so happy I have done the work!!  I still have work to do, but looking back at what I have accomplished completely motivates me to keep on working to improve myself and my life.

I have to say I have been extremely blessed to have had some help along the way from some very lovely friends.  And, from this wonderful book I have found that helped me not only get motivated, but helped to keep me moving.  That isn't saying I didn't have any setbacks, because believe me I did, and still do!  But I don't stay down for long, long, long periods of time like I used to.  Leonie Dawson has been one of the best things to happen to me in the last year!  Check her out here if you are ready to motivate your life.  But only if you are comfortable with hippy-dippy, woo-woo love!!!  Ha!  Even if your aren't, it doesn't hurt to look into her workbooks.

Her planner has helped me to put my goals into perspective and keep me uplifted enough to move towards them.  The 2015 planner looked like this, only without the bow.

She has revised and added to the 2016 planner and we are getting so much more.  This is what the new bundle looks like.  If you would like to order it for yourself, click here.

I really can't describe how excited I am to see what the next year will bring!!  I have been hard at work the last few weeks creating stuff to sell.  Not much at the moment, but it all has to start somewhere right?  Right!!  So off I go to create more and get back on track to making the life I want. 

Peace, Love and Blessings!

Holidays and the End of the Year

So it just goes to show that I kind of suck at this whole blogging thing.  Of course it might actually help if I had interwebz access at my home (where I am 90% of the time), but I don't.  I have to go into town to get online and mostly I just try to get the bare basics done and then go back home.  So I sincerely appologize to any and all who keep coming here and wonder, "WTH is wrong with this woman and why won't she post anything new?!"  Well, now you know.  And if you don't wonder, well, you still know.  I have no idea if I can manage to recover my internet connection anytime soon.  It isn't looking hopeful, but I plan on making some changes after the first of the year.  Even if it means closing my page.  Idk yet.  Will just have to wait and see.  In the meantime, I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season.

Happy Holidays,
See you next year.

Recovering from a busy weekend

This last weekend was EXTREMELY busy.  Much busier than I expected it to be.  But it was all good.  One of my twin boys (the oldest by one minute, lol) graduated from high school, my sisters came up for the graduation and stayed at my house (the first time ever!), and we made an offer on a house to buy.  I am so very proud of my son for finishing school and getting his diploma despite all the troubles him and I have had.  He is a good kid even though he has made some bad choices.  But he is still learning.  He is only 18 after all, and although he thinks he know it all, he really doesn't.  I love him much more than he knows though.

I am always going to see my sisters, but they never come to see me, so I was VERY happy to have them at my house for a change, even if I didn't really have the room or proper set up to allow for company.  I hope they had a good time.  As for the house, well, we didn't get it.  The choices that we have are pretty slim but we hold out hope that something will present itself soon.  We deserve to finally have a place to call our own.  But, what will be, will be.  So I try not to be upset about it.

Things have settled down now, so I have time to get back to creating.  I have spent a lot of time over the last week or two mending lots of old jeans and shorts that I just didn't have time to get to before.  I am making good progress and I even made me a new outfit.  I will have to post a picture later as to the fact that none of the batteries in the house seem to want to work with my camera.  So I need to get new ones.  Well that is all for now.  Hope you all have a blessed day!