1. skyler01
   Member

   I've been away from the forum for quite a while now and was never a frequent poster, but I loved this thread when it started. So I decided to come back for an update and I'm so glad I did. It amazes me how many of you so poetically describe a life so similar to mine! Yet others provide a window into a completely different world that I still feel I can relate to. It reiterates to me just how big and small the world is at the same time.

   I've allowed myself to become consumed with work,stress,kids, etc... recently, and was in need of some inspiration. Please keep posting your wonderful stories, updates, and pics. I hope to do the same!

   Posted 7 months ago #

2. redlights
   Member

   Tonight I am debuting my very first clothing line for Fall/Winter. I'm very nervous - last I checked 500 people are coming and 150 press tickets have been given out for the fashion show.

   My mom flew in to help sew and finish up so I am taking a break from hemming and my mom is ironing like crazy and I'm drinking some of the magical ginger tea siri sent me to try to calm my nerves.

   Being creative is one thing, I have learned, but actually putting yourself out there as an artist is a whole new level. I get such great joy out of making but I still am terrified that it's not good enough. I'm not prepared enough. I'm not ready. No one wants to buy any of it. I'm too expensive, it's not expensive enough. And blah, blah, blah, blah...

   But...what joy! Those fears are calmed by the fact that I did! And I created! And it's beautiful! And it's meant for stomping around in Hunter boots in the english countryside with! And I have business cards! And photography and maybe, maybe, maybe there will be one person out there that likes what I think is beautiful too and might want it also.

   Posted 7 months ago #

3. andrea_m
   Member

   Congratulations redlights!! That is so exciting!! I'm sure everything will be just fine and people will like your stuff. =)

   Posted 7 months ago #

4. siri
   Member

   redlights, how amazing you did this ! no matter the outcome, it is something to be very very proud of. combining two professions now, so strong. no wonder you were tired...
   I hope you had the most wonderful evening and wish you every success.

   and whenever you feel consumed by your work, bear this in mind :

   'Every moment of existence should be treated with exact the same reverence with which we treat summer holidays. Remaking our understandig of "holidays" means rejecting the image of ourselves we inherit from dominator culture - that of a worker, someone whose leisure must be compartmentalised into units, and who is somehow deserving of exclusion from paradise. Paradise - summer holidays - is a state of mind that can be claimed by any of us. _Claire Evans (YACHT)'
   I put this up next to my desk, and it helps (sometimes)

   Posted 7 months ago #

5. redlights
   Member

   Is life still good?

   Posted 5 months ago #

6. rosega
   Member

   How funny you just posted, redlights, I was just sitting here answering another thread and thought, "where did that joy one go?" If that is an open question to everyone, then YES! It's christmas time, which even an agnostic-atheist like myself enjoys throughly, and all the lights everywhere put me in a good mood. I'm sitting in my home on Saturday morning, drinking my Twinings red berries tea (which I had for the first time in Iceland and so it always reminds me of that trip), going to find out in the next few weeks whether I got accepted into my work's tuition reimbursement program and whether I'll be doing 3-4 months of research in Iceland in the summer of 2013 :) I have my health, family, and friends, including all of you lovely people. I have met some really amazing people here, and I am very grateful for it.
   Life is ridiculously good right now, and I hope it is the same for all of you. Find the good bits, and ignore the rest if you can. Here's sending love and warm wishes your way(s)!

   Posted 5 months ago #

7. Schenkerton
   Member

   I am preparing to go after one of my big dreams which is to live in New Zealand for a year. Ohio feels really stagnant as the search for bandmates to form a serious band with the intentions to make it our lives and the search for a girl just do not seem to be working right now. I think Ohio just isn't the place for me right now as the attempts to build something here fail, it sheds light on the fact that I have nothing holding me back right now. So maybe now is the time for that grand adventure I have been dreaming up since 2007. Because once I do build something here it is going to make it a lot harder to let it all go and wander off blindly into hopes of magic. Most of all I don't want to be one of the people who dreams and never takes the leap.

   I was having a friend guess what kind of adventure I was planning. As he threw out guesses I had to keep saying "Bigger!" I had fun when he eventually landed on New Zealand for a year and the surprising reaction.

   Posted 4 months ago #

8. siri
   Member

   Schenkers ! you will never regret this decision, even if not all the bits work out all that awesomely in New Zealand. You're so right to do this, you leap! and I wish you all the best - and eh... make us part of the dream

   Posted 4 months ago #

9. Schenkerton
   Member

   Siri, you are awesome.

   Posted 4 months ago #

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