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For as long as I can remember, my mom has been sitting behind a table of fabric scraps, glue, paint, and various other ‘crafty tools.’ I feel nurtured by this energy, a reminder of days when I was a little girl and enjoyed the gifts that sprang from her creative mind.
I always had the best costume at Halloween!
My mom hasn’t always had (or made) the opportunity to do what she loves. She often worked three jobs to support my brother and me. Between watching her work her fanny off and my grandmother pulling double shifts as an LVN, it’s no wonder that I decided that I would follow pursuit.
I say decided, but it was more like an auto-pilot, pre-determined script I followed. Unaware, asleep, sleepwalking… I followed in their footsteps. At one point I even signed up to take a SECRETARIAL course – you know, those ATI classes.
WHAT WAS I THINKING?!???????
Well, I wasn’t thinking. I just followed along with the examples in front of me and did what I did.
I packed up my inner writer and put her on the shelf. I tucked away the performer in me and put her in the bottom of the closet. I grabbed the money making train and held on tight!
I’ve enjoyed a crazy, perilous ride on the money-making train. One that I finally found would lead me nowhere I truly wanted to go, so I stepped off a few years ago.
It wasn’t a graceful landing. It wasn’t even without broken bones and bruises. Today, I’m better than I’ve ever been.
Perhaps that is why I see my mom and I want to help her know there’s an easier way. A gentler way to do what you love and allow the money to come.
We set up her shop last month, and already she has ‘friends’ coming over to ‘see’ her designs. Mom makes jokes about people stealing her ideas, and the truth is… there are more ideas coming out of her head than thousands of people could ever have time to copy!
Mark and I spent a couple of days out there working in the shop this past weekend. We had fun. After a day of wrestling with my creative energy, everything finally slotted in and I took off. My mind started churning out ideas and I felt so inspired! I made the cutest little witch with a raven hovering over her head with a star attached.
This is the energy of abundance… and Dusty Rose will get there. She already has the energy… now it is only up to allowing it to flow!
And, this weekend was a great reminder to me that when I get TOO busy, I stop the flow. The last few weeks have been a blur. I don’t do well when I am busy like this. When it takes me a day to start flowing creative ideas… that’s my cue that I need to SLOW DOWN!
Love you mom… 
When she ‘gets around to it’… her site is here. If you like Rustic, Cowgirl, Texas-y stuff and uber unique holiday decorations… she’s your gal.
Oh, and Mark learned how to use a plasma cutter, so he cut tin most of the weekend. He created crosses, pumpkins, and a love sign. We couldn’t keep up with him!
I still am in awe of craftsmen. Spirit called mom an artisan craftsman once and I still find it amazing how she and Lelon can take a bunch of nothing and create something amazing that will weather any tornado (as in the HUGE beds Lelon builds and mom designed).
The world is a better place with artists in it!
