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I read art blogs on the internet almost everyday.  They are wonderful and inspiring and intimidating.  So many people pumping out great amounts of creative endeavors with apparent ease while I sit here and procrastinate for yet another hour. 

Jude Hill from Spirit Cloth posts new work almost every day and quilts on the train commuting to work.  Her work is personal, delightful and fearless. 

Elizabeth from Be...Dream...Play is also prolific - it's a treat to see her art journal pages sing out  - her photography is grand!

Thousands of artist pumping out art everyday and posting it for all the world to see.  How do they do it??

I spend time thinking I don't have enough time to do art, then I walk around thinking that I don't have the right supplies, that my idea isn't good enough or has been done before, I make tea, read some blogs and put in some laundry and before you know it, hours have passed and I am still shying away from doing the "work."  It's the useless inner chatter that stops me dead in my tracks.  The mini-quilt above has an Eckhart Tolle quote on it that says "All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."

No-mind.  Don't think.  Step up to the canvas.  Let go of the end result and begin.  Play, enjoy the process.  Just do it! 

**Some good news!  If you have read the post before this one about Smudge and have been picturing him running - keep up the good work!  We have had some leg stretching and tale wagging - good signs!  Run, Smudge, Run!

Comments

[jude]

somewhere along the line,my creating became such a habit. it is sort of like eating. can't stop! thanks for the kind words!

[Corinne]

Thank you Cat, I needed the pep talk. I finally have a sewing room at home, and I have yet to turn the machine on. I have been thinking, planning and plotting, but haven't started a thing. I do need to "let go of the result and begin". I can always count on you for inspiration!

Hugs,
Corinne~

[eb]

so Cat - here's the deal:

very often
quite often
regularly...

the laundry, dishes, gardening, cleaning, cooking and shopping get done by my sweet and thankfully domestic other half...

while I am dreaming awake...

it is like breathing

big constant lungfuls

and best when I am NOT thinking

just responding to impulse

and flowing

and when I get stuck

I walk...

AND - btw...

Smudge is working on standing and the feeling in his back legs is increasing - day by day - many many many thanks to so many...

and thanks especially to you Cat

xox - eb.

[eb]

AND the mini-quilt is magnificent - in all ways...

xox - eb.