I think I feel like revamping everything in my life, not just this blog. I'm veering toward truly simplifying just about every little bit of the nooks and crannies that comprise who I am and exactly how I project that image of myself into the world. This is a tricky tricky endeavor.
While I get that this concept is overdone and cliche, it also very necessary if I want to expand my life and my business.
It used to be that I would stay up until 3:30 every morning either going to see bands play around Boston and, then when I moved out here to California, Los Angeles and San Francisco. I kept myself going socially with lots art openings and bar hopping, but living in Santa Barbara, it only generated a pretty drab dynamic after a few years of the same ol'. When I felt less gregarious and more like a hermit, I would stay in and make lots of pretty doohickies and drink hot cocoa or tea from fresh mint or chamomile from the farmers' market. No television meant more music on my stereo and more visual journals to collect along the way. I thrived in that environment.
Now I have no idea how the hell I was able to make it through grad school full time, while working full time and still have time for the rest. But Boston begs for your participation and I was in love with that city so I let myself do it all. Adapting to California simultaneously confused and excited me- so my momentum kept going. But then slowly I started to wear myself out.
Once I started dating my now husband, my world became more centralized and focused. I sped through the better part of my twenties and craved home.
Redefining home to mean less about location and more about perspective created a whole new dynamic, many more dimensions, and much more peace and calm in my life. I've become a homebody... wanting to spend more time in the garden drinking tea or coffee with my husband and our dog, more time going for evening walks, more time creating pretty little doohickies in our studio and more time appreciating the smaller life defining moments over the bigger happenings. It was age probably. But it was exactly what I had always wanted.
This revamping is about honing in on that appreciation and embracing it all. It's having near clarity. But mostly it's about sharing the amazingness I experience with the rest of you- and this means bringing in creative, radiant and inspiring peeps to be featured right here in this blog. It means sharing their world, their sense of home, the core of who they are, with the rest of us. This blog can no longer be just about me. It's got to be about you, too.
This helps connect us in the balance of life and it helps our businesses thrive. They go hand in hand. I'm convinced of it.
Next post... Life revamped♥
