New Focus for the New Year

Hello long lost blog. Happy New Year (11 days into 2013!) I always get excited in January. I make all these yearly plans for myself, and like everyone who sets a New Year's Resolution, the good intentions fail as soon as March. Every year I vow to do better. I guess this year is no different. However, my resolutions aren't the typical. I'm not trying to lose weight or quite some nasty habit (although I could stand to stop biting my nails). Nope. My resolution is different.

"I resolve to be more creative and treat life like it's Wonderland."

I struggle with that every day. I fight depression and regret missed opportunities. I have a new perspective. I have talents, although I allow my perfectionism  insecurities to criticize myself. Last year, I started slowly to put more focus into my Etsy shop. I listened to other people for years over the type of things I should create. I settled and made some things that I, well, hate. I started just making things that I thought looked good and didn't care if they sold. Ironically, that's the things that I actually sold. So I realized that I shouldn't listen or care what everyone else thinks. Just be me.

I'm resolving to live without creative regrets.  Break out of trying to be perfect (aka- letting go of my insecurities). You'll see a new side to Friskywink. I will be taking more creative risks.

How do I keep this resolution?

Today's journal: Taking a step out of "perfection"

Create jewelry I like to make & post on Etsy.
Keeping an art journal.
Blog more often.
Don't let others put me down.
Don't put myself down.
Don't compare myself to other artists.
When I get a creative impulse- act on it!
Believe in myself and let nothing else matter.

“In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?” 
~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass