being creative

Last week was difficult. I felt that my creative spirit had left, and I certainly didn't know when it would be back. Perhaps it's the gray skies that permanently hang like a wall in January. Or maybe it was that company that decided not to carry one of my products. I was down. A friend suggested that my creative well was dry and that I needed to refill it. But how?

Beside just letting the moment pass. They eventually do. I decided that I MUST do something creative with my hands. No matter what it turned out like. I worked with the felt balls creating some funny creatures. I used beads, buttons, embroidery floss, needles and anything else that added personality to the little creatures. They turned out not too bad.

Also, I've been reading Sue Monk Kidds' book "Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story". It has helped me through this hard time. In the book, Kidd is struggling with confidence to continue to write, "The Secret Lives of Bees". Her self doubt, the questions that all of us have. It made me feel better that even the successful, creative women, like Kidd, has her days too. We all know what happen with the "Bee" book. A movie and the sixth bestselling novel of the last decade!

Kidd also mentions in her writing a "necessary fire".  My creativeness is my "necessary fire". It makes me alive. The fire is something that is inborn in my heart. And is part of my reason for being here. I just need to remember, that some days the fire will grow big and other days, it will be a small glowing flicker. But I know this, my fire cannot be put out.