Ladybug Lake Update

Just a quick update to show you progress on the Ladybug Lake piece. I am so very pleased with the way this is turning out, the colors are great and the design works so well with them. Although I am getting antsy about always getting to the next "step" of completion, it is easy enough to realize how much I am enjoying the process and relax with just the doing it.

I recently saw an interview with Colin Hanks, the actor and Tom Hanks son, on "Off Camera with Sam Jones". What an amazing guy this is who truly is in love with his craft of acting. There were several things that I took away from this conversation, and one was that you just have to get out of your own way and just do it, win-lose-or draw. I like that idea as I feel I have been operating on the same principle lately with the construction of my own creative craft of stitched art. People like Colin inspire me with their can do attitude and dedicated spirit to their calling, especially when you have to reach beyond the shadow of a famous dad to do it, as many of us have to reach beyond what has been done before to explore new frontiers in our own artistic journeys.

Oh, and something else he really nailed in the interview, he hates math and the reason he gave was brilliant and really brought home my own reason for disliking it. It is very predictable because the sum never changes in any formula of it. 2+2=4 will never, ever change, and for many creatives, that monotony is the death toll for any interest in it. I love the broad learning curve of my art that allows for me to determine the outcome and establish different paths to it. Curiosity and the ability to learn something new from it is what stokes the imaginative fires of my art, and is why I am perpetually enthralled by it every day.