article: I am sensing a theme here... | written down

So looking at these I am getting that I like to go my own way! The times in my life that I have turned significant corners have been the times when I have been prepared to swim upstream. On a daily basis it can be a pleasure that my view is just a few degrees of ‘normal’ at times of course, I can feel isolated or misunderstood. Wouldn’t trade it for anything though – what my friend calls the Kellyness of Kelly.

The opposite of resolutions.

Turning a corner.

I am enjoying my fabric journal SO much. In fact, thinking of it now, it is another example of swimming upstream, dancing my own dance. I have a nice spiral bound art pad I could have used, or I could have carried on in my last art journal. I had a spark of an idea to use fabric, then I dismissed it, but as sparks do, it ignited and I had to go with it. I am very excited about finishing another page so I can put together my first signature.

Like so many others here, I am trying to accept my mistakes and build on them to create something new. My textiles/dressmaking/quilting background wants tidy ends and even page sizes. My evolving artist is going to just let it flow, the pages start out the same size, but with heat setting and stitching are changing size slightly. I am just going to make up the odd bits with fabric or ribbon or whatever comes to hand when I make up the signatures.

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