{"id":466,"date":"2010-07-03T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2010\/celebrating-each-step-on-our-creative-path\/"},"modified":"2010-07-03T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T22:18:00","slug":"celebrating-each-step-on-our-creative-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/celebrating-each-step-on-our-creative-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating steps on the creative path"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to a new blog series called Steps on the Creative Path.\u00a0 This is the first post that explains the story behind the series.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So many of us are coming alive to creative dreams, paying attention to the whispers in our heart which urge us\u00a0to\u00a0an authentic, creative\u00a0life. Some of us have been on that path a long time, others of us have stepped onto it more recently. With the burgeoning of technology we also have the opportunity to\u00a0express and grow our creative dreams within\u00a0global communities of connection, bringing a\u00a0host of ‘techie’ jobs\u00a0new to all of us, no matter how long you have been using your hands, pen or voice to create.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0stepped away from a 20 year career in social work into life as a mosaic artist just 18 short months ago, finally giving my my artistic calling the attention\u00a0it deserves. I duly\u00a0launched myself\u00a0into a whole\u00a0host of\u00a0projects, initiatives and ‘to do’ lists to develop myself as an artist and\u00a0sell my art.<\/p>\n

Then, five<\/span> weeks ago, I began Kelly Rae’s Flying Lessons <\/a>e-course on developing your creative business. The first lesson\u00a0encouraged us to get our journals out and let\u00a0the creative dreams and goals unfold. At that moment when my pen was poised, something in me decided to pause and list what I had already done <\/span><\/em>before listing my goals and what I wanted to do<\/span><\/em>. This was a light bulb\u00a0moment…the list was long and took me by surprise, so little had I acknowledged these landmarks\u00a0in my determination\u00a0to get on with the\u00a0next<\/em> thing! I decided at that point that I would blog about significant\u00a0steps I was taking as a way of celebrating\u00a0them. The following week,\u00a0my excitement for establishing\u00a0my business office\u00a0spilled onto a\u00a0blog page <\/a>and I cannot tell you how meaningful it was for me to\u00a0read the comments of others celebrating this landmark with me<\/em><\/span>. As if to underline the importance of building celebration into our lives, Kelly Rae talked about this very subject in Flying Lessons this week (telling us how\u00a0she and her husband now make a point of\u00a0chinking glasses and naming something to celebrate…as there is\u00a0always something to celebrate, however small).<\/p>\n

And so I have decided to do a short blog series to intentionally set out the steps I have taken and encourage others to do the same.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(from a wine bottle we drunk tonight…how appropriate!)<\/div>\n

I hope this series will help us creative bloggers to step back, reflect, acknowledge\u00a0what we have got done <\/span>as a way of balancing the\u00a0growing list of what is still to do<\/span>.\u00a0 It can be that you set up a facebook<\/span> page, mastered online newsletters or a new art technique, did your tax return,\u00a0ran a great\u00a0class, booked onto a course to develop yourself, did your morning pages, tidied your studio or craft space, reached out to connect with other makers, gave up your day job, got a commission, sold some of your work, set up your online shop, learnt from something you did wrong on a piece, got some business cards printed, managed to squeeze in 15 minutes of making whilst caring for little<\/span> ones,\u00a0coped with feeling overwhelmed, called yourself an artist when someone asked you what you did….<\/p>\n

Stop and look back for a moment….what have you done? What have you achieved? What steps do you want to celebrate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to a new blog series called Steps on the Creative Path.\u00a0 This is the first post that explains the story behind the series.\u00a0 So many of us are coming alive to creative dreams, paying attention to the whispers in our heart which urge us\u00a0to\u00a0an authentic, creative\u00a0life. Some of us have been on that path […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,36,47,12,21,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artful-living","category-celebrating","category-creative-blogging","category-deep-thoughts-and-reflections","category-developing-as-an-artist","category-soulful-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}