Inspiration for a joyful and creative life

I miss the days of helping my son design and create Halloween costumes.  I have fond memories, and hope he does too, of making costumes to help him turn his ideas into a reality.

One year, he wanted to be a character that he drew.  I helped him to draw out a pattern and taught him to sew the basic pieces.

There is something magical about bringing your imagination your life.  That is one of the things I love about creating.

You have an idea and you follow it through.  It may not always turn out how you planned and often it is even better because you never know what challenges you will meet along the way.

Sometimes pretending can give you’re the creative confidence you need.

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My son says I am pumpkin “obsessed”.

That weekend that I came home with a pumpkin to display, a six pack of America’s Original Pumpkin Ale by Buffalo Bill’s Brewery, and ingredients to continue my quest to make the best pumpkin pie.

Obsessed? Perhaps.

As soon as the calendar turns to September, I crave pumpkin delicacies of all sorts. Pumpkin muffins and bread, pumpkin pie, and pumpkin ravioli.

One of our favorite restaurants has a delectable pumpkin pie with a graham cracker crust that is only available for about 6 weeks in the fall.

I also love the look of pumpkins that come in a range of sizes and colors, each with their own personality.

I’m not sure if it’s my love of fall with the colors and briskness in the air or the fact that pumpkins are only available a couple months of the year but there is something about them that simply delights me. So, I go with it.

My tip of the month to you is that if something delights you, go with it.

When you find things that delight you, it is not something to ignore.

Delight will also give you clues to answering questions about yourself.

And as you see in the picture above, I’ve put the six pack container to use and filled it with bottles of orange and red flowers, the last of our summer flowers beginning to fade. The fun black cat is a papier mache pen made by Johanna Parker, an artist who specializes in Halloween and Holiday collectibles.

By the way, my son said the pumpkin pie I made was the best one yet.

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I don’t know about you, but I can never get too much inspiration.

I think we all need to have our dreams and aspirations reaffirmed because it can be way too easy to come up with reasons that lead you away.

You are too busy.
You don’t know enough.
You can’t compete with what is already out there.
Who are you to think you can do it.
Oh, it’s just a silly idea.

The harder road is to keep going. Keep plugging away, even when you aren’t sure where it’s going. Even when you don’t know what you are doing.

Because your heart tugs at you to be yourself, to do things your own way. You would think that is easy but it’s not.

We are all so conditioned to compare ourselves and to think we aren’t enough.

I found this video on U-tube through Kelly Rae Roberts, a talented mixed media artist.

Kelly Corrigan, best selling author of Lift and The Middle Place has these inspiring words for all of us. Take 4 minutes to be inspired today.

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