Finding my Mojo again...

Creativity for me is a way to lift depression.  In July I started an online course called Soul Restoration through the Brave Girls website.  It has been very therapeutic to kind of reacquaint myself with my authentic self this summer, through art and introspection.  I have allowed myself to kind of go with the flow, just to paint, glue, journal with no rules, just let whatever comes out kind of flow freely.  I had let so much time pass by without spending a lot of time on creativity, which is such a big part of who I am.  The traumatic events of the past year kind of usurped my creative time, so it feels good to "make a mess on the dining room table" again.  The fact that my husband has been on a 3 week business trip helped me to really spend some quality "me time" with myself -- something that hasn't happened in a long time.

Something that I loved to do before my accident was scrapbook and make cards.  In fact I blogged about it up until April 2010, when life was starting to go kind of crazy.  I loved doing my papercrafting blog... in fact I wanted to start it up again after making a bunch of cards this weekend... but I got stuck because untechnological woman that I am, Wordpress has totally changed everything and I can't figure out how to use my old blog anymore... so I bit the bullet and started a new blog today, a fresh start from scratch.  I posted a little batch of Halloween cards I made -- it feels really good to have a little stack of new cards on the table.

In honor of Brave Girls, and the symbol of a bird that is used throughout the Brave Girls "message", I had to make some "birdie" cards as well.  Here is one of them...

 If you would like to make your own "birdie" card, feel free to use the graphic I created here:

My contentment level has risen quite a lot since I've made the time and effort to make space for creative play... it feels really good!