In keeping with my New Years theme...I dug out an old journal and did a bit of end of the year reading. I found this question that I posed to myself... If your ART could tell why it exists, what would it say? My answers were to make someone smile, to lift a spirit and to give joy, style and color into everyday life.

I think my answer for my art would be the same this year. I would like it a step further and apply that question to another part of myself. If my spirit could say why it exists, what would it say? To have joy, joy lifts people spirits, and to somehow give hope to and encourage others. Maybe also to be original. An original spirit, people that tap into their originality (and yes God made us all completely original) as a general rule bring other people joy and inspire them. Now for the tough part of these questions...Am I conveying all that? Yikes. Well, it is nice to have goals and aspirations anyway. Sounds rather lofty but I guess if I wanted to convey all that I would definitely quit sweating the small stuff, since the small stuff can be distracting. You know what I am talking about, "Why do I have to unload the dishwasher AGAIN?" "Why is this line so LONG?" Whine, Whine, Me, Me. This year is going to be "Fun, Fun!" "Create! Create!" "Joy!" and a wee bit of eccentricity too.

By the way, my husband asked me yesterday, "How were you eccentric today?" Pressure! Geez...give a gal a break. All I could come up with was I polished off a bunch of brownies and followed it up with a salad to make it all seem OK. I think I better look up the word eccentric to see what it really means.

So this is a print I am playing with right now. I am going to have this made into a fabric and the prints in the corner are what I am experimenting to coordinate with it. I think it would make a cute apron!