Strength in the trunks

If I could sit across from my 30-year-old self for five minutes, this is what I’d tell her: 1️⃣ You have WAY LESS time than you think. Curve balls can come and skittle you. Embrace and have gratitude for each and every day. 2️⃣ Stop making decisions based on who might be disappointed. You will always disappoint some others. Just try not to disappoint yourself. Your life gets really small when everyone else’s comfort becomes more important than your own truth. Some people won’t understand your choices. Make them anyway. 3️⃣ Your body will eventually make you slow down if you refuse to. You think today is hard to move… when you’re nudging 70… don’t wait until tomorrow to try and move it more! Rest isn’t laziness. And constantly feeling exhausted isn’t just the price you have to pay for being successful. Stress causes illness. 4️⃣ Confidence comes AFTER you do the scary thing. Stop waiting to feel ready. Just get on with it!  Learn to say NO… and YES! 5️⃣ Wanting more doesn’t make you ungrateful. You can love your family.
Be grateful for your career.
Appreciate everything you’ve built. And still think: I want something different. Both can be true. 6️⃣ Your job is something you do. It’s not who you are. I never excelled at anything. I thought I was going to have a career. It didnt happen. My choices led me elsewhere. Your title, income, productivity, and accomplishments are not your worth. There’s an entire woman underneath all of those things. Don’t lose her. Hold her close. 7️⃣ Stop saving your dream life for “someday.” Do the thing. Wear the bling! Go on the trip. Drink the coffee while it’s hot. And start becoming the woman you keep imagining, or just BE the woman WITHOUT imagining! Because your life isn’t waiting for you in the future. It’s happening right now. My life has unfolded more than I ever could have imagined, but there have been costs which could have been avoided.  At 64, I don’t wish I’d worked harder. I wish I’d trusted myself sooner. Protected my peace sooner. Cared for myself sooner.  Respected myself sooner.  So…they are the things I would tell my younge

Yay! You’ve found a space here where you can grab some of my experience l, tips and ideas and use in your upcoming projects. I’m no expert weaver, but have a lifetime of experience as an artist, creator and weaver. I may even make you laugh! Come follow along and see where it leads your own projects!

I’m not an expert weaver, but share a lifetime of creative experience. I may even make you laugh along the way! Come follow to see what I make and grab all the tips and ideas which you may use in your own projects.

So glad you’ve found here! Welcome! I’m no expert but have a lifetime of experience as an artist, creator and weaver. I share heaps of tips and ideas for your weaving; regardless of whether you’re a newbie weaver or established fibre artist. I often present new ways of approaching your projects. I may even make you laugh! Come follow along and see where it leads your own projects!

*hiding under a pike of yarn! :). Welcome to my space here - where I share my non-expert; but lifelong experience of being a creative. Want to weave? Need some tips and new ideas? Congrats for finding my space! No gate keeping! I’ll share what I know as I weave! I may even make you laugh along the way!

There was a discussion! 🙂 Come along and noodle around my space to see the workings of a fun loving weaver.

Beginning weaving? Sharing my lifetime of creative process here, so you can learn about weaving, spinning and fibre arts; (and a few other life things in the mix!) and not make some of the unnecessary blunders I have! Grab a cuppa, noodle around my space and follow to see tips, ideas and how my projects evolve. I may even make you laugh.

Daunted to by start a project because you don’t want the uncertainty of wasting your time if it doesn’t ’turn out’? Want some direction on how to be more confident starting; then you need to see how other weavers approach their weaving for ideas. Pull up a chair to learn and follow my journeys of how I weave each piece, so that you can learn new ways so approaching your weaving.

If you are daunted by starting a project because you don’t want the uncertainty of wasting your time if it doesn’t ’turn out’; and you want some direction and ideas on how to be mor confident starting; then you need to see how other weavers approach their weaving. Pull up a chair to learn and follow my journeys of how I weave each piece, so that you can learn new ways so approaching your weaving.

If I could sit across from my 30-year-old self for five minutes, this is what I’d tell her: 1️⃣ You have WAY LESS time than you think. Curve balls can come and skittle you. Embrace and have gratitude for each and every day. 2️⃣ Stop making decisions based on who might be disappointed. You will always disappoint some others. Just try not to disappoint yourself. Your life gets really small when everyone else’s comfort becomes more important than your own truth. Some people won’t understand your choices. Make them anyway. 3️⃣ Your body will eventually make you slow down if you refuse to. You think today is hard to move… when you’re nudging 70… don’t wait until tomorrow to try and move it more! Rest isn’t laziness. And constantly feeling exhausted isn’t just the price you have to pay for being successful. Stress causes illness. 4️⃣ Confidence comes AFTER you do the scary thing. Stop waiting to feel ready. Just get on with it!  Learn to say NO… and YES! 5️⃣ Wanting more doesn’t make you ungrateful. You can love your family.
Be grateful for your career.
Appreciate everything you’ve built. And still think: I want something different. Both can be true. 6️⃣ Your job is something you do. It’s not who you are. I never excelled at anything. I thought I was going to have a career. It didnt happen. My choices led me elsewhere. Your title, income, productivity, and accomplishments are not your worth. There’s an entire woman underneath all of those things. Don’t lose her. Hold her close. 7️⃣ Stop saving your dream life for “someday.” Do the thing. Wear the bling! Go on the trip. Drink the coffee while it’s hot. And start becoming the woman you keep imagining, or just BE the woman WITHOUT imagining! Because your life isn’t waiting for you in the future. It’s happening right now. My life has unfolded more than I ever could have imagined, but there have been costs which could have been avoided.  At 64, I don’t wish I’d worked harder. I wish I’d trusted myself sooner. Protected my peace sooner. Cared for myself sooner.  Respected myself sooner.  So…they are the things I would tell my younge

Yay! You’ve found a space here where you can grab some of my experience l, tips and ideas and use in your upcoming projects. I’m no expert weaver, but have a lifetime of experience as an artist, creator and weaver. I may even make you laugh! Come follow along and see where it leads your own projects!

I’m not an expert weaver, but share a lifetime of creative experience. I may even make you laugh along the way! Come follow to see what I make and grab all the tips and ideas which you may use in your own projects.

So glad you’ve found here! Welcome! I’m no expert but have a lifetime of experience as an artist, creator and weaver. I share heaps of tips and ideas for your weaving; regardless of whether you’re a newbie weaver or established fibre artist. I often present new ways of approaching your projects. I may even make you laugh! Come follow along and see where it leads your own projects!

*hiding under a pike of yarn! :). Welcome to my space here - where I share my non-expert; but lifelong experience of being a creative. Want to weave? Need some tips and new ideas? Congrats for finding my space! No gate keeping! I’ll share what I know as I weave! I may even make you laugh along the way!

There was a discussion! 🙂 Come along and noodle around my space to see the workings of a fun loving weaver.

Beginning weaving? Sharing my lifetime of creative process here, so you can learn about weaving, spinning and fibre arts; (and a few other life things in the mix!) and not make some of the unnecessary blunders I have! Grab a cuppa, noodle around my space and follow to see tips, ideas and how my projects evolve. I may even make you laugh.

Daunted to by start a project because you don’t want the uncertainty of wasting your time if it doesn’t ’turn out’? Want some direction on how to be more confident starting; then you need to see how other weavers approach their weaving for ideas. Pull up a chair to learn and follow my journeys of how I weave each piece, so that you can learn new ways so approaching your weaving.

If you are daunted by starting a project because you don’t want the uncertainty of wasting your time if it doesn’t ’turn out’; and you want some direction and ideas on how to be mor confident starting; then you need to see how other weavers approach their weaving. Pull up a chair to learn and follow my journeys of how I weave each piece, so that you can learn new ways so approaching your weaving.