Creativity and Design are Enmeshed in Who I Am

I was brainstorming and I already have designs for my next four violins. It’s exciting for me to make such beautiful violins and to be able to hear them is even better. I got totally vulnerable and shot video of me playing the Amber Violin. That will be part eight of the Amber playlist of videos. I’m hoping to get my instructor to play it for me too.

I thought it might be too much to show every little thing I do as I make the violins, like the time it takes to sand it, or layer on the stain. So, with my next one I did it all in two videos with lots of editing. I honestly am not sure which is the better way. Maybe somewhere in between. I will try that next time and see how it goes.

I’m made to make art and to be creative. Getting to do that with the violin is special to me. I love to lose myself in music and in art. I surrender to the Creative Spirit within, and the ideas flow freely. All my career I had to be creative more than 40 hours per week. I learned how to set everything aside and get to it.

I always keep a sketchbook or journal with me. If something happens that raises my emotions, I write about it quickly, close the book and push it aside. Then I can be creative. It’s a form of compartmentalizing my life. I leave the drama, fear, self-sabotage, unbelief, doubt, and worry in that book. I still feel symptoms of having a traumatic childhood, as many of us do.

Creativity and Design free me to be who I am made to be. I can’t imagine a life without artistic freedom. Creating. Putting my hands to work makes me happy and fulfilled because it’s part of my purpose.

Do you know your purpose yet?