Here we are in January, damp and dismal. I don't mind the cold especially if it teams up with a sunny frosty morning but damp and dismal I can't stand.

I have just announced to the world, well, I put it on facebook that 2017 is the year in which I move to a bigger studio. I have been holding onto this thought for ages, frightened to do anything about it but at the beginning of January something shifted. Instead of feeling fear I started feeling excited about the prospect and announced it on social media and the response from my friends and customers has been so encouraging I look back thinking "What was I scared of?"
Not that I have a bigger studio to move into as such but I thought if I put it out there life will start moving things around to help me get to where I want to be. Because I truly believe, life is there supporting us all and is not "out to get us". And besides , life has been sending me messages that this is what I need to do.

Life even used David Bowie as a messenger. I was sitting listening to the radio last week and it was playing an old interview with David. He was talking about how life can become to comfortable. We keep our feet firmly on the ground but if we walk out into the river and keep walking to a point where our feet can no longer touch the bottom, where we push ourselves and start feeling uneasy, maybe a little frightened then that is where the most exciting things can happen.

*Can't you just see him as an angel sending out messages.*

Another message I got was from my beautiful friend Liz. She bought me a book for Christmas called "Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change" by Pema Chodron. It begins......

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark".
-Agnes De Mille

How beautiful is that!

2017....All Change!