Well I missed it.

I practiced and practiced... And then I missed my window of opportunity.  And here it took my 6 days to come up with the courage to try and launch myself out there, and I missed my connection.  In the grand scheme of things, it ain't no big thing.  I can still throw myself out there...

30 days to go....


I'll leave you with this:  the view from the back of my house.  The view that wasn't there 7 years ago when we bought the house.  The view that has taken my husband and I, 5+ years to create (he's the architect and the builder, I'm the designer and the landscaper), and the land that is 85% of the reason we decided to sink our teeth into this major project.

straight ahead.

to the right.  (sorry for the blurry pictures, it's raining and I'm learning)

This is where I poured all my creative energy for five of the last seven years.  Where I designed textures and colors to play off each other.  While I waited to create inside my home.  

It's beautiful, but I see a lot of work for me to do out there this winter. 

31 days Outside the C-Zone

I spent an unnecessary amount of time trying to figure out what title would be most appropriate for my '31 day' series.  I debated '31 days of exposing myself', but thought that might reach out to the wrong audience.

31 days outside my comfort zone translates to me taking the risk of living creatively and sharing (successes and the not so much) of this life of mine and dealing with the fear of rejection and judgement of you, the masses.  I have anxiety already. 

One of the main threads of this series will be how my family has taken a major risk and gone from this:

Old 'front' of house 2010 

Old 'back' of house 2011

To this:

New front (old back) of house 2013

New back (old front) of house 2013

This is still an on-going process, as you will see.  All this is going on while my family of 5 tries to continue with as normal a life as possible.  I hope you'll join me.

6 days before 31 Days

Today is the first day..but technically it's the 6th day before '31 days' begins, so does that make it the -6th day?

A new journey............
an honest journey.........

sometimes a hard journey....
if i'm being honest (see above) it's usually a hard journey in one way or another right?

a creative journey...
and most importantly a hopeful journey.  i think it's gonna be a good one.