Creative 365: Day 17 more bohemian bedroom additions & playing with icicle images

Today I took the textures I made with the photos of icicles and used them to create two new digital images.

My mother has been in the hospital since early this week, and so I have been unable to sleep and have found myself playing around with a lot of images and losing myself in 'mindless' creative things, just goofing around with effects I've never tried and looking for images to meld together with those I have snapped myself.  My mom is a very creative spirit herself, and it has felt right to be experimenting with different ideas even if some of them will never go any further than a post here on my blog. 

I have been creating my own space, a retreat where I can re-energize, meditate, read, create. When I make my thrift stores trips, I have been looking not only for things to recycle and repurpose in my art, but things for my room as well.  Yesterday after visiting mom I went rummaging and found a variety of colorful sheer window panels and a few new pillows. Slowly it is coming together, piece by piece!

new pillows and more fabric on the wall

Sunlight through the sheers

window by all of my candles and incese, a collection growing as well

When spring comes, I intend to paint what walls I've not covered in fabric yet!  I also have a sheer canopy coming for over my bed. More photos to come! 

what am I thinking?

As May sits right around the corner, and with it, graduation, I have found myself sitting here wondering about the future. It is a bit odd for me, as these last years I have sort of been a 'live in the moment' person because whenever I use to think about what lay ahead and envision what I think it should be, it always ended up being something different all together.  I firmly believe that I am where I should be, and am happier in my life now then I was twenty years ago. My life is full, and other than the wish that my finances were a bit more stable, I really don't find myself wanting for much.

I am very happy that I went back to college for my associate degree in graphic design. I have learned so much, but now I want more. Twenty years ago when I was a student at Minnesota State-Mankato, I spent a few years as an art major. I was young and without real direction and I know now that I was not ready for the creative commitment necessary to be an artist. I am now, and hungry for it. So, I am going after it, and I think, if things pan out as I hope they will, this fall I will find myself back at Minnesota State in pursuit of either a BFA in Studio Art or BA in Art History.

Love this Space! I want my kitchen to look like this!

I have also started re-decorating small spaces of my home, wanting to reflect the changes within me over the last handful of years. I have stumbled upon a few images that really touched me, and as I have made my trips to the thrift shops and markets, I have looked for similar treasures, listening to my heart instead of my head as to the practicality of the things I might find. If it feels good to me, it's going to be mine.

Would love to sleep here!