A Rainy Day

It is late. I have been thinking about this blog all day. There is so much happening in our business right now. Kt and I have been organizing our thoughts, priorities,and just trying to keep up with creating our new ETSY.com store. KT is really the struggling and learning artist that turns her left brain on and does great work with our internet based business. It seems to me that even though she is so much younger than me, I am learning quite bit from her. She is very patient with me.  I seem to have so many questions.As you all know by now, we are downsizing our business. In the beginning my dreams were much grander, I wanted a staff, and I wanted 40 artists to work for me so that I could make art workshops available to the public in my small Northern California town. I was so naive,and broken hearted after six months in this studio. I needed to remember what my passion is and how I had lost it. So, I looked at my vision board. It was built about 6 months before I began looking for a building. My vision board said it all. I could see my vision, it was all about family, and teaching my craft to women who were progressive in their thinking. And what magical places that I wanted to visit when I became successful. There was much more on this collage than my dreams, my love of life was on that board, each passion evident, and in the middle of this vision board was a nice stack of money. Yup, money.  I had reached a point in my life that I was ready to go public. I had to, I was in dialysis for the last seven years and and now I am 61 with a new kidney. I knew that once I got a kidney at my age that I would not be so hireable ( I have many credentialed skills) and realizing that I just wanted to do art I told myself that it is time to reach for my dreams.Now, as the way of life, there is also the way of business. We have to move from this retail environment to a place that will give us serenity. A place where we can focus on developing an internet based business and creating our visions in glass and offer them up for sale. That is the driving force now, feel serenity, feel passion, and feel love of the glass. That love will truly transcend when we create your visions in glass. By the way, this new studio is a small town near Trinidad, Ca. As well, it is on the top of a small mountain and it sits high enough above the redwood tree line that one can see the ocean. It is a great barn on 40 acres with a couple of houses, and true extended family, and they are artists too. This was a part of my vision board, a house in the woods. It seems that the vision keeps developing. Nice to realize. Until my next chatter,
In Spirit, Maureen Rose www.EternalSourceGlass.com