First, let me tell you a story about a girl that loves to sew. She didn't always love to sew, her mom tried to teach her with perfection as the goal, and it didn't take. But then one day, her mom let her borrow her machine, and she was free to make all of the mistakes in the world, and she did, but she stuck with it. Meanwhile, when it came time to think about careers, she thought she wanted to be a photographer, or an actress, or a painter, but those didn't take on their own. She was always back to the sewing machine. She worked here and tried other things. Coming from a most encouraging family of artists, she felt free to follow many creative pursuits. Then one day she and her hub, and two little dogs, moved to NYC, Brooklyn to be exact. There she was inspired to create and dream, and was encouraged along the way by this little shop. She began to see a way to create art that was truly her own, sewing and stitching and dyeing and drawing. Then she and her hubs realized, we could have a house and a yard and have the time and space to make art...if we were back in Nashville. So they packed up the pups and moved back down south. She worked with an amazing talent. She met some amazing people from all over the world. She and her hub often miss NYC but exciting things were beginning to happen in Nashville. They opened a sewing school. She helped out at this place, learned a lot, and met some amazing people. She had a show of her art at a gallery, and people actually bought the art. A friend invited her to sell her art. She started working on a secret project, actually, two. She began to dream up ideas of making sewing patterns and creating sewing videos. And then she tried this. And it was a big challenge, but she wanted to follow a dream. Then, all of the people helped. ALL of her people, both near and far, HELPED. And she saw her dream coming closer and closer. And then even MORE people helped. And her people that had already helped, they helped more. Like this, this, this, this and this too and then other things over here and here that were done by so, so, so, so many friends she couldn't even believe! Not to mention this list, which made her cry. Beautiful, wonderful tears of thankfulness and joy. Then she rolled up her sleeves, and got to work.
And the moral of the story is, do it. Whatever your IT is, pursue it with all of your might. You have gifts, use them.
I spent all weekend uttering the words "wow", "I can't believe it", and through happy tears "We did it!"
I can't wait to share this journey with you. And I plan to share every step of the way.
With gratitude in my heart.
More soon.
****Some of you have asked if you can still help, and the answer is yes! You can pledge at the same reward levels as I had over on Kickstarter, through paypal. E-mail me what you would like and I am happy to send you the info. On paypal I'm sakidesignspurses at yahoo dot com you can always just send the amount you wish and add in your reward request! See the rewards here.
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 11:34AM 
