A Wrap Up of Our Creative September and a New Beginning

It all started with a creative week in August. I pulled out my pastels I’d always been intending to use and did a little dabbling. And a light went off in my head. Why couldn’t I put myself to a month of creativity straight, ask to be accountable to my online tribe and at the end I’d have a creative habit! Well let me tell you, I have a whole lot more than that. I have proof of Our Creative September!

Right as I was announcing that I was about to launch My creativity challenge September, I had a lovely lady as me if she could join in. Sure I said, thinking this would be cool to have company. And then another woman asked to join. Of course I said, do you think we need a hashtag?

What transpired after that was pure pagic as a small group of us gathered encouragement and inspiration from each other, creating daily under the hashtag #OurCreativeSeptember. So unexpected, so yummy, so community.

As each week went by and I did my round-ups, I spoke of what it was that I had gotten out of the challenge thus far. The first week, this is what I said,”In making the practice non-negotiable, you begin to build a trust with yourself. Anxieties stand down and make room for you to express and devote to yourself through your challenge.” I began to be less critical and more open to what might happen.

Week two, I was astonished at the change.”This daily arting endeavor is changing me. I knew it would. I just had to commit to allowing for it to change me. I used to use creativity as a thing to torture my inner child with mean “No you can’t go out and play until you eat your broccoli” kinda stuff. And my inner child was kept from her one true love, seeing what she could make. And then being proud of herself.”

latoyaburton_musing.
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GATEWAYS
(to same path ~ many quests)

all seeking the same thing.
choosing different storylines to get there.
speaking different spells to create the experience.
all seeking the same thing.
all have a vision
a dream
all seeking the same thing
all on a mission to find the happiness + love we came here to remember

be wonderful
♡
LaToya

Week three brought a larger ease to my everyday.”Having moved through the cloud of resistance, I am now stepping into create mode very quickly. As a given now, I don’t have to grapple with “if”. As for the when of the creating, I try to think and not think about it. Like if you talk about going to a movie too much, you’ll talk yourself right out of going. The creativity needs to be both slightly spontaneous and slightly planned.”

As if these weren’t lessons enough, I also got the gift of camaraderie and company from all the other women who joined in. We had a ceramicist, collage artists, watercolorists, scrapbookers, and sketch artists. I developed a newfound confidence in my pastel work and started a mix medium series of watercolored encyclopedia pages with pasteled bugs that seems to be a community favorite. We were all finding our strides and our self pride and that was the Magic.

So we’ve decided to continue our daily creative efforts together with a new hashtag of #OurCreativeSelves on Instagram . If you were to search that tag there, you’d see what we’ve been up to and you could take an opportunity to cheer us on and be inspired. We’d like that.

I thank all my fellow creatives and everyone who cheered us on during our month of making. We’ll continue onward in our heroic creative journeys knowing you get what it means.

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