Essential to Creativity

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Isn’t it funny how you can have a little lull in life, and just when everything has slowed down and you feel you’ve caught your breath, a million and one things are added to your to do list? I’m not trying to complain; I would definitely rather be busy designing rather than twiddling my thumbs. It’s just funny how life is sometimes.

Since last week we picked up three more clients! We are really excited about the new projects, one of which is another wedding! We just finished the save the dates for the other wedding we are working on right now, and they are suposed to be ready to pick up from the printers today. I can’t wait to see how they turned out.

There is a quote by Hal Riney (thanks to my blog friend Katherine for finding it for me) that says, “The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don’t have any idea about where they’re going to come from tomorrow.” I can completely relate to that. I’m always a little worried that I’ll have a creative block I can’t break through. Or that I’ll just be uninspired. That quote goes hand it hand with the one above. Creativity isn’t about perfection and efficiency. It’s about exploration and then perfecting what you come up with. Most of the time the first ideas aren’t the best ideas anyway.

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