My horizon is a distant swath of color reflecting the beauty I will bring to the universe. It is all the paintings, drawings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings that I will create between now and then. The really cool think about the horizon is that we can never reach it. We can start walking and keep walking and the horizon remains ever distant. The allegory is that we always have things to do, to look forward to, to hope for. I will never run out of ideas!

Between me and the horizon are a lot of things to do. I have finished my design for the February Etsy Beadweavers Challenge and have begun working on designs for Valentines Day jewelry and greeting cards. I’ve started a painting of orchids and have begun thinking about a line of notecards featuring those wonderful plants. The path is very thick with ideas but good ideas aren’t enough; there need to be processes in place to help me complete all the projects I can imagine.

For those of you who wonder how much I put on paper before I start beading, here is my sketch of “Oceana,” the work I will be completing before 5 February 2010. In fact, I create more works without sketches than with them and I almost never draw anything more complete than this kind of sketch with preliminary notes.

OOAK bead weaving necklace sketches

What’s on your horizon? Is it what you want to see? Or is it something you want to change?

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