Fiber Arts Friday: Peaceful Morning

I love it when I wake up early, feeling rested.

I'll enjoy a warm cup of coffee and the quiet before everyone else gets up.

Spin a little yarn,

and watch the sun come up.

Happy Fiber Arts Friday!

Fiber Arts Friday: Space

Thanks to a generous gift, I decided to add a portable loom to my set of tools.... and after speaking with Hubba, we decided it should go in my office.

My office had become the landing area for all things that didn't have a place... and other things that had outgrown their place.

So I spent New Year's Eve preparing the space to receive my new loom.  As I worked, I contemplated the idea of making space for my passions and how to organize the house to better enable these.

My office now has re-organized space for my day job, fiber, farming, dogs, writing, and my collection of cook books.

There's a wide-open, space for my new loom.... It should be here in a few weeks.

On the morning of the new year, I spent time in my freshly organized office preparing and spinning yarn and thinking about how lovely it will be to have my new loom in this space.

Happy Fiber Arts Friday and Happy New Year!

Passion

I've been thinking a lot about my passions lately.

That sounds kind of funny... but I think if you don't spend some time thinking about where you are with what you want to do, eventually you're only doing what you HAVE to do and never what you WANT to do.

My passions mostly center around farming, ranching, alpacas, dogs, making things and being outside.  I do none of these things as part of my Day Job, but I do like my Day Job.

So my goal was to figure out why I like it and change the language in my head from how I'm not doing the above mentioned passionate things into I am doing something I enjoy.

After some contemplation, I figured out that I am doing a lot of teaching, mentoring and problem solving.  All of which I enjoy greatly.

So maybe it doesn't matter that the teaching, mentoring and problem solving have nothing to do with farming, ranching, alpacas, dogs, making things or being outside.  It does matter that I am helping people understand things, solving some of their problems, helping them figure out how to solve their own problems and building individual, professional relationships with each of the people I am working with.

This I have a passion for.