Are You Stuck in One Rhythm?
Over the past year, I’ve been in a big creative birthing process. That rhythm of making is so comfortable that I don’t often want to break it. To keep making more and more and more. It often feels like a healthy rhythm because it’s about flow and less about judgment or perfection.
But, OMG, there’s a whole other part to the birthing process. It’s more than making the thing; it’s also about getting the thing out into the world. Evolution and growth are our very lifeblood.
This is also a very important component of building a business. Which is what I want to build, which means I’ve got to be seen as do my products.
Spring has sprung, encouraging each of us to emerge.
MONTHLY REMINDER TO SWITCH UP THE RHYTHM
I also see this monthly reminder on the Taming the Tangle Moon Calendar that hangs over my desk. In addition to those larger seasonal cycles, there’s the monthly rhythm. The moon is only dark one day a month. This darkness, or inward time, ripples out to a few days before and after. But even the moon changes day to day and moves towards shining bright and then cycles back out again. She does not hold steady in one set phase. Ugh. Neither should I. Thank you, Moon, for the lesson.
IN SERVICE TO FREEDOM
Making and designing are so much about creative problem solving. I also love bringing beauty and simplicity. But everything I make has an eye towards freedom. Offering freedom and lightness. Showing a new way. Undoing some programming and opening to possibility.
How are these “things” gonna achieve all that just sitting in my studio???
BEGINNER’S MIND: STARTING OVER
That’s the challenge of being back at the beginning again. Starting a new business and building it creatively.
With jewelry, it unfolded naturally and intertwined with my graphic design career until it became my main focus. I’ve sold online, had a brick and mortar, freelanced, done custom work, and taught both online and in person. This new adventure — Taming the Tangle — will surely be some mixture of the above with products and workshops and experiences blending together.
Groundwork is still being formed even as the very ground itself continues to shift.
The 2020 Taming the Tangle Moon Calendar is available at a few stores around the US. All stores are listed on the Taming the Tangle Stockists page. I’d love to see this expand this year, but what a whole new world we are in. I have all these retail shops in my heart as they add so much to the personalities of our communities.
I’m also building the Taming the Tangle Online Store where new products are being listed every month. The 2020 Moon calendar is available here as well as playful stickers. Other magickal tools and jewelry will be added throughout the Spring.