Spring is in the air

Yes.  Sunshine.  Daffodils.  a little bit of warmth.  SO looking forward to the return of summer.  I am not a fan of winter.  Not after all that Christmas stuff anyway.  Winter is cold and dark and I am longing for light and warmth.

What has been happening? It feels as if not much.  Hub has been really ill, and I have stepped into all the childcare associated with not having another grown up around.

I have kind of been working on the  inside.  Shifting things slowly and underneath the surface.  I have decided to combine my different lines into one website.  I will be working with a copywriter on Wednesday regarding this.  I feel it is time to up my professional face.  I don't want to look cobbled together anymore.  My work is valuable and helps people a lot and I get great results and fabulous feedback.  SO I want my  - shop window  - so to speak - to be coherent with that.  I want a nice looking home for myself online.

So I am working on that.  Considering Squarespace for the interim.  And taking it from there. 

Website Home = beautiful, coherent, welcoming, clear
Back on the no sugar diet (doing no wheat this week as well - I like a challenge)

working with Ebonie

Working with a coach. 

Its a good thing.  So far.  Though weird.  Having someone kind of ask me and prompt me in the same way that I do to them.  I am, by this process, forcing myself into to committing to someone else to certain actions.  And because it is to someone else, I am doing them.  Why I can't or don't do these myself I don't know.  Because I know what to do.  However, our brains are tricky creatures and we can talk ourselves out of one thing and into another (procrastination activities anyone?  - hang on let me just hoover that rug as that speck of fluff is so damn annoying....)

It is helping break inertia on some key actions.  Also I just learned I am more introverted than I thought.  And I also learned that I am prone to do a LOT of research and the WHY of anything is deeply important to me. 

Anyway.  To some extent this is a displacement activity and I need to crack on with my shit.

I just wanted to process my thoughts on the whole experience so far.  That is also something that was pointed out to me! ha! I need to process and digest.  and Yes I do.

But for further commitment.  Here are my actions.

1. get some copy for a Get Stuff Done flyer DONE.  and DONE (to define this as ticked off my list) means.  I have some writing, a paragraph,  for a flyer that explains in simple terms how my simple straighforward business is helpful and valuable to my people.  I am happy with it and I have prepared it ready to put into a flyer

2. I have designed and created a flyer I am happy with

3. I have some flyers I am proud of in my hand to hand out  / put up / leave out at Yoga class and Art class.

My People (by the way) are (not exclusively - but generally)
Creative Entrepreneurs
Parents
Want to, or do already, express their Creative side
Want to live their best life
Understand the value of, and are willing to invest in, help to achieve this
Value the arts and education
Believe in positive change and creating a better world
Like Yoga
Look after themselves

Art Journaling: Loving it

I am really REALLY enjoying art journaling at the moment.  My last session at No 45 Brighton was full and I just LOVED teaching it.  I loved the looks of concentration, of people immersed in the messes they were making.  I am very happily in my element with it right now. 

Showing My Work. Progress So Far

Today I initiated various good things.  I decided that I am going to exhibit at Suffolk Open Studios in June this year.  Partly in Southwold as part of the festival.  OK as part of the Fringe Festival - we will be in Beach Hut 108 and also in a garage in Reydon.  This will be in the last week of June.

I haven't yet decided which weekends I will be at the Open Studios in June.  But I will be there at least 2 of them.

I am really excited about this.

Also yesterday, chatting with Annabelle (Who runs No 45 - the venue where I have been hosting the Wild Art Journaling sessions) turns out we both have this idea of pulling together an at cost Creative Retreat for us and some close friends - all of whom will have skills to offer.  I have had this idea, seedling in my head for years.  Based on a post by Kelly Rae Roberts.  (which I will find and link to here I promise)  but it took that conversation and her dreaming the same dream to give it momentum.  Its not just me thinking about stuff.  Things always need one other person to say, yes I want to do that too.  Well not always.  But it makes it manifest somehow.  And more fun. 

That is all so far.

2015

None of my posts are particularly thought through sort of things.  I prefer to write by the fly.  For better or worse.  This is how I work.  I just go.

Well I wrote a huge piece.  But there is this etiquette that you just don't write about other people.  So I am not going to post it.

I want to get back to what this blog was for me.  Its a place where I am honest and myself and I talk and share about how I am getting stuff done and where I am at on the path towards my dreams.

Dreams change I guess.  Or they shift, move and grow.  I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about where I want to go.  And also about where I am coming from.

I did a vision board with Annabel Nichol.  She has a beautiful eco home with a space out the back to run workshops in.  I do my art journaling there.  I am going to share it here.

The way she does it, is that you get into a free head space, and you work intuitively, pulling pictures you like, and working quickly so it comes from a place that is not too considered to trying too hard.

It was such a lovely day.  Totally loved it and I totally love my vision board.

I have also been working through Fabeku's Super Power notion.  Its what you give that no one else can, distilled down to a nugget 2 word zinginess that resonates and you use to formulate everything.

Likewise, just before Christmas - well, in November.  I was feeling very stuck and I decided to hire a coach.  I came across a local lass called Ebonie Allard and something about her story clicked with me.  And I took the plunge.  She works with a similar super power idea, or it feels similar after I started doing the super power process.  Its 3 words and mine are Peaceful Presence, Glee and Bestness.  Bestness needs some work.  Or it encompasses a specific set of words for me.  All of this work is about getting to the core of who I am in the world.

And the vision board too, I guess.  Its about who I am now. Perhaps all dreams, desires,  aims and everything are just a picture of who we are now.

Ebonie's work is going to get more pragmatic though.  I have to be specific and create a less vague trajectory.  With numbers, days, time spent and milestones on it.  Its is incredibly difficult!  But I am working on it.  This work will also be about growing my business.  And somehow I need to bring the Get Stuff Done and the Creatiing my Life and the Moyra Scott Art together.  Its all my work.  Its all my business.

PS super power so far is Presence and Flow.  But it has to shimmer and sparkly and be lit up.  OH yes.

Or Shining Presence.  ah.  Still working on it. 

New Years Eve

So I am thinking about next year.  And setting intentions.  Already. I will be doing a huge review of the year.  and on the 4th I shall be creating a vision board at No 45.  Its time to kick some ass.  As they say.  Things moved a LOT in 2014.  I taught many many art classes, I earned money as an Art Teacher (outside of the box - one of my dreams, yes) I have been teaching Yoga all year at least once a week.  I am now earning money as an experienced Yoga teacher.  I am now earning money as an experienced Creative Productivity Coach (or some such word / moniker  - still working on what the hell that work is called) I didn't go on holiday.  But that felt OK.  We got ourselves out from Debt to Credit with enough money saved for next year's Tax bill. And we are on course to know what 2016 bill will be - by April.  So we can prepare for that too. 

Art wise, I took myself on an art retreat (at my folks) and painted for 3 days.  (I might prefer to do this in company?) I have a lot of work to do to paint better pictures and develop my style. (I may try a 100 pictures in 100 days challenge) or a painting a week? (52 for this 2015)

I have set up a business with Lisa Wright to take Art Journaling into businesses.  We ran our first dummy workshop just before Christmas.  It went well.  Next step.  sell one to a business. 


I ran 6 k (in the mud) and gave up sugar for 8 weeks.  I am not sure about running again but I will definitely give up sugar again.  

We have decluttered A LOT.

Christmas was good. 

I have got some new trainers on the way, and my wardrobe has only clothes I use and love in it.  I have pretty much everything I need (just some new UGG type boots to go)

I have hired a coach to help me for the start of this year.  I will see how it goes and may continue with that - getting the help I need to build my businesses and grow.

I am preparing my wish list and my yearly review at the moment.  I have lots of ideas and feel really good about where everything is going.  Lots to do, but a lot of clarity and purpose to get it done. 

Yes.  2015 will be good

Christmas Spirit

It started slowly.  Well, in fact it felt as if there was no Christmas Mojo at all.  I realised I was at a point where my childhood Christmas had gone, and I wasn't able to recreate it.  Bit of what I consider absolutely necessary for a "good Christmas" were missing.  Its not the same now.  And I need to reconfigure what it means, and, how to create it from here on in.

I'd have thought that having a 7 year old in the house, that it would be a done deal that Christmas was exciting.  Truth is, that my husband is the most excited about Christmas.  My son seems weirdly ambivalent.  I think its in some form of contrariness set against his dad's over enthusiasm.   But the other day when the suggestion of getting a tree was met with a decidedly unenthusiastic sigh, "do we have to? I don't want one...." that I felt my own spirits droop somewhat. 

WHat is going on?  I did a whole art journaling session on this Christmas thing.  And I know its something I need to create.  What IS Christmas? What does it mean? How do we express it in our family, now.  And how do I express it? Given the uphill struggle ness I feel I am meeting. 

I know the Christmas spirit is about generosity.  Of feasting and warmth and good cheer.  And I have to make this happen.  Or find it.

So in the end, we didn't go and buy a tree.  We got "Shabby Davy Dexter" in from the garden.  Shabby is a pot grown tree we got the year before last.  We got a pot grown tree so that we could pop it out in the garden and bring it in the following year.  When we bought it, it was already a bit on the Shabby side.  Yup, we name our trees... We have had a few, and mostly we used to plant them in my parents garden.  WE have had, Susan, Kris Kringle, I think there was a Nigel.... I know.  Its an odd thing.  I blame my husband.  I'd have bought a normal tree and it would have been composted, but Hub felt that it was wrong to chop down trees.....

Anyway, I am totally digressing.  Shabby Davy Dexter was put in the garden but to all extents and purposes he seemed to have died.  And then suddenly he sprang back to life.  Green shoots grew forth from the brown twiggy tree.  Needless to say he looks even more mishapen and shabby than he did when we bought him.  He is very lopsided and there is a lot of brown stick to him. 

But we brought him in and gave him the tinsel and light treatment.  And just like dead Shabby, with this, my Christmas has begun to grow green shoots. 

I am working on the list of things that  - to me - make for "Christmas"  And my mojo is building.   my list, as well as generosity of spirit, warmth, and decorations..... includes; drinking with friends, pantomines and home made Christmas cards . Twinkling lights, home made mince pies, decking the halls with holly and ivy, mulled wine, feasting and  - probably more drinking with friends, family and more good cheer.... hurrah.