I have many passions, a few of which I’ve actually had the opportunity to explore. I love paper crafts as well as digital and computer crafts. I love designing digital scrapbooking products and putting them to use. Recently, I’ve also re-discovered the tactile beauty of both paper and fabric. I get so wrapped up in sewing pretty things, the day sometimes slips by virtually unnoticed, while both laundry and dishes pile up. I also like making jewelry, especially earrings, which are the only kind of jewelry I wear regularly. My original passion, the one that has consumed me the longest is creative writing, which happens also to be the one I neglect the most often, because . . . well, because it consumes me so much there is not room for much else.
So now you see why my site and my store are called A Happy Distraction. It is because I almost can’t help myself. I get so focused on sewing that I sometimes neglect my paper crafts. When I finally shift gears, I get all wrapped up in digital scrapbooking that I forget about the box of pretty fabric in my living room. And then, when I find myself immersed in pretty piles of paper, I lose focus in all the rest. That’s not to mention the laundry, the dishes, the floors and the cooking that I, as a mom and wife, am supposed to be responsible for. And every once in a while, when all is calm and at peace, and I have a moment to really think deeply, I get to put my pen to paper and release some of what builds up in me.
I doubt my passions will ever be satisfied and most likely there will be ever more to Distract me. But that is the nature of my life and perhaps someday I’ll stop finding ways to be inspired. But I doubt it . . .
