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Visualize your Organized Life

January 7, 2013 by Heather Filed Under: Inspiration & Education, Organize, Wellness & Mindset

As part of Get Organized month I’m sharing some of the big (& small) ways I use to set my intention and get going on the right footing for the new year.  The first thing I did was set my intention with a word of the year.  This year it’s all about being Radiant!

The next step in my practice for BIG (annual) planning/organizing/strategizing & goal setting is creating an Vision Board.  I started this practice back in 2011 and over the last couple years I’ve been so amazed at how fun it is to choose where I want to go and set it down in a concrete visible way.  Some people call these Vision Boards others call them Action boards (for those that feel the word “Vision” is to pie-in-the-sky).  There are many ways to create these boards via fancy software, fun apps, images, text, or even Pinterest.  I just go with the good old fashion cut and paste from magazines (which I always have on hand)!

How does this help you get organized?  If you feel there are areas in which you would like a different outcome in your life try creating a vision board to activate and attract what you want to accomplish and how you envision it in ideal reality.  Use images and words that feel the way you want to feel about your space and your life.

Visualize your Organized Life

2013 Vision Board

I prefer one that is all words/text and in a month or two I may create another board with images.  For me the clarity of a text board is more appealing and I find it easier to find specific words (rather than images that convey a feeling). I’ve been very careful about how I combine the words I place on my board to draw into my life the specific intentions I desire.  When I’m finished I keep it in either my office or studio (alternating) & check in with it for inspiration throughout the year, if I come across something I need to add, I’ll do that as well.

However you want to create your board and whatever you call it, just know that by being very clear about what you want to manifest in your life and putting it down in a concrete way you are more likely to draw attention to theses aspects of yourself (actions, thoughts, etc).  It’s all about the law of attraction.  When I look back at the last years vision boards I’m truly amazed at the ways in which the specific wishes, desires, dreams and actions have been attracted into my life!

This year, I’ve chosen words that are bigger and bolder in both action and font/colors; I’m reaching for even more!
How do you envision the next year?  What do you want to attract and are you creating any type of vision board to activate the process?

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Making room for Dreams!

January 31, 2012 by Heather Filed Under: Inspiration & Education, Photography 1 Comment

Wow, January went by fast!   Instead of setting a bunch of goals and resolutions for myself I decided to take a different approach to preparing myself for the year to come.  A big reason for our move to SC is to live the life we have DREAMED of living!  So, I’ve spent the better part of the month digging deeper, visioning, exploring the possibilities and really allowing myself to dream of what my life can be if I get out of my own way!

I love what Kahlil Gibran writes about dreams in The Garden of the Prophet; “You grow in sleep, and live your fuller life in your dreaming.”

I am exercising my ability to open to my dreams is by taking the online Mondo Beyondo Dream Big in the New Year course.  So far we are about half way through and the daily exercises have invited me to explore my hidden dreams.  What I’ve come to realize is that sometime after graduation from college I kind of forgot how to dream!   This may sound crazy but when I left school I had dreams of becoming a well known designer, designing my own line of products (or license designs) and traveling to exciting and inspiring locations.  Part of this dream came true but I also let insecurity creep in and listened to the naysayers until I eventually buried my own dreams in the daily grind.  It’s taken some coaxing but I’m slowly un burying those dreams, bringing them back to the surface, inviting the possibility of new dreams into my life and casting off the ones that I’ve decided I no longer need to hold onto.

Creating a vision board is one powerful way I’m expressing what I dream for my life.  In the past I’ve done vision boards with images but this time I decided to stick with words, which were easier to find and I added my own where I could not find them in magazines etc.  Words are very powerful and now I’ve got this vision board in a place where I can be reminded every day what I’m attracting into my life.

I am learning that allowing myself to dream involves faith and casting aside my worries.  I took this literally and wrote each worry on a shell and cast them into the ocean.  Now, each time a worry automatically creeps in and threatens those tender sprout’s of my dreams I remember that I’m no longer going to feed my worries, they are gone, out of my hands and cast to the sea.

As I’ve been exploring the possibilities of my dreams I’ve met some fantastic people including Business Coach, Mary Anna Lewis.  During a Dreams and Visions strategy session with her I wrote out “my perfect day” which was a truly powerful exercise!  I invite you go give it a try.  You can use any format you like, I used a letter as if I was writing to a dear friend who I hadn’t spoken to in awhile, telling them all about my life in general and explaining in more detail about how I spend a typical day.  I was asked to share this letter with the other participants that day and voicing it out loud gave it even more power!  Eveyone in that room said they could see me living it! 

Texture Tuesday-Kim Klassen “Confidence” texture (one of several layers)

Allowing yourself to really dream can be a scary proposition for some people.  If you haven’t actively allowed yourself to dream for awhile it might take some practice to get back into that place where you can let go of your own limitations, worries and rules.  When was the last time you sat down and wrote down some dreams?  Isn’t it time you do so?  Don’t let your life go by without really living the life you’ve dreamed of!

Textile Tuesday::Quilt Market Tools-N-Treasures

October 29, 2013 by Heather Filed Under: Art & Design, Inspiration & Education, Organize, Tips & Resources

I just returned from my first Quilt Market…(I’m no longer a #QMVirgin)!  It was completely inspiring, overwhelming, amazing, fun and EXHAUSTING…in a good way.  Before I crash I wanted to share a couple hilights from my trip and I’ll be sharing more over the next week or two.  First of all, let me tell you WHY I went to Houston.  In August I was offered an opportunity to do some consulting to help launch a new brand product called FabricMaker!  I won’t get totally into the details here because some of you read my blog for more organizing related stuff…others for the textile goodies.  I’ll give you a bit of both.

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Here’s our booth from the Market.  I helped to design some of the pattern collections and was excited to be at the market for the official product launch!

So, what is FabricMaker?  I think I’ve got this down after 3+ days of telling everyone…it’s the first Commercial Quality, Pigment Based Digital Fabric printing system available!  What?  That means you can use the matched system of special pigment based inks to PRINT YOUR OWN FABRIC’S…ON DEMAND and know that you will be able to wash them without them fading and they are fade resistant and archival!  You no longer have to order your fabric printed through services like Spoonflower (although I have LOVED them for what they have brought to the market over the past 8+yrs).  Parent company, Sawgrass Technologies has been working on the product development for this for about 18 months now due to demand in the market for lower priced options for digital fabric printing technology.  We will have a lot to respond to in the market as we learn who and how this new tool will be used but it’s full of exciting potential and it’s affordable (prices start at $500 for the small system-including ink, fabric and printer).  It’s crazy amazing, I’ve got one of my own I’ve been playing with and I can’t wait to see what other people make with them.

I’ll keep you posted on what develops with this…on to some other tools and treasures I found at market!

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There were a few really cool digital tools but I think my favorite was the Slice Cordless Digital Die Cutter.  So small and simple to use!  Sizzix and Silhouette are great systems too!

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Some of great new “analog” tools I learned about included the super strong, amazing selection of Tulip Artistic Needles…

 

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…and Clover’s Weaving Sticks (as a weaver I love to see others begin weaving).  I haven’t used the weaving sticks but there is a review over at The Zen of Making.

For my organizing readers here are a couple super great products I found and am excited to share!  I don’t have a picture (so the one below is from their website) of the Reisenthel bags but they have a bunch of great models including the original Carrybag and are beautifully made!

 

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Another very high quality bag I now love (along with the sassy owner of the company:) are Yazzii Mulit-Functional organizers.

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And I’m saving the best of the organizing resources for last are these Fabric Organizers by DeNiece Designs.  I love, love, love them and how did I not know about them before now?  They remind me of my retail days folding tee shirts with folding boards.

Hopefully this gave you a small taste of some of the fun goodies at Quilt Market but I’ll be back with actual Textiles, designers, pattern makers and more inspiration!

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