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Glow Stars Purple Pink Anklet I hesitate to say I've got my Mojo back, because it seems whenever I say that something happens that squashes it again. Maybe I'm just repairing my Mojo, or nurturing the small shoots of Mojo growth... It's hard to say when the current scenario involves someone else's dog barking incessantly into my space.

Dog barking is the new stereo sub woofer.

Anyway, I have been motivated into beading and actually making jewellery out of the thousands of beads - beads that I made that have been waiting to become something more. The bead trays are spread across my clutter free table and I'm having fun playing around with combinations, threading choices and colours. I've even put some of them onto my jewellery website - which is about as motivated as I can get - starting is easy, completion is rare...

Purple Pink Swirl Pendant Necklace

I rediscover what I keep forgetting - how much fun it is to spread out a collection of materials and let the muse take me.

Rose Pink Daisy Bead Choker

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Polymer Clay Scraps

Polymer Clay Play

Polymer Clay Play

Polymer Clay Pendant

Is creating "beautiful art" more important than the process of creating?

That's the question today from the Imagination Prompt... and I thought about all the hours I spend doing "something else", all the hours that drift by and nothing new is made. I thought about all the times I imagine making something new and the ways I put it off until tomorrow.

It's been such a long time since I grabbed some raw clay and made something, such a long time since I grabbed some raw clay and just played. So I took the Pressure To Create A Masterpiece off and grabbed some scrap clay and started conditioning it - warming it, kneading it and rolling it and then I chopped it up into a thousand pieces and squished it together again and let the colours blend. I love playing with the clay this way because I never know what I'm going to end up with and I rarely have a disaster.

I'm not really sure what I will do with the pieces I made with the scraps but whilst I was kneading and twisting my synapses started sparking and I felt alive and I remembered what I often forget - that it's the PROCESS I love and the end result is a bonus.

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Is Creating Beautiful Art More Important Than The Process Of Creating? originally appeared on Taexalia on April 11, 2006.

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