This video is super inspiring. Reminds me so much of my story.
Have a go and do something that you never thought you ever could.
Love it
Lisa is much further along the journey than me but I have just downloaded her book and can’t wait to get into her creative discovery process.
Amanda
Capture Consulting has been working with Vanessa Hoyes on her blog www.howbeautifulis.com helping her team get ready for a 40 day journey called ‘She Lives Bold’.
They are going on a pilgrimage of discovery and hope leading up to their boutique women’s conference.
As a little gift for the girls embarking on the journey I designed this printable to download A blessing for your travel with a fabulous poem Vanessa refers to in her opening post.
Below is also photo scripture montage I put together inspired by the first scripture from day one of the journey.
The word inheritance is often associated with money or financial gain. It is really interesting to take time and reflect on what our inheritance is beyond monetary gain.
Exciting days.
Love
Amanda
I am working on a Christmas guide to kindness.
It’s a 30 day journey to homemade Christmas love.
If you love Christmas as much as I do I am sure you’ll love this new publication.
Coming in a downloadable version to you sometime soon.
Amanda
When I am mentoring people in events and creative direction, often they say ‘I am not sure you can help us, we have a very low budget.’
There is a quick assumption that event management and creative consultancy is all about them spending lots of money.
The assumption is low budget equals little or restricted creativity.
In fact the exact opposite is true.
I believe the less the budget the more creative the client.
When you are placed in a space of tension, you come up with the most amazing solutions.
Lots of money equals less struggle to achieve the end result. Therefore quick decisions happen, especially when we have the budget to throw money at it. I find this often results in no problem solving and stretch, struggle or tension, therefore a less innovative approach.
Enter my husband and I, married 3 years, a one and a half year old and lots of big ideas.
Our home right now, is a 1970’s beach flat. It is tiny. It is adorable. It is restrictive.
We live 20 steps from the ocean, but we have no front yard, no backyard and we are existing on one wage.
We would love to renovate our kitchen tomorrow, but we don’t have the money for it.
Therefore we have talked and talked, we have searched Gumtree and thought more carefully about our renovations because we don’t have thousands to throw at it.
Today as I sat and watched my son roll down the driveway, with the ocean in the background, I thought that one day we will look back at these days and say they were the best.
Those days when we had a date on the couch rather than buying tickets to an expensive show, when we made lamps out of mason jars, when we dreamed about our kitchen and more.
The times when we made flower boxes out of recycled wood, the days we scrimped and saved to get a couch, those days.
Money never equals happiness.
Money never equals creativity.
I like collecting ocean scrub as my flowers those days when Lillies cost too much.
I love making my sons sleep suits in those seasons where spending a hundred dollars on a sleeping bag is out of reach.
I love crocheted goods for my friends presents, they carry so much more intention than a quick thoughtless present.
These are the days.
The days that collecting jars and making my own candles and brewing my own yoghurt, will in the future make me smile with delight.
Dedicated to my friend from my year of wander.
The problem with fashion, as soon as everyone starts to wear it, its most likely to be out of vogue.
Fashion creates waves because it sets new trends and it takes a while to be accepted as the status quo.
As I flick through instagrams and watch blogs evolve, I am often perplexed at how many people copy what other people are doing and claim the right of setting a new trend.
The only way you can stand out from the crowd, is to accept that you are different from it.
If you think you are cool and have made it, I would like to prepose that you are probably not.
Who sets the standard of cool?
Who dictates what is fashionable or not?
Who judges a piece of creativity’s standard?
Often the crowd.
Problem is, as soon as the crowd accepts it, it is quite often sanitised and consumer shaped.
Which means it has lost its edge.
Which means that it is no longer fresh.
Weird is okay.
We grow up through highschool hoping no one will call us weird.
I have found if you want to be a culture creator or influencer, you need to totally come to terms with the fact that you are different.
How can you create something fresh if you are constantly trying to be like everyone else.
I am okay with my weirdness.
How about you?
