When PIGS Fly

This is one of the most "from the Heart" posts I've ever written,

but I have let something eat at me for years and it's time to let it out.

Several years ago...

someone I trusted told me that I lived in a fairy tale world.

They told me that I would never amount to anything

unless I learned to get out of the dream world inside my head

and get serious.

I hadn't realized how much I let what they said to me take root in my spirit..

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I have tried to be serious..

Tried to like serious things...

Wear serious colors....

AND it's just not ME......

So what if the world ever takes me serious

or thinks I amount to (their version of) anything.

After a great deal of soul searching ...

I have decided to embrace all that I am and just be proud of it.

God gives each of us a special set of gifts.

And when people say you are one in a million.......

THEY'RE WRONG!!!
You are the ONE and ONLY..

There is not another single person in this entire world like you for a reason.

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I have spent many years fighting against my gifts.

I love to smile, and make other people smile.

I love to tell silly stories, and giggle so hard I nearly wet my pants.

I like color.... Wild and crazy colors..

I like whimsy...

I like things that make me feel inspired and want to create.

I like pigs with big round bodies...

And most of all I like POLKA dots!!

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So... Last night I began painting,

and I have torn my upstairs studio apart.

I have kept it serious

because I wanted people to take my work seriously.

I work very hard at the things I do,

and I let those words "get out of your fairy tale"

keep me from being the ME that I was meant to be..

Maybe I was put here

to bring a little fairy tale to us all.

To fill someones day with something silly instead of something serious.

To bring a giggle, to cause a smile, to say some inspiring words,

to push someone to never stop dreaming,

or to create happy things with polka dots....

And best of all

maybe to show someone that God makes us all

with a unique purpose..

How sad it would be if we were all the same!

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So.. with that said -

I begin my studio transformation...

I am going to take the words of JOYCE MEYER to heart.

Surround your self with only those things that.....

Are Beautiful

Are Useful

or Bring you JOY.

(and my amendment to that is ...

or ones that have the potential for any of those things..)

Stay tuned for the finished drops of my Fairy Tale.

May we all realize that sometimes Pigs can fly if they have the right kind of wings..