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Yarn Art and Textiles Are My Passion!

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Symbol of Love! Philly Nights! Sunflower

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Discipline is defined as “the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience.” The key words that stood out to me are training and punishment.One of the most important skills in life for me is discipline, in fact inner discipline or self -discipline. As an entrepreneur I realized that this single skill could determine just how far I go in life. As I developed my inner discipline I began to train myself to manage myself personally, prioritize, identified what habits that made me fail with my inner discipline, mediated, and created good habits. As I began to build my self –discipline, I noticed that my effort and focus could sometimes be draining. I needed to do more, I needed to change my mindset and perception of inner discipline. I had to stop punishing myself when I did not accomplish my goals. I had to start forgiving myself, create a back-up plan, and at times I had to keep it simple. Once my mindset caught up to my willpower I began to surpass my inner limits and obstacles and could see the rewards from my self-discipline!

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Reinvent It is Relevant!

Reinvention keeps you on course! Reinventing keeps us relevant! How easy is it to lose course of our goals? How often does life just past you by? We are in a constant state of reinvention but do we know that we are (how conscious are you of the process)? Lets talk about the reinvention process! The reinvention process starts with self examination. We must examine who we are, what are our weaknesses as well as our strengths! Now what are some of our goals? Where do we want to be? What do we want to obtain? What is the identity we want to have? Where are we now and why? How, and what is the process for us to get where we want to be? We have to constantly examine this process to get to where we want to go and what we want in life! This can apply to your personal life and can apply to our brand!

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Manage Your Creativity

Does your creativity need managing? Of course it does our creativity need to be fed by inspiration! Our creativity needs encouragement and these are a few things that I do to increase productivity! Freedom- I stay open and do not repress my creativity! Netowrk with like minded people Share Ideas! Experiment Calaborate with others My Space I make colourful I am strategic I plan but do not make any predictions I stay organized I schedule myself

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Possibilities Are Endless

The possibilities in life are endless! Open your mind and your heart to no limit! We must always look at the brighter side of things! Remain conscious and never let a circumstance restrict you from seeing a positive side. Possibilities are endless and alot of times we hold ourselves up from seeing them..... Retrain, Rethink, Renew, Revive, and remeber you can create several possibile alternatives!

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The "Not So Ugly Hat" tried something new!

Recreated a similar hat!

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Thank you Mural Arts of Philadelphia "Southeast by Southeast" for having me!

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#plarn

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Thank you Laura from "Laura's Nots from The Handbasket"

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Full Blanket Design ...

Stitch-Lilly of the valley

Baby Boy Blanket

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This is the scene before I Complete set up at The Random Tea Room & Curiosity Shop. This is one of my most unique places in Philly. I love their tea selection & comfortable space. They have seating in the shop as well as the back.

This is up close the freeform base guitar & tea cup cozy set! Thank you Random Tea Room for having me.

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Tea Menu / Random Tea Room & Curiosity Shop 713 N 4th St. Philadelphia Pa. 19123 See you tomorrow between 12pm & 3pm

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Tea time with me The Random Tea Room & Curiosity Shop #plarn #artdemo #whatisyarnbombing #recycleandrepurpose Tomorrow 12pm to 3pm

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The last three centerpieces are completed & I love each one!

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Our own perception forms our own reality!

To perceive is just the ability to know or identify by the means of our senses. It is easy, we feel what we feel, even though the reality is something differnt. We often confuse perception with reality. We often mistake how we understand things for the truth. Our thoughts and feelings seem real to us, so we conclude that they must be true. We must always seperate our perception from the truth! 1. Make sure you examine the issue 2. Pay attention to thoughts and feelings learn to seperate. 3. Take in consideration what caused the problem and why. 4. Redine the problem and brainstorm the solution not your feelings.

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I remember this being a dispute in the fiber craft community: With yarnbombig the way you do, do you take measures to make sure the yarns used either don't end up decaying from the exposure to the elements, or do you use yarn that will eventually decay with no harm caused to the area around it? I remember one person calling it bourgeois and wasteful to bomb around objects as decoration rather than simply creating a functional item (like a scarf/hat) and setting it to be found and used. Opinions?

I use scrap yarn that has been left over from a project. Some dont like yarnbombing…….i do remove the yarn once it gets ratty.

ItsTemporary Art and not the norm that people use yarn for. Yarnbombing is a very touchy subject, most people will not accept it as Art. I understand why alot of people question it, we have to keep in mind crocheting & knitting was only used to make functioning items. At one time people couldn’t afford certain items so they made scarfs, hats, baby clothes etc. I respect their opinion…. and continue to yarnbomb

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Yarunity! Megan walked up, I had my head down. Megan asked "do you have another tapestry needle" and sat down. I looked up I said "I sure do" handed her the needle. Threw my phone to Tracey and Megan & I sewed together! This was the light light of my evening.....Thank You Megan