How We Think

I enjoy looking at how our brains work.

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I used to show this photo to my students and talk about the right and left sides of our brain explaining that we need to use both sides.

Don't you love the right side with all the color and creativity going on?

And then, there is the compartmentalized left side- heads down, doing what needs to be done, and probably on time!

The students always noticed the the people leaping from gray to color, but usually missed the couple walking together across the bridge to the left side.

I spend most of my day on the color side, but Tuula from The Thrifty Rebel and Jana from Transformations From the Heart got me over to the left side after reading about each of them recently starting up Etsy shops.

I have long been "dreaming" of an Etsy shop, but I have not done much of the practical thinking such as what exactly I will sell, how will I set up the shop, how long does it take me to make things . . .

I spent my first month of retirement completing my personal 30 Days of Pinterest Challenge.

I spent July creating and playing with no agenda.

My challenge for August was to use only supplies I had on hand.

And now, a challenge for September - create the inventory to open an Etsy shop.

Oh my, that is in writing . . . in blogland . . . for people to read.

Off to Michael's I went, with no particular plans in mind and I came home with these goodies.

Suzan of Simply Vintageous by Suzan, who wrote a beautiful post on Friday, was instrumental for a portion of the purchase.

 I made a felt heart garland for Suzan and I thought maybe I would make a few more heart garlands and maybe some Halloween garlands out of the felt.

I have seen some fun projects made from wool felt so I threw a small piece into my basket and could not resist the flowers made from colorful little felt balls.

At the end of the felt aisle, there were all these ceramic embellishments on sale for $.99.

I am not sure what to do with them, but they are too cute and cheap so they also went into the basket.

Wire for the embellishments and some organizing for floss are necessities if I am going to actually produce more than one of something.

I bought the yellow divided crate at Big Lots, right next door to Michael's.

The woman behind me in line asked me what I planned to do with it and I told her I had no idea.

It is an atrocious shade of yellow/green, but for now, it is used to organize supplies so the color isn't important.

I also bought this basket at Big Lots and it is now holding all my new felt.

 September has arrived, but we have company so I am getting no creative time.

But come Wednesday morning, September 4, it is time to get "down and dirty", be creative and meet my goal of having an Etsy shop up and running by October 1.

I have a few things made and the wool felt is cut out waiting to be sewn into a little coin purse and heart.

The bloggers at Revisionary Life and Kluless  have already sent encouraging messages.

The question is, am I ready for the challenge?

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I am linking to

The Dedicated House - Make It Pretty Monday.

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