I dont even know where to start really…I suppose my family and friends is a good place. I feel proud and loved of and by my family and friends. I am a lucky person and have much to be thankful for. I used to feel like I was on a path to no where…now I know it was all leading here and later to there.
Aside from the people in my life I have been blessed with the gift of creativity…first and foremost I am a writer, it is my passion though I have sadly put it on the backburner for far too long. A little hobby of mine that I used to meditate and express myself has turned into something quite different and has taken all of my artistic energy of late.
I have been drawing as long as i can remember and coloring in strange and cool patterns as long…I finally caught on and learned that I could actually draw well by the time I was in junior high. Previous to that I traced everything and doodled here and there…the tracing and doodling fnally manifested into my being able to draw what i could see…as long as it isnt 3d lol…i can draw cartoons and characters and pictures…but i can not yet do portraits and realistic art.
I always wanted to try painting but was always too intimidated…finally one day a few years ago i went and bought some large cardboard sheets for drawing and a few paints and gave it a whirl. I wasnt sure how i felt about it but i was definitley having fun trying something new and working with color, as my drawing was always done in pencil.
I worked in a high traffic insurance office by myself at that time and had a lot of wall space so i began bringing the paintings to work with me and hanging them up…people started commented on them and soon there were people stopping in just to see if i had hung anything new! and can you believe that is where i sold my first painting!
Selling that piece (which was my own favorite) gave me the confidence i needed in myself to continue painting and to turn it into more than a hobby. I am now showing my art in city advertised shows and have them hanging in a local shop where I have sold nearly a dozen.
In this time a lot of other things in my life have happened…a lot of dreams came true..infact nearly every dream i wanted in life has come true and sometimes I have to wonder if its all real…if I am really not in a coma somewhere dreaming all of this 
I stopped writing when I started getting noticed for my art but alas it has to end. My stories are calling to me and i cant do both at the same time, i need to devote all of myself to one art form a a time and the characters that were gifted to me in a dream long ago are begging me to come back to them.
I know I was given the gift of art, creativity and vivid dreams and memory for a reason…and i think it is to write the books that will make people happy. I am once again inspired by author Stephanie Meyers of “Twilight” i wrote a blog about it already but I find that we have so much in common, her and I. Her story was from a dream and she loved it so she had to write it down to se what would happen next,,,,,Those were my words exactley when I had my own dream…well “dreams” I have a few differnet books started but left unfinished.
Falling in love with her book and hearing her own story made me feel as if I had been given this gift and spit on it, how unworthy I am to have been given this passion and skill and not use it? When I saw her talking about the book and making of the movie it made me fel guilty to not have finished my won characters who are always in the back of my mind waitng for me ..locked up in my brain when the yern to live on the page.
So, after my art show this april 26th I will be hanging up the paint brush and picking back up my pen. Unless ofcourse someone shows up to my show and wishes to make me famous overnight lol 
I will leave the art for later and go back to my beloved characters hoping to bring them to life for al to read in the near future.
So stop by Goddess Blessed sunday april 26th 4pm-7pm for my first and last art show until my first book in completed!
sheila1977
