Redecorating . . .

I may or may not have mentioned that I am currently enrolled in Martha Beck's Life Coach Training program, which is so amazing!  I have known for several years that I wanted to be a Life Coach, and as I learn the tools and get to practice on "real" people - I know with the kind of clarity that I am rarely blessed with that this is the field I want to be in . . . it is my true calling.  Very.  Cool.

One of the assignments for the program was to read Martha's book, "Steering by Starlight".  I have a terrible history of failed relationships with self-help books, so I was very proud to make it all the way to the end!  (It was really good . . .).  There was one chapter in particular that related to creativity, that I actually read twice.  And I think it was in that chapter where she encouraged her readers to re-decorate their space, shift the energy, move things around, switch it up!

What more perfect time for some redecorating than after a collosal purging?  (I'm not done yet, but have made incredible progress!)

This morning I had a vision right before I woke up that I wanted to display the cover of a journal I made last year at an art retreat in California, on my bathroom wall.  Crazy?  Perhaps.  But at lunch time I got out the scissors and cut up my journal and did exactly what I wanted.  I think it looks awesome!

One of the things I like best about the art is the quote that surrounds her head like a crown:

"I have always been delighted by the prospect of a new day,
a fresh try, one more start . . . with perhaps a bit of MAGIC
waiting somewhere behind the morning."  J.B. Priestly

New clock from Crate & Barrel, Milagro Heart Art brought back from Mexico by my best friend Merrilee, tag from the lovely ladies at Wild Roots Sacred Wings (lettered by Christine Mason Miller) reads, "your Laughter moves around a room like a Hummingbird dipped in Glitter".  How lucky am I to be surrounded by all this beauty when I get ready in the morning?  Truly Blessed! 

In other news, I went back to the Social Security office this morning (after a failed attempt on New Years Eve), and managed to get my name changed in nine minutes.  I actually took along Beautiful Ruins which I bought at the airport over a year ago when I was coming home from North Carolina, and had never gotten past the first few pages.  Turns out it's really good!  (The name change only took nine minutes once the office opened, but I did get there 45 minutes early just to get in line.  Lots of time to read!)

AND . . . my Swing Dancing class is so much fun - I just need to find a partner.  Anyone?  Anyone?

I'll let you know how that pans out for me . . .  :)