small milestones

• Business bank account opened
• 2 Photography jobs completed (and hopefully both will be paid)
• White Spark Photography (business name) registered
• Domain name purchased
• Working With Children Check filed
• Temporary business cards in my wallet (and some even handed out)
• Morning pages (Artist's Way) done every day

I'm doing ok. It's not all happening as fast as I'd like it to, but it's happening.

The Artist's Way exercises in week 2 weren't all completed, but that's ok, I'm doing my best.

I had a busy week with my care work but next week will be FREEEEE and I can do LOTS on my business :D

Things to get done pronto:

• Insurance
• Finalised logo ( I have to find a font I like first!)
• Portfolio party photos (I'm booked in for a party on Saturday :))
• Survey sent out 
• ABN details updated

Oh and there's a lot more... who would've thought there'd be so much to do and so much I need to learn?! But that's ok too, it's just that I'm not a fan of feeling ignorant.

One thing at a time, and I'm going to be asking for some help!

The Artist's Way

I've started reading Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self. This was recommended to me a few months ago and I finally found a copy in the library last week. I've started doing the Morning Pages (3 pages of "stream of consciousness") and I had my first Artist Date (2 hours doing something just for your inner artist) yesterday. Following my first impulse of reading children's books at the library I found myself at the State Library, only to discover there's no children's section! So I looked at the portraiture display and then went and picked out several painting books to flick through. I found a really interesting autobiography by a Melbourne artist who's name I can't even remember now, but she did make an impression with her full-frontal honesty and prolific work. I look forward to next weeks date with my inner artist... not sure what it'll be this time, maybe I'll just go down the road to the Hawthorn library and do the children's books there (I love the illustration).

The idea of not only reading the book, but doing the course within it's pages, is to allow my creativity to grow and flourish. I have felt recently that there's really a block of some kind holding  me back. I've talked a little about it in this blog, it all comes down to fear really, but I'm hoping doing some positive work and exploring a little of my subconcious beliefts might bring to the surface if there's something in particular stopping me from  really moving forward.

I'll keep you posted on my 'recovery'.

white spark?

Spark of Life. Spark of imagination. Spark of creativity. That's what White Spark will stand for. IF it comes through as registrable.

I made my wall list. It helped me feel like I had things planned out... but most of the 'Now' things I can't get done until I get my business name sorted. I like that when I took this photo the 'Now' list is in shadow. Maybe that means I should start working on 'Next' things. Maybe I'm too busy looking for signs. Maybe I'm starting to lose my mind.

Sigh.

Thankgod for beautiful heartfelt blogs from wonderful people (in this case Sheye)  that make me realise how easy I've got it.