"The desire to create 
is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul."
 DIETER F. UCHTDORF

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 DIETER F. UCHTDORF

"The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before.

Everyone can create. You don’t need money, position, or influence in order to create something of substance or beauty.

Creation brings deep satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take unorganized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.... You might say, “I’m not the creative type.... If that is how you feel, think again, and remember that you are spirit daughters of the most creative Being in the universe....

But to what end were we created? We were created with the express purpose and potential of experiencing a fulness of joy.... One of the ways we find this is by creating things."

"You may think you don’t have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. 5 The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before—colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.

What you create doesn’t have to be perfect.... Don’t let fear of failure discourage you. Don’t let the voice of critics paralyze you—whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside."

"What is worse than having no sight
 is being able to see but having no vision."
Helen Keller

A Bucket List? Nawwww... 
But a Studio Wish List? Yes!!! Things I Want to Try Before I Die

About Bucket Lists. I don't have one. I don't want one. Actually, more accurately, I don't have a need for one. I thought I needed one, you know, because everyone else was writing up one. And I do think they are very cool, seeing what people want to do that they aren't or is out of the ordinary. That's why I thought I needed one, but, one wouldn't come to me. And some of the things that I've done (being on HGTV, Rate My Space or speaking to an International Delegation @ the World Family Policy Center about one of my painting, Guardians of the Family)  wouldn't have ended up on the list. I wouldn't, or couldn't, have even thought of them. And they have been very exciting. To me, taking what comes and being surprised is better than a bucket list.

But, don't think I don't have needs. As time has gone on, I realize my bucket list (of things to do before I die) showed up in a different form. A list of things I want to try before I die- my Studio Wish List. Things I'd eventually like to have in the Studio. 

I would give up food for some of these things. I'll share - 

STUDIO WISH LIST (an artist's answer to the bucket list)

• leaded glass & supplies • sculpture supplies & a kick apple instructor (Gary Price?) • a photography light box thing • a spray booth • a button (as in pins) making machine and press • gigantor canvases • an easel that works for someone as short as I am • digital art projector (very new, very cool) • block printing press • a stainless steel tape dispenser (I'm weird that way) • having someone show me how to mix oil paints from scratch, like old school • paint on linen • an embroidery sewing machine • a super snazzy digital camera • a BIG set of colored pencils • a laser printer (do they even make laser printers for small studios? This is a wish list, for crying out loud, who cares about the details) • aluminum portfolio case (they just whisper cool) •  binding machine for books • laminating machine (but the copy store might go out of business if I got one) • vinyl cutter that works with a MAC • silk screen stuff •

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