Being Creative

When I was young I didn't think of myself as creative, it seemed like nothing was there. I had no desire to create. Now being creative is part of me. One thing I notice is I am a fixer. I see an old piece of furniture, and I want to fix it. If it has knobs missing or a big dent in it where someone has hit it against something, I want to take it home and fix it. I have carried many old pieces of furniture home and painted, refinished, fixed and repaired it. If it is out of my realm of ability then I hire someone to fix it. It does have to have good bones though, made well in the first place. It drives my husband crazy. Oh well a little crazy is good. Especially for him. I digress.
I also like to fix clothing. I will find a beautiful garment, or maybe a not so beautiful garment and take it home to fit it to me. Oh I have had some disasters in the past. Items that ended up in the garbage, because I didn't know what I was doing. Over the years, I have learned though. I still don't know everything, but I can take up a T-shirt, and fit a pair of pants to my odd-shaped body and make them look ok. I have plenty of books on doing this too. I just fail to read or cannot find the directions for making the crotch of my pants fit me. What is a person to do? I just keep trying, working of cheap stuff until I can work on the expensive stuff and do it right, that is the best solution for me, hold the cost to a minimum.

This creativity gets applied to other things too, the decor of the house I live in, making quilt and other items with my sewing machine.

People say to me, oh, I can never do something like that. The lesson creativity has taught me can be applied to many areas of my life. To create and be proud of it, you need to learn to accept the faults, accept the imperfections. Then you have other people who look at what you have created and only see the imperfections, stick their nose up in the air and act like you are far less than they. The lesson in that is there will always be people who think they are better than you, forgive them and don't take it personal, there are always going to be people like that regardless of how wonderful your creations are. Love what you do and who you are, and you create an impenetrable shell around you that keeps what those people think from hurting you. The most important thing about being creative is, everyone needs to create so find your creativity.