Will I need all of this?

Waking up this morning, I figured that maybe some people would be sitting there asking themselves, "Do I really need all of this?" to submit artwork to a magazine? Hmmm, maybe, maybe not...

It's really an individual choice, up to each artist personally to decide how to handle their career and just how far it is that they desire to take it. For me, the ideas and the dreams that I have, I just simply know that it is a possible bridge that I may just have to cross sometime. In all honesty, I figured it didn't hurt to prepare for success! {we prepare ourselves for everything else! why should this be any different?}

You see, my dream doesn't simply end with the dream of having my artwork published and to continually be sending in submissions, my dream goes a bit further than that. For many of my readers who do not know, I one day have hopes of owning and operating my own Paper Arts studia. I used most of my personal savings to get me where I am today, creating my studio, purchasing supplies, writing my own classes, creating my own examples. It has been a long and sometimes hard journey. My dream involves and encompasses so many things that in all honesty, I can get so wrapped up in my visions of "what if?" that I could get lost within it for years. Unless of course, I begin to work on clarifying my goals, afterall, to date this has been a one-woman operation.

I'd love to teach scrapbook classes, rubber stamping, and handmade books and bindings all here in my studio. I'd love to sell supplies for all of the above. I want to explore further into the paper arts field establishing a ATC trades, gallery exhibitions, teach and hold open workshops in mixed media, collage, and the paper arts. I want to surround myself with like minded kindred souls and dream of selling my artwork, being featured within some galleries, teaching classes elsewhere, and I one day settling down with owning my own rubberstamp store, complete with a small printing press for book arts. {can you see the $$$ of all those dreams rising? LOL!}

So, you can see how your own dream may be different. You may or may not need all the information that I do and that's fine by me! I'm desiring to inspire others to step out of the box and reach the dream that theirs whatever that dream may be and wherever that dream my lead them. May hope is one day our successes may cross paths...... this path is for me one of many small stepping stones that I am hopeful will one day lead me down the path I desire to be on.