It’s my weekend and I’m sitting at my little kitchen table/desk sipping peppermint tea, listening to jazz classics (Ella, Etta, Billie, Dinah, Sarah V. and Louis never get old!) the smell of my favorite incents perfuming the air, my salt lamp is gently glowing beside me and the sound of my clothes drier is humming away in the background. It’s a cozy evening.
So, tonight I did it. I finally bought the tools and raw materials I will need to start with my little business of making my own potions and lotions (as a friend calls it).
I only got the essentials that I will need to get started and will be batch testing 5 different natural fragrances I started formulating a year ago. They are made of pure essential oils and will become perfumes and diffuser blends. I also got stuff to make lip treatments with a subtle hint of my fragrances in them as well.
So that’s it. I’m starting out super simple and gonna see how it goes. I was really nervous about perusing this idea because of fears like ‘what if it sucks and no one wants it?’ …like when I poured my soul into my various art venture and no one bought them…that sucked and made me wanna give up on creative stuff.
It took me a while but I’m getting back into my creative groove. In a healthy way this time, not going into it with great expectations, but simply to have a creative outlet.
In other news, I’m reading a really good book called Never Broken by the singer and musician Jewel (remember her? she was top of the charts in the 90’s).
Its her memoir of growing up on a homestead in Alaska where she basically raised herself, then started living on her own by the time she was 15, playing shows in pubs, hitchhiking across the country, and slowly stumbling into her creativity. She is very wise and a great writer; in a way I feel like I can relate to her story and learn from her unique insights. I’m really happy this book found me!