Y’all.... see this is why I craft 😢 @iweargunmetal you are so amazing and inspiring. Thank you for being so awesome and giving me space to some pretty cool headpieces!!!! I have so enjoyed watching you bring my creations to life 🙏🏽 . . #thankyou #customerappreciation #allthelove #whyicreate #happytears #xoxo (at Wilmington, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLBDSTFlX2U/?igshid=120oexs3rju6s

#WhyICreate. To be completely transparent and honest, I create for me! I was born a creator, and I'm not just referring to blogging/influencer creating, this is for all forms that I've ever affiliated myself with. Since I was 5, I have been in some form of an art class or practiced art any many mediums. From K5 to 12th grade, I've taken arts, graphics, or music classes. By 8 I knew I wanted to be a fashion designer. I studied fashion design in college and went on to internship and work for SPANX as a contract designer. So, for me, it's second nature. No matter what medium it is, I feel I need to be creating. -- Why did I start blogging? When my contract was up, I struggled with finding another apparel design job in Atlanta. There are limited positions and I was not in a great financial position or really wanted to move to NY. So, I had to completely change industries. I kind of hit a dark point where I felt like I just gave up everything I worked so hard for and loved doing. So I started blogging and creating makeup tutorials. I needed a creative outlet and I just had fun creating content to share. It was therapeutic, it helped me get over a lot of my fears and helped me conquer some of my anxiety. It spoke to my creative soul. -- I know influencers have been getting a bad rep lately and how we're not authentic and more. That's why today, on @WorldCreatorDay, we wanted to share why we create. We are visual storytellers, makeup artists, comedians, musicians, fashionistas, filmmakers, chefs, or fitness motivators. We are full of life and full adventures. We are creators. #WorldCreatorDay #pumpsandpouts #beautybloggers #fashionblogger #lifestyleblogger #atlantablogger (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7MvLYHugR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=i8n68t4cpmxr

#WhyICreate. To be completely transparent and honest, I create for me! I was born a creator, and I'm not just referring to blogging/influencer creating, this is for all forms that I've ever affiliated myself with. Since I was 5, I have been in some form of an art class or practiced art any many mediums. From K5 to 12th grade, I've taken arts, graphics, or music classes. By 8 I knew I wanted to be a fashion designer. I studied fashion design in college and went on to internship and work for SPANX as a contract designer. So, for me, it's second nature. No matter what medium it is, I feel I need to be creating. -- Why did I start blogging? When my contract was up, I struggled with finding another apparel design job in Atlanta. There are limited positions and I was not in a great financial position or really wanted to move to NY. So, I had to completely change industries. I kind of hit a dark point where I felt like I just gave up everything I worked so hard for and loved doing. So I started blogging and creating makeup tutorials. I needed a creative outlet and I just had fun creating content to share. It was therapeutic, it helped me get over a lot of my fears and helped me conquer some of my anxiety. It spoke to my creative soul. -- I know influencers have been getting a bad rep lately and how we're not authentic and more. That's why today, on @WorldCreatorDay, we wanted to share why we create. We are visual storytellers, makeup artists, comedians, musicians, fashionistas, filmmakers, chefs, or fitness motivators. We are full of life and full adventures. We are creators. #WorldCreatorDay #pumpsandpouts #beautybloggers #fashionblogger #lifestyleblogger #atlantablogger (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7MlfSn_ce/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mqzgmollg9cp

It wasn't until the end of my sophomore year of college that I discovered Miraculous, and the only reason I discovered it was because of fanworks on tumblr. All of a sudden I started coming up with ideas and finding inspiration to write again. I didn't care if my ideas would never be canon. It was fun. And now as a seasoned Miraculer, I still find enjoyment out of writing fanfiction, and I have also started finding inspiration for my own ideas again. I've made friends (and enemies) from fandom, and I have people all the time who tell me that my writing made them smile even for a little while, and ya know what, that's good enough for me.

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Time has a funny way of coercion; tricks us into thinking that our past dreams were only passing lunacies, better scattered to the wind.
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Model: Saydi
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#project_soul #thedarkpr0ject #darkbeautymag #whyicreate #model #pnwmodel #pnwphotographer #conceptual #window #abandonedplaces (at Sedro-Woolley, Washington)
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Working on a small project to donate for a silent auction at my local #bowlingforrhinos event in June! This is one of my favorite events every year, all the proceeds go to help rhinos and other endangered wildlife. ❤❤❤❤ . . . . . #art #artistsofinstagram #create #creativity #inspiration #gonnabepainting #hopeidontruinthem #conservation #createwithpurpose #whyicreate #writersofinstagram #wip

Highly intense writing session today. My brain is exhausted, I'm jittery from too much coffee, and it was the best writing day ever. 😊 . #amwriting #writer #writersofig #writersnetwork #authorlife #whyicreate #write #story #statigram #instagoodmyphoto

For myself. For readers. For my family. And because I have this talent for a reason, so I think I owe it to God to write true and purposeful fantasy. . #wipjoy2018 #karhu #amwritingfantasy #wipjoy #stars #constellations #goals #whyicreate #wip #amwriting #amworldbuilding #worldcrafter