Take Two.

Ten years ago, I daily walked into my high school Drawing II class with an enormous smile on my face. While I was always an intelligent child, making straight A's straight through school, I found drawing and painting to be satisfying in a way completely separate of scoring yet another high grade on an exam. In Mr. Padgett's art class, I could completely let go. Tests and essays came easily to me, but art provided a challenge - something I had to learn and build upon...something I had to actually work towards. By my senior year I was a top student in Advanced Watercolor and well on my way to Savannah College of Art and Design...with a scholarship.

So....what happened? I got married. ♥ What is it about 18 year olds that make them think they're invincible and know everything? I married. I had a little girl. I most definitely did not go to art school. I went to a local community college and received an Associates in Early Childhood Education, only to discover half-way through my first year as a Pre-K teacher that my sanity is easier maintained when children are either over the age of 10 or in groups of...well...anything other than 20 energetic four-year-old's all at once! I changed jobs and became an Financial Aid advisor at a nearby University.

Landing that job may very well have changed my life for the better. Being on campus every day helped me realize the absurdity of not going to college myself. After an extremely cordial divorce, I moved out on my own and took control of my life. I went from a house-wife, mommy, and office girl to being well into my college degree and owning my own business. I currently have six months to complete an entire portfolio before I can possibly be accepted to the Visual Arts department and finish the rest of my Art Education degree...and I'm absolutely horrified. This blog, dear readers, will follow my adventures in creating, failing, discovering, attempting, and learning through the course of the next interesting months.

Thought for the day: One can do anything he puts his mind to, if he only believes hard enough.