Creative Outlet

So I've been out of the salon for 6 months now, which is fine because I LOVE being home with Jake. The only thing is that my work was a huge creative outlet for me. I love doing hair, every head was like a new canvas for me and especially in the last 2 or 3 years in the salon I really really got creative because I was really confident if my abilities to please my clients....

I've also always loved cooking and especially baking! I would always whip something up on my day off and then take them into the salon to share with my friends, I really believe there isn't anything I can't make. When I'm in the kitchen I'm in the "zone".. all of life's problems are solved in my kitchen. Many of you you remember my post when I was at the end of my pregnancy and baked my little tush off to avoid the boredom of waiting for baby to come... Well guess what baby's here and I still bake A LOT. Stay at home mom's shouldn't bake, because they STAY AT HOME!! Instead of taking my delicious cookies in to share with co workers they sit there cooling on my counter top screaming my name! The other issue is that baking is really my only creative outlet now, I don't scrapbook, paint, draw or do anything that doesn't involve lots of calories! Ever since Cameron and I got married I've always been jealous of his hobby's. He loves any and everything outdoors. He could spend hours re-arranging rocks in a stream, or spend the whole day hiking and just enjoying nature. He is always so anxious to share those things with me and I love it, I just wish I had something fun to share with him and others...Honestly my husband is not going to sit at the bar and watch intently as I show him how to bake the best chocolate chip cookies! So now what....

I've always had a passion for music. I played a little guitar in high school but I mostly just sing. But more than singing I love to hear the story of a song and the feelings that went into writing it and how perfectly the words fit to the actual music....

My best subject in school was always English, it was the only class that I was ever good enough at to take in an honors course. I felt like it was (like hair) a really good creative outlet. I always got an A on my journal writing and my final papers. For a long time I've thought about writing a book, not for money or fame but just something to pass the time that I could be really proud of and feel a sense of accomplishment from... But WHOA write a book! that's huge! Could I really do that? Maybe a not so daunting task.... write a song! Ta da, my new project, it might take a while but I'm determind! I've had a lot of experiance's that would make for a great musical story. What a good way to be able to share my talent with others (besides fatning up my friends and family) than to share a good story though song.

That's been an interesting thought process, hope it made sense. I could go on and on!