New Adventures, New Paths

This is my first-ever blog post, so I should start by introducing myself, right? My name is Sara, and I am the founder/creative director/person on whom all success and failures depend of the jewelry design company Willow Fish Jewelry.

My goal for this blog is to post articles that are smart, funny, and creative, and give you an inside look at what a newly-hatched artistic endeavor looks like, warts and all! I feel like I'm writing on one of those "Hello! My name is..." sticky-note labels.

I've been thinking about adventures recently- what is an adventure? Jumping out of a plane? Learning to surf? Moving to a new place? Or maybe an adventure is simply stepping out of your everyday routines and mindsets to try something new-to-you.

Here are some of my personal life adventures: studying art in Paris for a semester in college, travelling alone to England for a week of touring Bath, Stonehenge, and Avebury, playing volleyball on a local league during one summer (I am NOT an athletically-inclined woman!) , spending a week at a retreat center to practice the art of creative living (and yoga), and becoming a stepmom to an incredible little girl. None of these are earth-shattering events really, but they have helped shape who I am today, and isn't that what an adventure is supposed to do?

For me, starting Willow Fish Jewelry is an adventure, it has all the elements of a "classic" adventure story- suspense: will she succeed? romance: thank goodness for a supportive and very patient boyfriend! thrills: my first home show! conflict- can she build a business while being a stay-at-home stepmom? 
I invite you to share this adventure with me, maybe we both can learn something from the inevitable stumbles, leaps, wobbles, and wins that are coming my way. As Joseph Campbell so elegantly stated, "Follow your bliss"- all the way home.