Just Make Stuff!

Recently, I’ve had a hankering to make more florals with rusty bed coils. Perhaps it’s because the first one has been repinned on Pinterest time and time again. I named this floral delight “Sweet Betty” after my sister-in-law’s mom, Betty, and made it to cheer her up after the loss of her lifetime partner and precious husband.

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Sweet Betty

Sweet Betty is making the Internet rounds and cheering people up right, left and center. I find this far from ironic, but kind of like what my cousin, Kim, wrote to me in a recent email:

“The Lord’s work,” as a former boss used to say quoting his grandmother.

I think Sweet Betty is a personal message to me about taking the time to just make stuff. Sometimes I get all bound up with thoughts like, I gotta sell this or it’s not worth my time. But you don’t have to make money or make things perfectly to give away a creative gift to someone.

If you have a stirring in your heart to make something, you should go ahead and try.

At this point, my next envisioned creation is only a tiny tea cup and a rusty spring (I bought the tea cup at an antique street fair in Cayucos, during last weekend’s cousins’ beach retreat.)

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Yet I know something beautiful is going to result from my willingness to try something new.

Besides, if I make a mistake, there are three more beds full of rusty bed coils in abandon fields that are waiting for my wire cutters to set them free. (Even though my husband pleads with me, “Please don’t tell people that we drag home old rusty bed coils from dusty fields.”)

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