Ideas

Okay, first things first. I have fallen in LOVE with The Avett Brothers radio on pandora.  It is phenomenal. Listen to it, you may hate it but you may love it, cause it is definitely lovable.  The Avett Brothers have most definitely found their way onto my Christmas wish list!

So the past weekend I have been working nonstop on one particular gingerbread house, in fact I spent somewhere around 20 hours on it.  Now if that seems slightly obsessive to you, you're probably not that far off base.  But, the whole reason that I spent that much time is simply because I had an idea. 

Just an idea, a thought and a picture in my mind.  I imagined a perfect little gingerbread doll house, with a slanted roof and perfect little windows in the front, and perfect little rooms with all the bells and whistles in the back.  I get these ideas all the time, there are so many things I wish I had the time and the resources to do, and those ideas make me wish I could get back all that time I've wasted doing nothing. 

I have these ideas, but alot of the time those ideas are only ever ideas.  But sometimes, sometimes I get to take those ideas out of my head and make them real.  I wish I could tell you how incredibly exciting that is, how exciting it is when you see something in your head become real right beneath your hands. 

That excitement is why I can spend 20 hours on a gingerbread house that is just gonna be thrown away.  That excitement is why I can sit and work every second that isn't dedicated to other responsibilities.  That excitement is why I can LOVE every moment of it.  I personally don't look at it as obsession, though my logical side of me says it is, I simply did it because every second I spent working on it I loved and every second made me love that I am able to create things. Creating things brings so much joy to my day, and I am so thankful that I have the abilities to have that joy. 

When ideas become reality it is a beautiful thing.