Natalie

I like the idea of a simple life with the necessities. I went through my closets last week and gave away 1/4 of my clothes. I just had crap I was keeping just in case I would need a certain color or style… I pictured women who were actually in need of clothes and it made putting things in a box much easier. Same with shoes. I put the books I didn’t want up for sale on half.com.

I would like to be able to move with ease. Get up and go. Without carrying crap I may need someday across the country. I’m trying to scan documents and receive my bills and statements online to get rid of the mountain of paper clutter that never ends.

Any more practical ideas? :)

I feel like my business degree in college and my entrance into grownup-landia has stiffled any time or outlet of artistic expression.

I bought these minicanvases from Blick this weekend. I need to find some paints. I’d love to take a beginning drawing class… but when do I have time for that?

I’d love to write stories again. But I barely have time to keep myself sane through sporatic journal entries.

And photography… some day I’d love to buy a real nice camera, have a darkroom in a small room under a staircase, and experiment and learn to my heart’s content. Until then, I try to capture everything with my little digital point-and-shoot. I’d like to do more artistic things with that in the meantime.

Poetry.. I’d like to read some classics. Jot out my own.

Buy a sketchbook. This spring.

and I was inspired.

Two weeks ago I went through 1/3 of my clothes and gave them away. This past weekend in our girls weekend in Chicago, my friends and I had a clothing exchange, which was fabulous and spent some quality time thrifting in second hand shops.

I’m just tired of the consumeristic focus of American life. This seems like a great goal. I don’t need anymore crap!! I want to be more creative with what I have!! I want to live in community and share everything I have with others.