Hello!

Hello all, I am in the process of shutting down my old website (Beyond the Lens Studio) and opening up a new one (Lil Miss Beyond). My old website had my original blog on it. With my new website I wanted to use a blogging site, and that is how I came to open this blog. I didn't want to loose the entries that I had made in the past, so during the next couple of weeks I will be copying them here. This one was my introduction post in my original blog, and is from June 29, 2007...

Lost My Mojo

For the past couple years I had somehow lost my creative mojo, I looked everywhere for it (under the bed, in the dryer, etc...) - it was just nowhere to be found.=-) The funny thing was, I lost it shortly after I sold a few of my photographs. Maybe my mojo went home with one of those photos? I had always been very creative, and then one morning I woke up and it wasn't there. I am thinking that I just lost my nerve, and started to think that I didn't have the talent to sell my work; because of this my mojo hit the road.

After making a life change my mojo found its way home. I had been looking for an education job for a long time, and after doing some soul searching decided that maybe that is not what I wanted to do anymore. Top that off with being asked back to do the artwork for the local libraries' reading program (I'll talk more about that next time) I felt that I needed to revisit my art background and take it a little further.

So I have been doing research on creating and selling my artwork without loosing my sanity. A blog and a website was suggested as a way to get yourself into the publics eye. I have never been much of a journal writer, but I thought that adding a blog to my site would be a great way to record my journey.

I think that is all for now.

Until next time,
~Amanda