Martha

Confession time. I would love to one day become the “Martha Stewart of beers”.

I started watching Martha Stewart Living with my mother (another creative inspiration of mine) when the show first came out. I was around 10 or 11. We would look forward to each new episode. I would grin with delight every time she’d finish a project and say “It’s a good thing.”

While science is my “thing.” I have always loved art and wanted to be an interior decorator. I spent hours with my doll house, mostly arranging furniture. In fact, I still do that in our house. I never want it to be the same for very long. When I can’t sleep I lie in bed and think of ways to rearrange and organize. It actually relaxes me. I even have most of the rooms in our home drawn to scale on graph paper, along with most of our furniture so that I can be sure that things are going to work where I want them, before I commit to a layout. Mac really appreciates this. I also really love to create. Whether it’s this blog, my logo, a new top I stitched, cookies, a wreath, it gives me SERIOUS joy and fulfilment. When I’m stressed out, I bake, clean, or organize.

In undergrad, my roommate, Bee, and I were actually called “the Martha’s.” I took it as a HUGE compliment! Our dorm room was adorably decorated with blue and yellow toile on Bee’s side, and pink and green toile on my own. Be had made the neatest mirror frame that tied both sides of the room together. I kept fresh flowers arranged on our makeshift coffee table that sat in front of our wicker loveseat. We also took our creativity to the next level making fancy dips for campus parties and even creating our own Halloween costumes!

For a long time I have put this creative side of myself aside. And ya know, I think it was really bad for me mentally, physically, even spiritually. It was like I had lost myself for years. I went from seeing something, being inspired and actually DOING, to being unimaginative and lacking the will to do. I’m slowly getting back to it and this blog is serving greatly as my vehicle.

OK, back to Martha. I think she’s amazing. Over and over she creates and reinvents. She has style and grace, but is also funny and joyous. I want to make the conscious effort to be that too!

Even though I know magazines aren’t great for the environment, my mother-in-law keeps me up with a subscription to Martha Stewart Living. Just having the magazines full of beautiful, artfully-curated photos, gives me just a little catalyst to keep going. I’m going to keep drawing inspiration from Martha and the other creative doers out there.

But I wouldn’t mind, if one day, I could share a beer with Martha too.

It would be “A brew thing.” Too cheesy?