This has always been my relationship with art supplies. As much as I love perusing, creative daydreaming, and bringing those daydreams to fruition, I don't think it's a passion that I want to turn into a monetary enterprise. This kind of creativity is highly personal to me. It's a thoughtful process and usually a rather effortful one. I love to create for myself and for people I love, people that I know well enough to use their personalities as creative inspiration. When I was five or ten years old, my mom was hanging my artwork on the refrigerator or at her desk. Never would I have thought that at the age of 28, she would still be hanging my art on her walls and I would still be delivering handmade birthday, Christmas and Mother's Day cards every year.
So, I don't want to make a career out of my art passion in a direct way (i.e. selling art). Maybe what I should be taking from this little reverie is that I could excel at something that channels my creative urges in some other way. Even without formal education in graphic or web design, there have to be job choices infused with creative needs.
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