What Friends Are For

After helping my friend, Oza, upgrade her own site last night our discussion turned to my site – namely my mixed media jewelry shop. I truly value Oza’s opinion, suggestions and thoughts. What we discussed really opened my eyes to what I was trying to do, yet again. She made me see that I need to “stop fiddling around” with my site design and start putting more focus into being creative and letting my true self shine through with my jewelry.

She told me she was sad to see the changes I made, though she did like them she much preferred an earlier version of my shop. Oza also mentioned her thoughts on my changing the name of my shop from kcrystina to simply knots. Even though she loved the name and all, she really thought I needed to stick to using my name, kcrystina, as I have been doing from the start. It took talking to her to realize that I had already been building a brand for myself with using my name and to change it now would only hurt the business I’m trying to build.

Even though sometimes it was hard to hear what she said, everything made sense and rang true. She helped open my eyes to see that I was stuck in “business-like mode” of the Virgo within me rather than letting my creative soul shine through. I came to realize that the reason behind my being stuck on trying to reinvent my shop design is because a part of me is holding back my creative soul, making it vary hard for it to stay in the forefront where it should be.

I know that the need for change stems from my childhood where my family was constantly moving at least once or twice a year. What I need to do is throw that need for change to the wind so that I can begin to focus more on what’s most important to me – expressing my true self, my creative soul, through my jewelry designs. Now that I have found the focus for my jewelry, I need to concentrate on that & continue to build my brand. Rather than trying to reinvent myself online every few months.

With her help I am working on the final design of my shop that will let my creative soul shine through with colors. Once it is completed she will help to keep me in check so I don’t end up trying to change it yet again.

I think having Oza beside me cheering me on, keeping me focused and holding me accountable to my creative soul is and will be extremely good for me. It is definitely something I need… someone to remind me what I want to accomplish and where I want to end up.

I think we would be totally lost without our true friends. I know I would definitely be lost without Oza. I would still be fluttering around trying to find my way, when in reality I’ve already come upon it and just need to take that little voice inside me to heart & do as “she” says.