Compare yourself to a hand made ceramic bowl.

ohhh what to write. who will read this anyway... maybe just me and a sister or two every so often!! i have been wanting to write a blog for AGES. mostly because i often think about life and the lessons i learn from it and it would be fun to share it - with me myself and i (and anyone else who comes along), for future reference. so here goes.

first of all i would like to tell you.. i don't use capitals. hoping you can get past that aspect of my writing.

i quite like things casual and imperfect. its one of the reasons i LOVE making hand made ceramic bowls. their imperfections are what give them character. its like permission for myself to be 'imperfect'. permission not to be the same (as my sisters, particularly my older sister who really is naturally perfectly ordered and tidy and so easily puts on events and food and you name it.... she's great at it. STYLING is her thing. she will make you feel like you have just walked into your favourite space. only its yours space. the one that was always there, but now it feels and looks beautiful... thats her. oh and did i mention her linen cupboard.. it actually looks like a display shelf in a bath shop.. only much nicer....because its real... ill show you a picture another day!)

anyway... back to permission to being imperfect.

imperfect is definitely the wrong word....but thats how it feels when we compare ourselves to the 'perfect woman', because its the perfect woman that we all tend to weigh ourselves up against.

how would we feel if we started to compare ourselves to a hand made ceramic bowl? I'm thinking we would feel pretty darn good about ourselves! bumps, uneven edges, maybe a ding or two not smoothed over. definitely not perfectly round or perfectly smooth. if that was the pin up we were striving for, I'm thinking most of us would start to see ourselves as, 'perfect'!

compare yourself to a (sophie taggart) hand made ceramic bowl. it leads you to a place of actually feeling content with who you are. try it. odd, but it actually feels good!!