wHats YouR cOmFort zONe?

We've all got comfort zones in all areas of our lives. They show up in our careers and businesses, our family lives, relationships, and even hobbies.
For me, trying new recipes can be a wobbly step out of my comfort zone of boring and repetitive recipes.
In a work setting, taking up more responsibilities most often results in journeys into an uncomfortable zone. The good thing though is that we can be pleasantly surprised when we have ventured into this new zone. You know another thing? The new zone almost always becomes a comfort zone after a while! Isn't life ONE BIG CYCLE?

If you're adventurous, then you might even search out these disconcerting new stuff! Sometimes I'm adventurous and in my culinary life this usually results in frequent visits to video jug to learn and try out new recipes.
In my designing life, new can be exciting and new can also be daunting.
Recently when I bought my supplies, I ordered some acrylic beads for making bags. When my supplies where delivered, I found out that most of the beads were BIG! For someone who had mostly used 6mm beads, 12mm beads were daunting. The thing with trying to make bags with bigger beads is that it's a bit difficult to make some intricate and complex designs with big beads because they can be quite bulky and heavy, and you don't your clutch bag to be too heavy.

I did the natural thing that we do when confronted with something out of our comfort zones- procrastinate.
When I finally persuaded myself to work with the big beads, I was pleasantly surprised by one of their major attributes. Making bags with big beads is way faster than using smaller beads. If it will take me 2 days to finish a 6" wide x 4" deep clutch with 6mm beads, it'll take about 4 hours to finish the same size of clutch with the big beads.

In future, not only will I be working with big beads, but I'll be more open to incorporating new (and daunting) materials to my designs!

I hope you'll be more open to trying new and scary stuff at your workplace as well. Who knows, you might actually be enlarging your comfort zone. :)

Here are some of the clutches with the big beads.

Peaced beaded clutch
All that Glitters beaded clutch




And Adora beaded clutch