Art Of Tracy Verdugo Blog

Hello gorgeous friends! It doesn't take long to find something to be grateful for does it? Tonight I'm going to prove it... with just fifteen minutes until my two different kinds of vegetarian cabbage rolls come out of the oven (sorry no recipes, I googled and then improvised!) I am going to use some of my photo folders (ahem... newly shiny and organised after three days of sorting!)  as prompts to trigger thoughts of gratitude.... here we go!!      grateful for every sunrise I see out of my bedroom window,  every new day I am privileged to experience on this Earth   grateful for the sunlight that makes beautiful patterns on the wall down the side passage of our casa leading to my studio......  for the weeping dwarf mulberry bush that has lived on this property twice as long as us...a constant reminder of the seasons cycles and my barometer that Spring has arrived with its first green leaf buds this week.......

Happy Sunday everyone!  Just back from a lovely walk along the beach with mi amor and ready to continue where I left off on Fridays blog telling you all about my (ahem) diverse and colourful career path that has led me perfectly to this moment..... So if you remember...... we left off with me as Ranger Tracy with a slightly offensive fruit bat named Stinky hanging from my arm..... (see here if you missed it) Just as my career with National Parks amped up, and it seemed I was about to be offered a regular stint on TV, Marco and I made the huge decision to sell our property and take off overseas for a couple of years before settling down to have children... Always the entrepeneur, and with my creative spark beginning to rear its head, I had begun to dabble in creating dried flower arrangements using native Australian flora. A few large orders had seen me sprawled out on our loungeroom floor with baskets, florists foam, dried flowers and seed pods spread from one...

Wow!  I cant believe I've managed to keep up a daily post  for 22 days!   Thank you so much for hanging in there with me through thick and thin xx  Today I was working on my book and thinking about how every experience we go through enriches our story and leads us to exactly where we are meant to be. I am 47 years young and have dabbled in sooooo many jobs and careers on my way to where I am right now, and I'm feeling like its a pretty good place to be.... So in celebration of us creative types who like to dabble in this and that who try out things which sometimes don't work... but always learn from our experiences  and always bounce back with new, innovative ideas I'd like to dedicate this post to you all a little(might be quite long!) recap of my (ahem) career path over the past 30 some years (probably over several posts!) Let me know if you can relate :) 1981~ my mum enrols me (after I beg her incessantly) in a mod...