Creative DNA Questionnaire

Here's a little bit about me and my creative life:

1. What is the first creative moment you remember? When I had to have severe surgery at age 8, I thought my life was over as an olympic swimmer in-training. I picked up a piece of paper and a pencil, then ran wherever my mind took me on that paper. I ended up drawing over 200 outfits in three days on whatever pieces of paper anyone would give me.
2. Was anyone there to witness or appreciate it? My mom was there. She told me to go wherever I wanted to go with my life, as long as it was my passion.
3. What is the best idea you've ever had? To create a high fashion collection from just primary colors.
4. What made it great in your mind? It's very risky and unseen anywhere, especially in fashion.
5. What is the dumbest idea? To go to someone else to make my costume for a cosplay one year.
6. What made it stupid? We just saw things completely different when it came to my designs. I wasn't happy in the end and neither was she.
7. Can you connect the dots that led you to this idea? Yes, I had the money, the design, but not the time to make it.
8. What is your creative ambition? I want to be a high fashion / costume designer and cosplayer on the side.
9. What are the obstacles to this ambition? One, meeting the right people at the right time. Two, the college and internships that get you to number one. Three, I'm getting married. I just hope I can juggle a family, a job, and a passion.
10. What are the vital steps to achieving this ambition? First, to train under a master seamstress. Then, start my online design business and make it all legal. Next, roll with the punches, talk to people, meet that right person at the right time. Fourth, work hard to make it to the top. Lastly, work even harder to stay at the top.
11. How do you begin your day? I lay in bed on Pinterest for a few minutes, before getting ready for the day.
12. What are your habits? What patterns do you repeat? Habits, Ha! That's funny! I like to call them quirks. I leave home for school/work and pickup a Large Sweet Tea from McDonalds or a Large French Vanilla Frozen Coffee from DD then listen to my screamo music all the way to my destination.
13. Describe your first successful creative act. Hmmm....I wrote a song back in my sophomore year in high school, called Scarred Heart. It actually got recorded, but no one ever bought it. But it was still successful to me because I took the chance on it. Risk was the real success to me.
14. Describe your second successful creative act. My final project for Beginning Design class. We had been working on it for over a month, and she kept changing things that we had to have or not have. She was so indecisive! Ha! It, somehow, came out really amazing in the end.
15. Compare them. These are different in many ways. One is physical art while the other is a song. But both came straight from the heart.
16. What are your attitudes toward: money, power, praise, rivals, work, play? Money is Power. Praise creates Rivals. Work almost always leads to Play.
17. Which artists do you admire most? Yaya Han, Pentatonix, Louie Palma, Vera Wang, and Three Days Grace.
18. Why are they your role models? Yaya Han is a beautiful cosplayer who has somehow found a way to make money from her passion. Pentatonix can make any sounds with their voices, I am convinced of this. Louie Palma is still making music, physical art, and songs even after all that he's been through. I wanna be that strong. Vera Wang is what I wanna be: famous, rich, but still down-to-earth. Three Days Grace makes music like no one's listening.
19. What do you & your role models have in common? We all have a passion for what we do (or in my case, want to do).
20. Does anyone in your life regularly inspire you? Betty Franklin is not an artist in the conventional sense. When it comes to balancing life, she truly is my greatest inspiration. She is the strongest woman I know and she's so wise of just about everything.
21. Who is you r muse? MY muse? I don't know. Life, it's risks, family, faith, etc.
22. Define muse. Muse is someone/something that inspires you to continue and further your passion without knowing it.
23. When confronted with superior intelligence or talent, how do you respond? I usually am awestruck and just want to be taught by whoever it is.
24. When faced with stupidity, hostility, intransigence, laziness, or indifference in others, how do you respond? Stupidity? I feel pity. Cuz “there ain't no cure for stupid.” I don't respond to hostility well. I tend to zone out with that. Laziness is just stupid and I already gave my opinion on that. Indifference is inhumane. People must connect to survive.
25. When faced with impending success or the threat of failure, how do you respond? Success makes me fear that a threat of failure will come, but when a threat of failure comes, I pick up my skirt and run through the storm. Nothing can stop me once I put my head to something.
26. When at work, do you love the process or the result? I hate my jon, so no on both accounts. Now when it's creative work, I love the process AND the result. But the process is my favorite part, because what good is the result if you didn't enjoy it along the way?
27. At what moments do you feel your reach exceeds your grasp? I'm not familiar with this concept. Things are always within grasp. You just have to find the right tools and learn how to use them.
28. What is your ideal creative activity? Sewing, designing. For my living. I need my passion or I will just wither away to nothingness.
29. What is your greatest fear? My God is with me. “Whom shall I fear?” (Psalm 27:1). “For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” (2 Timothy 1:7)
30. Who is the likelihood of either of the answers to the previous questions happening? I have no doubt I am going to be famous and rich for my designs. I can feel it. I am too determined to let it not happen. I will work harder all the time to get to where I want to be.
31. Which of your answers would you most like to change? I do not regret anything in my life. But I guess the only thing I would love to change is my job, just because it is miserable.
32. What is your idea of mastery? I think of it as having the most information or skill than the majority of people on a subject, service, or trade. But there is always room to master more on anything.
33. What is your greatest dream? To be a good wife (and MAYBE mother, although most likely not) and run a successful business that I love and that brings glory to God.​