Free to be me.

Hola!
I'm so excited to tell you all about my new bloggie. But first, I need to assess the sudden switch---

 "Light In My Heart" has been my personal blog for quite some time where I've spilled most of my heart & guts out in the primary portions. It was a very rough season of my life during those earlier chapters and I've even wondered if I should just get rid of those posts altogether. However, there are no fruits in life without much tilling, cultivating, uprooting & the like. I let them stay so I can look back at it from time to time & just be in awe of how GREAT my God is. God had to rid me of myself of which I refused to at the time. Fast forward years later, and I am amazed at the work Christ has done in me. At times I am discouraged with backwards motion, but I know that I am always victorious with God, so this keeps me going. Light in my heart slowly transformed into "but we get back up again." The entries became less personal & more about things that inspired me to create, love & live. Design & art blogs gave me an insatiable appetite to keep up with the blogging game. I was always trying to do the "next best thing," or find ways to get my etsy more marketable, or, make entries interesting enough to get more readers. Sure, those things aren't bad, ...but personally, I felt that I had lost myself. I'm typing this out & I feel so lame because I'm making blogging SO dramatic when it really isn't... haha. But, it was time for a BRAND new blog, with no inhibitions to be me.
Truth is, i love Jesus and I WANT to talk about my faith without feeling judged or weird. Truth is: I WANT to be a blessing to people & encourage them. Truth is: I LOVE creating art & making people smile with the things I make/write/bake/sing...

without wondering if anyone's gonna read it, or if i'll gain a new follower that will maybe look at my etsy & buy something, or .. "dude.. am I boring? interesting enough?..is what i'm writing captivating?"

WHO. CARES. :) right?

So welcome to Flowered Crown. Yes, I will still write entries about creating, loving.. and living.. but without a fear of being who God has made me to be: Me. Stephanie :) If you'd like to follow, thank you! If not, thank you, even just for reading & letting me have a few minutes of your time. Truly, time is the best gift you can give anyone--because you can never take it back.

I hope that you guys will be inspired, blessed, or encouraged somehow!
Lots of love,
Steph