Stage 1 Definition Breaking down my list

Once I have done a bit of brainstorming about my passions and made a list, I want to break each one of my passions down and find out if I can come up with a few ideas for each subject to start with. I might start by making a map, creating a word list, jotting thoughts down or sketching out images that come to mind (at this point a lot of it doesn't really make any sense to the outsider looking in, it is a bit abstract at this point). 

My passions:

(my added thoughts and brainstorming)

The arts; drawing sketching, painting, sewing, designing, photography, I ALWAYS have my camera with me. Art is my one true passion in my life.

- imaginations at play

- An illustrated story bringing one of my imaginative thoughts to life,  like when I was very young I thought a tornado was an enormous tomato with large green arms and legs, tossing houses and cows about. How my youth and imagination is key to my design work, keeping a "playful" light on design.

- dare to dream

- a book about my sewing and tote bags

- stitched!

- In Stitches

Music - I cannot image my world without it. I have been influenced by music since birth really. 

- bring a song to visual life using typography

- what music means to me

- If I were a song what would I look like and how would I be sold...my visual..?

Traveling - I love going to new places, meeting new people and learning about new cultures.

Problem solving - I truly enjoy finding solutions to problems, be it in my design work or my every day life. 

Reading - I love a good science fiction or fantasy adventure and just let my imagination go.

Communicating - I enjoy connecting with people

- Connections
- Every day conversation
- Random encounters with people, strangers on the street, at the grocery store, in the park, on the train or bus. I just read this book by Douglas Coupland, 'Life after God'. At one point the character is stuck in the desert with no food or water, has no idea where he is and it is now dark. An old man, just passing by, ends up helping him to find his way and gives him food. 
- Random acts of kindness
- Conversations with people, small an abrupt, by strangers, comments we hear people make on the street...

- 'I'm living what are you doing' a book about life, the every day little bits that we quickly forget or they just get brushed aside waiting on the BIG bits.

- Random comments I hear in my every day life- a book of randomness
- People and comments
- Negative comments/ positive comments
- Comments that other people have told us about ourselves, negative and positive. How long would it take a person to recall a negative comment verses a positive one?

Learning – I learn new things every day. I am passionate about getting out and seeing life and learning from others. 

- 'Love and Marriage' what does love and marriage look like today? 

Living life and taking in and enjoying every moment – Taking each day in as a new experience

Reading - I love a good science fiction or fantasy adventure and just let my imagination go.

Individuality - I love people that get out there and live, who aren't afraid of what anyone else thinks and just creates, lives dances to their own tune