When I was little, like three or four years old, I used to go to my next-door neighbor’s house to play. Her name was Edna Johnson, but we called her Mrs. J and she used to ask me “What do you want to make today?” Her studio upstairs was filled with canvases all over the walls, drawers of buttons and beads, and from an early age, I learned the fun in creating something new. It forced me to let go of any sense of failure and just embrace the uncertainty and sometimes uncomfortable feeling of not knowing how something might turn out. It’s part of the process and the “shrug-your-shoulders-let’s-see-what-happens” attitude is critical when you’re creating something new. Every hesitation or insecurity must be dropped. All the judgment you’ve learned over the years, drop it. You have to be okay with things not looking the same or a certain way. You have to get comfortable with being a little uncomfortable sometimes.