good-bye and hello: re-branding in the middle of a pandemic

Hello everyone!

First and foremost I want to say that I want to give some sort of explanation for my disappearance from the site and social media.

Last year in October I had to stop what I was doing to focus on myself and my family. We were going through a difficult time, however, during that time I also realized I needed to take time to figure out what I direction I wanted to take PinkLemonade Artistry.

I sat with it for a really long time. If I was totally honest with myself I felt that it was time to change the name and move in a somewhat different direction. Although my vision isn’t 100% clear I have a better idea of what I want to do and how I want to move forward, but following my intuition I needed to and wanted to change my name.

When I started PinkLemonade Artistry I was in so much pain, physically, it was in the middle of a disc herniation in my lower back. I couldn’t move much and was only able to walk outside my house for a few minutes. PinkLemonade Artistry was just a place on Instagram where I could share my art and connect with folks. I’ve met some awesome people along the way. I’m an introvert so hiding behind the camera is my go to :-) I’ve only shown my face a handful of times.

My ideas are growing and I’m growing so I wanted to do the same with my social media presence. Now when I made this decision back in December I never thought that the change would come in the middle of a pandemic. In fact originally I was going to make the changes around March 12, 2020. But I decided to delay because it didn’t feel like the right time. But I want to come back and connect with folks because in the middle of this situation the worst thing we can do is isolate, we may be quarantined but that doesn’t equal isolation.

So with that I say goodbye to PinkLemonade Artistry, I say thank you for allowing me to begin my journey. But now it’s time to welcome Vivir Creatividad

I want to officially launch over the next few days. But I wanted to do this post to let you in on the process of my decision. I didn’t think that it would be such a quick transition, as I had mentioned before I wanted to ease into it a bit more. However, I think that as things stand in the world the ideas I have will be more needed than ever before so I decided to move forward faster than I wanted.

Vivir Creatividad

In English it translates into living creatively, I chose this because I consider myself to be a multi-passionate person and I wanted to capture this essessence in the new name. I also wanted it to be a way of life. Living creatively doesn’t just apply to the arts, it’s also how we deal with difficult situations and how we manage day to to day life.

Moving forward I wanted to bring into this space my background in mental health and education. I wanted to incorporate more than just talking about art supplies and techniques, but bring in more a human aspect of creativity.

I plan to do a more detailed post on the vision that I have for Vivir Creatividad in the future (which will come sooner rather than later). I hope that you will join me on this new journey and that you find it helpful during these stressful times.

I will be starting to transition my name on all social medias and other platforms, so it might be messy for a bit but that’s part of the process!