We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Meg Paxton. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Meg below.
Alright, Meg thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?
The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my current building for my new businesses. Although I’ve done wedding, family, and pet photography by trade for the last 25 years, I also love creating other small businesses. I’m working on a stitchery right now. We offer clothing alterations and make bunches of other things for the home. This business goes hand in hand with my dog clothing store, The Teenie Weenie Store, where we make clothes fit specifically to the long and low Dachshund. To house all of these little businesses, I have a very old building in a little one-stop-sign town in Northern Michigan. Through years of physical work with my own hands, I’ve brought back a “just old building” in small town America, to a location that speaks to revitalization and bettering a community.
Meg, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
I am a person who does not sit still and refers big scary challenges. I’ve done hand crafting arts since childhood. I’ve always been able to see things in my head before I make them. All of this has helped me in my main career of photography. I am able to see things as I want to capture them, same in things I want to create with my hands. It all goes together; vision, design, build, repeat.
What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?
The most rewarding part of being creative and making a life out of art is you can do it anywhere, anytime. Also, that means you are working all of the time. But that’s okay. Inspiration comes from every single thing and interaction in life. The more you do, the more you get, the more you give, the more you do.
What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?
My main mission that drives my creative journey is to never have a “boss”. Or a “real job”. Those are really gross words to me. My goal is to walk through this life with the freedom of my own time to create wherever and whenever it moves me. To do as much or as little is needed. To never close the doors on ideas and inspiration.
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