August - 2015

Smashing Ivory Productions

CARLY ANN WORDEN // SMASHING IVORY // CARLYSMASHESIVORY // CAWNAWYN MOR

modern classical

indie rock

visual art & music

fantasy & folk

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An Education in Priorities

An Education in Priorities

This summer has been one of the hardest few months I have gone through in terms of motivation and inspiration. What started as a victorious period of moving to my dream house, finding and paying for my wedding venue, writing an award winning show, and working 60+ hours a week, has ended with struggling to make my own deadlines and feeling musically stifled and nowhere near prepared for the year ahead of me. My Senior Recital, an hour long concert of original music that I have

What Is Vlog?

What Is Vlog?

Does anyone know that I vlog? ANYONE?! Very few people do and it's not because I'm super secretive about it, I just don't put as much time and effort into making videos for my vlog channel as I do my music channel. That being said, I definitely work hard to post videos. With my schedule, it becomes increasingly harder to dedicate time to video-making, which is a shame because I truly enjoy doing it. This blog has become more successful than I thought it would in the recent we

Giving Myself More Credit

Giving Myself More Credit

I would say I'm no stranger to doing things the "hard" way. The career I choose to pursue, my diet and exercise, my work ethic, my strict scheduling and organization of every aspect of my life... All of these decisions have shown me the value of putting in the hard work to get it right, and normally I benefit immensely from the choices I make. For example, most people don't choose a career in the arts, there's no money in that right? Oh, let me tell you, there's plenty of mon

A Richer, Fuller Life

A Richer, Fuller Life

So after doing my finances this morning (usually a long process that involves a lot of self loathing and regret for the last month, punctuated with a half confident goal for the next 2 weeks) I realized I had some major reshuffling to do. For example, last year I spent $25 with Seattle Symphony to purchase my Campus Club card so I could get $10 tix to the Symphony all year long. I never used it. Not once. Meanwhile, I look at the number of times I reloaded my Starbucks card t