I received this today from a Yahoo group I belong to and I thoguht it was worth spreading around. This really spoke to me because I have a hard time MAKING the time to scrapbook. We are all busy and we have to CARVE the time our of our schedules for ourselves. This article reminded me that I NEED to do that for myself for my own sanity. So many times I think I should be doing something more productive (laundry, bills, cleaning etc..) or I feel too tired to work up my creative juices. This a...
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Are your photos safe? I mean REALLY safe. Are you sure? I personally rely on my photos to freeze time. Kids grow up way too fast; pets and loved ones pass away (sometimes unexpectedly and without warning). As we age, our memories fade, but photos can bring back those memories or even keep them from ever fading in the first place. This is why my photos are one of my most treasured possessions. I want to talk to you about making sure you don't lose your photos. This is a subject I am high...
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We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. [Max De Pree] Found this quote on Stacy Julian's blog: http://www.stacysbigpicture.typepad.com/
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From Stacy Julian's preview of her upcoming Big Picture Scrapbooking class called Have More Fun: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's a book on creativity. It's called Thinker Toys, so it's a play on the Tinker Toys idea, and I'm going to read you a cool excerpt from it. It goes like this: Creative people are joyful and positive. Creators look at what is and what can be instead of what is not. Instead of e...
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"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step
out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."
-M.Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author (1936-2005)

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