Another week flies by

Earlier this week the lovely Chris Miller nominated me for this award. I feel deeply honored Chris. Thanks you very much.

I would love to nominate these lovely ladies in return

Gayle Smith

Beverley Warrick

Carolina

Lali

Chrissy

You all inspire me and I love to check out your blogs.

You have got to wonder where this week has gone - it has been busy as usual. Too much too do and not enough time to do it. On Friday night I sat down to organise some pages to complete at our scrapbooking crop on Saturday - I ended up having a late night as I just had to finish the pages before I went to bed. Come Saturday and I really did not have anything prepared. Nevermind, I helped a friend work on her 60th Brithday mini album, and I also managed to help my friend Ann finish the kits for a mini album we are going to be teaching at a ladies retreat in a couple of weeks time.

I have a couple of paper layout to share. Unfortunately they did not photograph well. The colours are much more vibrant than they look here.I have also been playing around with brushes and maskes this week in Photoshop. Today I managed to make my own brush so check this out. I have also learned to load masks and apply them to photos. I don't think I will ever be able to learn all the amazing things these programs have to offer. My brain is suffering from overload at the moment.

I have lost my voice again - well in all honestly I probably have never got it completely back from the last time I lost it - Steve also has a cold now and is loosing his voice as well. We make a good pair. Just praying Chloe keeps well, as she has a very busy week this week. Futsal Grand finals for her tomorrow evening, She has three large assignments due in the next 10 days, plus is working or has sport every evening this week. She also has her Year 12 QCS exams in a couple of weeks time , so she cannot not aford to get sick.I came across the following article on creativity this week, and thought I would like to share it with you. Definately think there is a merit of truth in it. Lets never forget though that it is God who has given us all the gift of creativity, and that there are so many wonderful ways of expressing this gift.

The Joys of Creating

Delivered By: Lloyd D. Newell

Nancy was eight years old when a teacher looked at her drawing and spoke six words Nancy would never forget: “You’re not very talented, are you?”The words not only embarrassed her, they burrowed inside her, creating a firm resolve never to make a fool of herself by attempting to draw or paint again.It took more than five decades for Nancy to outgrow this image of herself as a clumsy, artless, and uncreative person. Today Nancy knows something she wishes she could have understood when she was eight: the reason we create is not for the praise of others but because we love something so much we want to see it exist.That’s what creative people do. They bring to life things that didn’t exist before.Creativity is one of the great, mysterious hungers we all have as mortal souls, and there are as many ways to express this divine drive as there are people who feel it. Some of the most creative people in the world never pick up a paintbrush, sit down at a piano, or fill a page with words. Yet because of them, the world is filled with scented gardens, warm quilts, and loving relationships. Sometimes the most important thing we create is as simple as a smile.Many of us have something we’ve always wanted to try to do but never quite got around to it—perhaps because we lacked the confidence, or maybe because we were afraid we would fail. The good news is this: when we set aside our fears and begin to create, we make not only our lives but our world more meaningful and more wonderful.One wise man put it this way: “God left [the] world unfinished. . . . He left the problems unsolved and the pictures unpainted and the music unsung that man might know the joys and glories of creation.”

11 Attributed to Alan Stockdale by Sterling W. Sill in Conference Report, Apr. 1960, 70.

It is hard to beleive that in the past 16 months almost 10,000 people have dropped by to visit my blog. It has truely amazed me that so many of you have dropped in, and I feel deeply honored that you have. If you visit I would love to hear from you, To celebrate this milestone, I thought I would love to give a RAK to one of my visitors in the next week or so, so don't forget to say hello and I will drawn one of your names out of a hat, and a little parcel will find its way to your place.
Have a great week.