The Crafty Scribe's Favourite Quotes - 8 and Project of the Day.

Dear Scribblers

Is there a project you want to begin today?

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." Lao-tzu.

Project of the Day - Even if it's a HUGE project, such as a 12x12 album, or even a novel. Do something to begin your journey today. Could you gather the photos together, or choose the papers? Could you buy yourself a new notebook to write down your plot and character ideas? Could you begin a journal to make a note of your daily life?

Take that first step today.

Happy Scribing!

Happy Bank Holiday! And Project of The Day.

Dear Scribblers!

Happy Bank Holiday Monday to all of you in the UK.

So what are you doing with your extra day at home? Are you on holiday, or are you one of the unlucky ones working? Are you hopefully using it to do some extra scrapping?

Whatever you are doing, I hope it's not raining on you too much, and not spoiling your plans?

Project of the Day - Grab your craft  or writing supplies and a spare 30 minutes, and see what you can do in that short span of time.  Set a timer and work against the clock. You might be amazed what you achieve in the time frame.

On Your Marks... Get Set... Go Creative!

Happy Scribing!

The Crafty Scribe Communiqué - My Year as a Poet!

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Dear Scribblers

We are now a third into the year.

That's 122 days and 122 poems at My Year as A Poet - by The Crafty Scribe 

I'm attempting to write a poem a day, and up to now I've been successful!

Thank you to everyone for browsing onto the blog to read the poems.

Please pass the address http://365poem2010.blogspot.com onto all your passionate poetry lyrical loving friends.

Only 243 to go!

Happy Scribing!

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The Crafty Scribe's Favourite Quotes - 7, and a Project of the Day

Dear Scribblers

Here's another affirmation of articulation, and sentence of smarts, by Albert Einstein -

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Has this happened to you? You look back on your life to assess a time of trouble to say, "Wow! If I didn't go through that - then this amazing thing wouldn't have happened." or "When I thought that I was at my lowest, this happened to help me." 

This links to that other popular saying -

"Everything happens for a reason."

Once you take a breath and a step back from a situation; a solution, or a way to alleviate the burdens, can often be found, producing events to ease and assist, or even create brand new opportunities you would have never ever considered. The difficulty can be an enormous life changing incident, or it can be something seemingly insignificant, which brings me to today's project.

Project of the Day - Do you have a scrapbook page, mini-book, art work, or piece of writing you are having difficulty with? Have you set it to one side, and think that you will never complete it?

If so, take it out now. Look at it with fresh eyes.

• Can you create a new opportunity out of it? 
• Can you see a way of fixing the problem to continue with your original idea, now that you haven't worried about it for a while?
• Or can you move away from that idea, and alter the project so that it becomes something entirely new?

I did exactly that with the project below. I had planned to create a little holiday mini-book using pub beer mats at the base. I started it, but found I wasn't particularly keen on this size of project for the photos I wanted to use. I needed to go larger.

However, I'd completed a couple of mats, so I quickly made another base, and joined them together to create a little hanging banner 'photo frame' for my study wall. I added papers to the backside of each mat, and added hidden journalling to each one. (It's photographed lying on a table, when it's on the wall it hangs in a curve.)

Go ahead! Salvage that difficult project, and create a new opportunity from it. Finish it today.

Happy Scribing!

The Crafty Scribe's Favourite Quotes - 6

Dear Scribblers

I have another quote for you, from the great Albert Einstein -

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Now that's an amazing statement coming from a genius!

Imagination is what inspires to write, scrapbook, paint, create, invent and produce. Listen to your own inner voice, it's your creativity and imagination talking to you. Please listen to it.

If you like this quote, it is available on a sticker from Basic Grey - I have it as part of a collection pack called 'Archaic.' It's a selection of earthy tones, natural designs and cute dinosaurs! You can see the Element Sticker sheet here at the Basic Grey website - this is the direct link. It was produced in 2008 and is marked as sold out, but you may find it somewhere on the internet.

Happy Scribing!

Script Frenzy Win... and an apology!

Dear Scribblers

I've done it! I've completed the Script Frenzy task - 100 pages in 30 days. Well, actually 104 pages in 26 days. First draft completed, the long hard slog of editing ahead of me.

Very proud of myself, but I do have an apology.

In my frenzy to write the script, I forgot you, my scribblers. I am so sorry, but do not fret! I'm back on track now, and will be posting on a regular basis. Starting with the on-going Journalling Your Life, and Favourite Quotes.

I'll be posting soon.

Happy Scribing!

The Crafty Scribe Communiqué - Script Frenzy begins!

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Dear Scribblers

Script Frenzy starts today. 30 days of 100 pages of Scriptwriting - be it a film, television, radio, cartoon or play script.

Get involved! Check it out here or click the picture link on the sidebar.

Happy Scribing!

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