Mother’s Day is coming soon so I came up with a fun project for FaveCrafts that I believe your mom will treasure.
The idea is to treat your mom as your valentine and write her micro love letters compiled together in a whimsical mini book.
For Step By Step instructions, just click on the Favecrafts banner below 🙂
And so the $50 gift certificate to Scrapbook.com goes to:
Thank you all so much for playing along. I really appreciate your feedback.
I love you all and will take each and every suggestion under consideration (including the ones asking for more giveaways 🙂 ).
Today is the last day to enter the drawing on Creativity Prompt for a $50 GIFT CERTIFICATE to Scrapbook.com.
For more details on the giveaway click here.
The contest is closed!
Hi everyone, I am so sorry for the bloop on today’s creativity prompt, “The 10 Minute Mini-Book”.
I was working late on a future project and publishing the video on You-Tube (which means changing it from a private video to a public one) has just slipped my mind.
I am really sorry, but the video is up now so you can go back here and watch it 🙂
Who can identify what are the most important elements of life more adequately than someone who had formed wondrous worlds, full of character and flair, knights and princesses?
No one can, right? Than let us soak up the words of Hans Christian Andersen:
“Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.â€
Living in Ireland, which can be rainy and gray, I do appreciate the warm rays of the sun, caressing my skin softly and brightening up my day. But a sun can also be a hug from a loved one, a warm word of encouragement, an unexpected compliment from a stranger and a wide and honest smile.
Freedom is indeed a key element in life, as without it we are nothing but marionettes, hand held puppets. Freedom gives us both the reason and the means to live.
When we are free and feel the sunshine above us (whether the weather is good or it is only the atmosphere around us), all we need for going on at full steam is a flower to bloom right in front of us and embellish our day, show us how beautiful life is – remind us that we are free and that the sun is shining.
What are your elements of life? Do you agree with Hans Christian Andersen’s list? Leave a comment and share your opinion.
A while back I had hosted a giveaway on my blog. The prize offered was a copy of the brilliant book: Visual Chronicles by: Linda Woods and Karen Dinino.
On October 15th I randomly picked up a winner, yet the prize has remained unclaimed, albeit an e-mail sent to the previous winner.
Therefore, I have randomly picked another winner, which is: Mary Doak.
Her comment was:
Celebrating with family. and goals for the new year will be to declutter our home. I have packed too many things in this little house. Thanks for sharing your time and gifts with all of us.
I am from the State of Maine
Congratulations Mary, please e-mail me your address, and I’ll send you a copy of the book 🙂
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Life in itself is an empty canvas,
it becomes whatsoever you paint on it.
You can paint misery, you can paint bliss.
This freedom is your glory.
Osho
I am still on a new-year-new-beginnings state of mind and what can be a better paradigm for the year than the canvas of life.
Each year we are gifted with a blank canvas on which we can paint in any way we choose to paint. We can use a large variety of mediums and tools – but moreover, we have the power to refrain from using some colors, shades and tones that do not do our life-art any good.
Our life is what we make of it. Our picture is what we choose to paint on our canvas. It depends on our rough sketch, our color-palette and the box of tools we choose to take along with us. Provided that we have taken the right tools and paints, our rough sketch will be taken over by more and more confident brush strokes.
This Wednesday is the Jewish “Day of Atonement”. (Yom-Kippur) On this day we are supposed to look deep into ourselves, beyond our material needs (such as food, water and bathing) and prepare an “analysis of the soul“.
This is the perfect opportunity for me to draw my rough sketch on the canvas of life.
Needless to say, this notion is open for every soul in the world and observing Judaism (or Yom-Kippur) is irrelevant (Hey, it’s a notion suggested by Osho…). The proximity to the holiday just puts me in a reflective state of mind which brings me to write about it right now. That’s it.
Leave a comment with your answers and thoughts.
I am bringing my heart and soul to this blog. I have done that from the very first day. Therefore, it’s always nice to know the blog is appreciated by my readers. This vote of confidence is rejuvenating and gives me an enormous boost of motivation.
Therefore I would like to take note of several affirmations I have received last week:
Thank you all – your positive feedback is much appreciated.
Feedback is also extremely important when it contains constructive criticism, so I can improve and make this blog even more fabulous.
So remember, I am always pleased to hear from you guys!!! Whatever you have to say.
Psst… You have a chance to win a copy of the book: Visual Chronicles by Linda Woods and Karen Dinino.
Enter the giveaway by leaving a comment here. Just follow the instructions and secure your place at the raffle.
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Yep, winners in plural!!!
As the first giveaway in Creativity Prompt, it entails a surprise, doesn’t it?! So… (drum rolls please)
Everyone who took the time to leave a comment is a winner.
Cate, Ellen, Toni, Jenny, Roxie and bee – please send me your current e-mail address and I’ll send you a copy of my new e-book: Unleashing The Creative Child Within You.
I am delighted to announce the release of my first e-book: Unleashing The Creative Child Within You. This e-book is a result of my own journey to find and reconnect with my inner creative child. I invite you to join me on this journey so you too will be able to spark your inner creative child.
September the 1st is the perfect timing for starting a new learning expedition. Nothing provides such a refreshing boost like learning something new. It helps to open your mind to new methods and get inspired by the new possibilities – limited only by your own power of thought.
Without further ado I invite you to embark on a journey which will take you back to a state of creativity abundance, the same state you had had as a child.
Please feel free to read more about my new e-book. I am sure you will benefit from my e-book and it will help your creativity soar in ways you had never imagined were possible anymore.
For a chance to win a free copy of my e-book, leave a comment to this post with some feedback on my blog. You may comment until September 13th 20:00 (GMT) and the happy winner will be announced on September 14th.
Have a great weekend!!!
As a lawyer I was used to spend long hours at the office and rarely take any vacation. I brought myself up to a state of complete physical exhaustion and only in retrospective I understood how badly I have been treating my body and how wondrous it is that it hasn’t failed me yet and endured the torture I had inflicted on it.
During the last couple of months I have been preoccupied with the website and my first e-book and some other personal matters and again the stress levels and the physical exhaustion came back knocking on my door. Two weeks ago, my husband and I took a vacation to Iceland. We returned back home yesterday. Iceland is absolutely amazing, but the trip was physically challenging and I ended up coming back sick with a nasty cold, complete with a sore throat and a fever.
Now it is time to remember my pledge and take some time off to heal. Therefore, I will not post any new posts until September 1st.
In the meantime you are more than welcome to enjoy the numerous free tutorials and prompts which are already posted.
I would also like to take an advantage of my time off and ask you to tell me what would you like to see more of in my website?
Please send me your much appreciated feedback and I will be back on September 1st with a new and improved site, based on your needs and wants.
Are you looking for an immediate creativity boost? Get this book now!
