"Finishing races is important, but racing is more important." -Dale Earnhardt As I wrote about in "Candle Countdown", I am a bit of a quitter. My brain thrives in the land of ideas, yet I sometimes lose my excitement in bringing something full circle. Thus, one of my items on my life list was to finish a 30 (or 31) day challenge. You know them--they are all over Facebook and the Web. Be grateful for 30 days or do the Whole 30 or 30 Days of pretending to be perfect. I have tried SO many of these challenges, have come close, but have not finished many (or really any). Digital scrapbooking used to be one of my favorite pastimes, but over the past few years, I had lost my mojo. So, when The Lilypad Announced their Month of Challenges, I though this might be the perfect challenge for me to take on. It would help me to practice self discipline (which I obviously could use since I don't finish things) as well as help me fall back love in with my creative outlet. Each day through out the month, a new challenge was posted and away I went to scrap. Now, it would have been easy to quit. I owned very little from The Lilypad store so had to make an investment in scrapping supplies. I got a MASSIVE cold in the middle of the month which had me sidelined. Yet, I felt a pull to finish this. To fall back in love with my hobby as well as prove to myself that I was worth finishing something. So, here are the results. How do I feel? Amazing, proud, creative, and accomplished. I learned several new techniques including how to justify font in Photoshop elements and how to create a geometric mosaic from a photograph. I fell back in love with creating art as well as telling our stories. Now I am excited to scrap for fun and to start working on finishing my scrapbooks which I have fallen desperately behind on.
Here is to a great January and all my beautiful layouts! Hope you enjoy.
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AuthorAlmost 40 and tired of the treadmill, I am going to LIVE each day as a new adventure while finishing todo items on my life list. Mom, wife, teacher, geek! Archives
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