mission statement

I've been wanting to create a personal mission statement for quite some time, and last night I found a really great tool that finally helped me do just that. While I'm not sure I want to share my mission statement just yet, I'm really, really excited about it! I am hoping that referring back to it reminds me of the things I want to accomplish and keeps me on track to do so.

That's the point, right?

Anyway, if you, too, have been looking to do something like this for yourself...look no further! :)

{digiscrap} hello home.

Now that we are settled getting settled, I am happily picking back up where I left off with (re)learning Photoshop Elements so that I can get started with digital scrapbooking. I just finished the online course I started over at JessicaSprague.com late last spring, and the above layout was the final byproduct of that.

I forgot how much fun I have working in PSE! I am pretty sure I want to take another of her classes, and soon. In the meantime, I'll be starting Becky Higgins's Project Real Life on Thursday and I am SO excited. (This is another reason I decided to refresh my PSE skill set -- I'm going to do my Project Life album digitally.) I have admired Becky's work for years and years, and have been anxiously waiting to take this class since it was announced last year!

So, that's what I'm up to at the moment, trying to work some of that muchly missed creativity back into my life, a little at a time and in between boxes. Stay tuned. I'll have more to share soon!!

embarking on a creative adventure

More often than not, my love of creating gets overshadowed by my need to produce something perfect as the end result. Even now, as I sit here writing this blog entry, I'm pouring over every word as though it's the most important thing ever to be written. I will proofread and edit countless times, and finally it will get posted, but I still won't be happy with it.

I get so caught up with how I think others will see the end product that I don't allow myself to simply enjoy the process of creating it. This is something I've desperately been wanting to change about myself.

One day last spring while surfing around the web, I stumbled on a link to the website of an e-course called Inside Out: A Creative Adventure of Self-Discovery. As soon as I read the description, I knew I had to enroll in the next session.

Since the I registered at the end of April, I've been anxiously waiting all summer for it to begin and today was (finally!!!!!) the big day.

I'm not going to go into details about my lessons here because Shannon puts a lot of love into them, but I will share that the photo* above is of my first creative play exercise in my new journal. I'm absolutely thrilled with how it turned out, and how easy it actually was for me to make something without second guessing every little step. I'm really quite proud of this page.

And, you know what? I'm proud of me, too.


*Sorry that the photo quality is so poor. I had to use my iPhone because my camera battery charger is still in a box somewhere :(