My life as a scrapbooker

I'm learning a hard lesson about being a perfectionist. I’m one of those people who likes to have a grand plan, seeing everything stretched far out in front of them. Don’t get me wrong, I also like an element of spontaneity - but only if I’ve scheduled it.

This mindset has tripped me up at times when approaching the All Before Thirty project. Like the scrapbooking, for example. My ideal scenario involves dabbling in art direction – storyboarding, page setting, planning exactly what is going to go where – but when I couldn’t do that, due to not knowing what resources I’d be able to use, I kind of idled on it. There have been small, preparatory steps, at least, but it is strangely reminiscent of my early high school art class. “Don’t just keep drawing over the same lines,” Mrs Hardinge would scold, “Move onto something else. Finish the artwork.” (It was a picture of a leopard in a tree, by the way. Turned out ok I think.)

It's more important just to get things done and keep the ball rolling, even if it is in a less than perfect capacity. Hence I bought a little book and some coloured paper and starting randomly cutting and gluing. There is no grand plan, I don’t know how many pages I’ll need to allocate, and who needs a theme anyway? This is another one of those unexpected lessons I clearly needed to learn. ... It’s not really about scrapbooking at all, is it?

Scatterbrained

Hmm, what to write about today. Forefront of my mind just now is the urgency of this Amazing Race application, which Jaimi is coming over to finalise tonight, and it is going to be kick-ass. Also, I have another driving lesson at 9am on Saturday morning – what was I thinking when I booked that? It compromises my Friday night somewhat. No matter, it will force me to actually be awake at a reasonable hour. I bought a $5 book on scrapbooking from the Bargain Basement store yesterday, because it occurred to me that I wasn’t really sure what scrapbooking was. It’s great! I’m actually looking forward to putting my scrapbook together now. It’s nice to have a craft-related challenge. It’ll be like Kindergarten all over again. I’m getting into ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ and finding myself drawn to the little girl Mick. She’s brilliant. I see myself in her a bit, except without the masses of siblings.

I’d also like to use this cheeky opportunity to cross-promote:

Upcoming Dusker gigs:
Thurs 16th September @ The Wall, Leichhardt
Sun 26th September @ Sly Fox, Enmore

Do the clicky to the website for more details. Sorry this blog was a bit dull but you can’t win ‘em all I guess.