Remember my former post?
The pressure I felt?
I solved it!
I’m back to my familiar ME again.
Wanna know what I did?

I took a day “off” and did nothing scrapbook related
I forced myself to “loose another day” and I hoped, by doing that,
to get rid of the “must”- feeling.
It worked, ’cause when I started creating again yesterday, the joy was there!

I played with gesso, I made a mess with heavy gel medium (and yes, that takes
a night to dry, and that’s good for my soul and for my creativity ’cause I need
that time to over think my next “move”) and I had fun playing!
And today, when I woke up, I knew which way I wanted my pages to go
and I finished 3 (yep, three!) other pages for my BOM!

Are they any good?
Guess what – I don’t care!
I like them and I enjoyed myself again just creating.
Just for ME!

But of course I will show you what I did…

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Oh man, Monday morning and I feel pushed and rushed for no reason –
I do this to myself you know!
I’m three “BOM-daily prompts” behind and I know I can’t catch up…
if I try, my work would go down the hill.

I have to except that I’m a slow scrapper and it’s just thát what makes
my work the way it is. Worthwhile!
I must allow myself to play and create other things than “BOM” if I want to.
Nobody’s forcing me to work on that every day…
I can do it later.
Or not.
Or whatever.

It’s a hard lesson to learn: let it loose.
Relax, create for fun only!

Michelle struggles with it too sometimes, I just went to her blog
’cause I remember she wrote about it.
Here’s what she wrote: 

“I learned (or should I say re-learned) a valuable lesson this week:
Always create to satisfy your own heart. Trying to create something
for someone else’s approval just plain doesn’t work, and it’s a sure way
to come up with a bad case of artist’s block….
Artist’s block is something that happens to me every so often and
each time it takes me awhile to come back to the same conclusion
I noted above. I’m trying too hard. Once I realize that and let go
I’m free again. It’s getting to the point of realization that is sometimes
the hard part. Each time I get a little better at it though, so that’s progress, right?”

Thanks for reminding me Michelle!!!

I don’t know what today will bring,
but I did two BOM pages earlier that I hadn’t show you yet,
so here’s some creativeness…

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My second post on one day – what the h….

But this girl is waaaayyyy happy!
Not only did I win the “One Little Word” challenge last week
and a KIT over at Corinne’s blog

I also won The Next Step ‘s monthly prize!!!!

OH.MY!!!! This is gonna be ONE. HAPPY. WEEKEND!!!

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Lotus Paperie
challenge #136
is a sketch again
but before I
show you
what I did
with it,
you should
know this first…

• In 1977, Yves Saint Laurent (a famous French fashion designer)
  launched a new perfume called “Paris” and a few years later it was
  available in the Netherlands. I was 19 and I liked the advertising
  campaign! There was a beautiful lady (skinny, of course) and the
  Eiffel Tower (of course!) and the smell was described as something
  with “wild roses”. At that very moment, I knew.
  This will be MY perfume!
  So I went to a perfume shop to smell the stuff – and I was right!
  I wear that perfume ever since. Yes, I know it’s expensive.
  It’s pure luxury! And yes, I tried different odours…
  but no. “Paris” is my perfume. 
  In fact, I heard several times from friends: “I was there-and-there
  and I smelled you come by, but it wasn’t you…

• Just a couple of weeks ago, I met a fabulous lady on the Internet.
  Her name is Cynthia, she makes marvelous scraps and you should
  definitely check out her blog “Technicolorpostcards“.
  Although (or because?) she lives in the USA,
  she’s way over her head madly in love with France and Paris… 
  I saw some postcards and old pictures of Paris on her blog,
  and got inspired!

And so, dear readers…. my Lotus lay out is all about perfume this week!

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WARNING: long post… Lot’s of stuff!

It’s been a while, but I made a lay out for ScrapMojo again.
There’s been some changes on that challenge blog and from now on
they’re doing only one challenge a month instead of the 2 they normally did.
This gives you longer to do them, which I am happy with ’cause I usually love
their challenges, but I can hardly find time to make all the lay outs I want
– or have to make – in one or two weeks!

Anyway, this is challenge #36
“Desperate times call for desperate measures. We have all been through some
tough times or seen someone close to us struggle. We challenge you to make
a page about how the economy has affected you. Tell us your views or maybe
how you have survived these tough times. The second part of your challenge
is to use something square or something recycled.”

The first thing I thought about, reading this, were my shoes…
I have quite a few pair of shoes, but last year a lot of them got tattered,
and I didn’t have the money to buy new ones or even let them repair….
And every time I saw my shoes I had an old nursery rhyme spinning through my head… 

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On August 1, Cocoa Daisy started with an initiative to create a “Book of Me”.
Every day in August there will be a post (“Daily Prompt”) on the
message board which can be used as a page in a Book of Me Album.
At the end of the 31 days, you’ll have 31 pages about yourself to compile.

Since I have an account there, I’d thought I would join in –
I decided to do a 6×6 album, and cut all the cardboard in advance.

There has been two prompts so far (August 1 and 2) and I like them both!!!
(if there’s a prompt you don’t like, you just skip that one)
If you wanna join in – it’s not to late! Hop on over and play along!

I have already finished two pages…
wanna see?

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I invited my alter ego today to help me pick the winner of my #100 post.

Her name is Tiram,
and she brought
along her
apprentice Tuon.

There were a lot
of reactions on 
my post #100,
and I thank
every one of you
for your
nice words!
18 people also came
with a challenge
to go with the
shown photo’s
These 18 names
went in Tuon’s hat.  

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