Creativity and whatnot

The little attacker...
My dad...God I miss him.
So as you all know I love to scrapbook. It's usually not a stressful thing for me, quite the opposite actually. But the other night, I was working on a page and I hated it. I started to get really critical of myself and just decided to forget it. I put the page aside, cleaned up my stuff and went to bed all pissed off (I've often been told I'm my own worst critic (and enemy) - I tend to be a little hard on myself). I see all of these great pages in the magazines I read and I was like, "why can't I think of these things these people do? Just throwing crap on a page and it looks fantastic?". Well, I woke up the next morning, determined to scrap later that night and turn that page into something I loved. I don't love it, but I don't hate it. I actually kind of like it. I think I just need to learn to trust my instinct, which I normally do, and just not put something down if I don't "feel" it. Since then I've created some really great pages I think, pages I'm really proud of. Since I really started putting picture to paper a few months ago (as you know, I've been collecting supplies in earnest for years, never really doing anything with them), I've filled up 4 albums. Working on #5 now. Anyway, there you go. The lesson of the day is trust your instinct, do what your love, and don't let yourself get in the way. Above are some of the pages I've done recently (note: said page is not shown, I haven't quite finished it I don't think...). Sorry about the picture quality. I didn't have the patience to crop or monkey around in Photoshop to lighten them up.

Have a WONDERFUL weekend!