What's *your* personal 'best'?

Hello you.

Tell me ...

Saving things for 'best':

... is that something you do?
Is there something you're over-protective of; something you'd rather preserve than use; something you're afraid will become dirty / worn / imperfect / spoiled / broken or used-up?

Something you prefer to have safely tucked away; wrapped up; left unopened?

So, what is it?

• Patterned paper?
• Fabric?
• Beads?
• Dresses?
• Underwear?
• Tablecloths?

You tell me.

What's mine?

Well ... I'm all about protecting my 'best' notebooks from my drivel, my scribblings, my meaningless notes, my brain-emptying ... because I get it into my head that what they really deserve is only my 'best' work, my biggest plans, my most inspired ideas, my completely hilarious one-liners.

So I find myself using cheap, less-lovely notebooks first, or the ones someone else bought me that I didn't choose ... that have less emotional baggage attached.

[Why, yes, I believe I have indeed just admitted to attaching emotional baggage to notebooks ... you're seriously going to have to 'fess up about your own craziness now to make up for it!]

And do you know what happens when I'm using those second-best books?

I fill them with ease because I don't feel like I'm spoiling them!

And then, despite all the scrawl, no ...  because of all the scrawl and the workings out and doodles ... well, because of all this ...

... there's my best work ... my best ideas ... right there on those dog-eared pages.

So, I really ought to take my own advice ... the advice within this micro mini-book I made for a friend:

 The advice, [coined by my own fair brain] which goes ...that, when all's said and done ....

... your heart:

... is ...

... the only thing really worth ...

... saving ...

... for ...

... best.

And seeing as how I already managed that bit ...  the next time I need to make a note ... I'll try to remember my own advice  ...

... and reach for that beautiful notebook.

Because I can't predict when 'best' is going to show up ... and I don't want that pile of empty notebooks to stay that way forever.
So what do you say? Any plans to make the best of now?

Let me know if you blog about your personal 'best' and I'll drop round to read it.

Julie x


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Supplies
Chipboard 'Micro Accordian Book': by Collections Elements from 3DJean.co.uk [whose DT I'm part of].
Chipboard heart: by Collections Elements from 3DJean.co.uk

All papers + embellishments: from Crafty Templates' 'Downtown Tea Party' Quirky Kit which I'm guest designing with this month.

Stamps: new Papermania border stamps plus Studio G alphas.
Paint
Roller Doodle from Glitz
Punches by X-Cut

Also ... held together with love ... and a small ocean of Claudine Hellmuth's Studio Gloss Medium!