Showing posts with label scrapbooking; 12x12; graffitti; Michaelangelo; David; Les Editions Infocrea; work; careers;. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scrapbooking; 12x12; graffitti; Michaelangelo; David; Les Editions Infocrea; work; careers;. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Scrapbooking + thinking about deadlines ...+ paradise


Hi, hi.

There's something to be said for deadlines. Without them, not only would I not get any work done ... I'd not get any scrapbooking done either. And we can't have that!

Today's project comes courtesy of it being my turn to post a Design Team project over on the 3DJean blog and so, after what fees like weeks ... I got back on the scrapping-horse during the crop last Saturday, to make this from a new range of papers Jean has in stock:
Someone asked about the little guy on the left - he's a 'Pointy Hat Chap' by Cathy Cullis
I shared this photo, of graffiti on a sea wall, here a fortnight ago, but I liked it and its quote "In this place I have found my paradise" so much I decided to scrap with it too.

And, naturally I found an appropriate old page to plunder - in this case it's an encyclopedia entry on Michelangelo which mentions David:
[Seen here in Bermuda shorts which, I don't think he was wearing on the original marble sculpture ...]
Anyway, all this working to deadlines ... and scrapping ... and blogging ... and making paper packs ... and getting small business advice ... and planning a website ... and contemplating how I'll fit it all in once my part-time Uni job kicks in again soon ... and, just tonight, announcing to a smiling and nodding James the very latest entry on my [long, long] Things I Love To Do And Would Like To Be Paid For Doing Them list ...

... all of it has reminded me of a piece of advice I read sometime ...

It went something like: that to identify your passion, the thing you ought to be doing in life, the dream you should follow ... you should ask yourself what it is you do [or would do] willingly for free. And then do that.

[Disclaimer: I don't think sleeping late, wandering about in pyjamas and eating cheese all day counts. More's the pity.]
So, I guess I'll just have to start a new list titled: The Kinds of People Who Might Just Pay Me To Do That Thing I Love To Do ... and see how far I get!

How about you?
  • Where do you find your paradise?
  • What do you love to do ... and wish you could make a living from? and ...
  • Have you ever dressed a statue from classical antiquity in modern swimwear?
Let me know ...

Julie x