Agent Crafty
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
When I’m packing my purse to leave the house, the usual suspects get tossed in first: cell phone, keys, wallet and lip gloss. Once those survival kit pieces are packed, in goes my little pink notebook.
Since I was old enough to look around, I’ve been creating things. Poems, songs, paintings, plays and clay sculptures only a mother could love – ideas and projects have always just poured from me. I’m not very good at balancing my checkbook (okay, I never actually have) and chemistry was the bane of my existence in school. But the creative stuff? Done and done.
With all the ideas that I have, I have found it essential to carry around my little pink notebook. If I don’t write these ideas down, I’ll never remember anything and end up creating very little.
Ask any of my close friends or my husband – if inspiration strikes me, out comes that slim, leather-bound book. It’s no larger than a checkbook and no heavier. The thought of adding more weight to my already heavy shoulder bag makes me not want to create anything but somewhere to sit.
Here are a few randomly selected ideas from the LPN. Most of them lead to completed projects I most surely would’ve forgotten had it not been for my perfect creativity companion.
- bird picture frame
- curtain made from neckties – ask Dina!
- faux wall paneling
- go to Bleeding Heart Bakery [okay, this wasn’t a DIY project idea, just a note to self – baked goods can definitely inspire]
- Mary K. Fons
