Boredom is the Mother of Invention

To say I'm bored is probably an over-statement. To say that I have a lot more free time than I'm used to is pretty accurate, however. Needless to say, my soaring ambitions of working through a huge list of literature and finishing writing several books have been realized to be...quite insane. My summer now consists of roaming around from project to project in happy bliss. Was that redundant?

It's amazing what you can do with common household items.

Project #1--Tying white buttons onto a red thread to create a very pretty but useless string of buttons. White buttons. I found a plethora of white buttons just lying on the ground and my creative instinct immediately jumped on them. My hoarding instinct immediately forced me to begin picking them up. Once I had got them, I had no clue what to do with them. And one afternoon last week, when I found myself with nothing to do, I began to string them onto a red thread. I'm still figuring out what to do with it.

Project #2--Creating a trash can dedicated to used tissues. Being the eternal optimist, I took advantage of my recent cold to make something creative. I have an empty tissue box and several cough drop wrappers, and I am planning to combine the two to come up with a...well, a tissue box decorated with cough drop wrappers. (if you're looking at me oddly, you're having the same reaction as my mom did). But really! It's perfect for me, because I'm always throwing used tissues on my bedroom floor. Having a trash can (a decorated trash can) just for used tissues would really be helpful.

Project #3--Re-attaching a head to an otherwise lovely rocking-horse. Right now, the headless rocking horse is in my closet. She's this amazing light green, with (hand painted, I believe) roses all over her. Her name is Rosie, obviously. Now that all of us kids have moved past the rocking horse stage, I'm going to put her head back on her and sell her on e-bay for money. =) No, for chocolate.

Yum. Chocolate.

Hugs & Blessings,

Izori

Homemade Notebooks

I use these for when I have an idea for a story that sounds rather good, but one that isn't good enough to take up a notebook with. Homemade notebooks don't have as many pages as store-bought ones, but they're really good for rough first-drafts.

You will need:

1 file folder-color of your choice
several pages of paper, maybe...20, or however much you think you can staple through.
a staple machine (with staples inside--unlike my first try)

Put the pages of paper inside the file folder, getting it adjusted how you want. Then close the folder, and staple the spine securely. Very securely--maybe 8 or so times--and make sure to staple through the pages of paper.

And there you have it. The homemade notebook.

If you have one like mine, it'll have the tab on it, so you can label it for easy sorting methods. You can also decorate the front, too. I did this for my sci-fi book.

Izori