Here be Dragons….
Yes, I know, #diy cake/cupcake stands aren’t exactly new to the blogosphere, but I thought it was high time we had a round up of the best on The Curb. Some are ingenious in the materials used, some are simply pretty. All of them, however, prove that you can use just about ANYTHING to make a cake stand.
Curated from Curbly
This has me thinking about moving my bed that way. Would I have more space or not? Hmmmm.
It’s complicated by the fact that my bedroom is also my home office and pretty much everything else except the kitchen and bathroom. Luckily the laundry isn’t in here too.
I’m trying the parkour idea, but it’s hard to feel inspired and energized when it comes to exercise when you aren’t fit or slim. Often we need to look outside ourselves for inspiration. I know the fitness gurus will tell you to be inspired from within, to do it for yourself, and so on. That would be great if that worked every time.
The Amazon plugin I was using us causing errors and making all my posts unreadable. So I have deleted it and all the links which were here (and a few other posts) are now pretty useless, so I deleted them too.
Let Life In: 12 Ways to Rev Up your Inspiration
We thought it important to first learn more about what one needs to do to let life in, to allow oneself to be open to new ideas and new ways of looking at things.
Here’s what we learned about inspiration.
1. To experience inspiration you have to be open to new ideas, flexible and willing to change. You need to quiet the voice that tells you “I can’t, it’s too hard, it won’t work, I’m too old” or any other downer self talk.
2. Don’t be afraid to put it out there. If you are passionate about your inspiration, others will follow your passion. People will want to find out more about why you love something so much.
3. Use adversity as a learning experience. When something doesn’t work for you, think about how it can be made better. What needs to change? Be the inspiration for that change.
4. Get started. Quickly. Before you allow yourself to talk yourself out of it. “I can’t knit, I have two left hands.” “I’m too old to ballroom dance, surfboard, learn karate,” “I don’t have the time.” If you need to, divide a piece of paper down the middle, write down your excuse and on the left side and in the next column dispute it. And reread the right hand column as often as you need to.
5. Turn off the noise. Noise comes in all kinds of packages. The Internet, the family, the job, the bills, the cell phone, all the distractions. Consider it all noise and remove yourself for a period of time. If need be, seek solitude. Solitude enables you to focus on your mind and body and to tune in to your environment. Inspirations that can’t cut through the noise are subtle. In solitude you can experience them.
6. Don’t attach an outcome. What if your inspiration doesn’t fly? The idea doesn’t work. You really do have two left hands? So what? You’ll learn something from the experience no matter what. You’ll learn so much from the effort that the outcome really doesn’t matter. For achievement oriented individuals, not attaching an outcome is particularly challenging. Go for it.
7. Visualize. Generate the emotions of your inspiration by creating a mental picture. When you picture your dream you will begin to attract what you need to accomplish it.
8. Find a support crew. Ignore the naysayers and surround yourself with people who choose to encourage you. They’ll support you and help you achieve your goal.
9. Teach. When you have an inspiration, teach it to others. None of us knows it all. When you teach, you do your best learning.
10. Don’t accept no for an answer. Just because something’s always been done one way, doesn’t mean there aren’t better ways to do it. Many better mousetraps need to be built. Ask questions, question the answers.
11. Take a risk. Learn to live with uncertainty. Maybe you will fail. Or, more than likely, you’ll feel alive instead of bored. And you might still fail.
12. Pay it forward. You’ve reached a stage in life that enables you to allow others to learn from your experiences. Embrace your life stage and be the inspiration you are waiting for.
Typography is the art and technique of using and arranging letters, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. There are many different branches of typography. One of them is the form of portrait making or text art. A collection of Beautiful Typefaces Typographic Portraits. A great design trend of seen appearing more and more often around the web is using typography to create portraits. This post I’ve compiled an amazing list of 50 beautiful typography portraits which are perfect for inspiration and are simply mind blowing designs. Text isn’t just limited to language, it can be also used to create unique, unusual pieces of art. With the modern tools and software that are readily available such as Photoshop and Illustrator, creative typography has become a great design trend.
Copying this from the Book Dreaming blog
Failure does not mean I’m a failure;
It does mean I have not yet succeeded.Failure does not mean I have accomplished nothing;
It does mean I have learned something.Failure does not mean I have been a fool;
It does mean I had enough faith to experiment.Failure does not mean I have disgraced;
It does mean I have dared to try.Failure does not mean I don’t have it;
It does mean I have something to do in a different way.Failure does not mean I am inferior;
It does mean I am not perfect.Failure does not mean I have wasted my life;
It does mean that I have an excuse to start over.Failure does not mean that I should give up;
It does mean that I should try harder.Failure does not mean that I will never make it;
It does mean that I need more practice.Failure does not mean that You have abandoned me;
It does mean that You must have a better idea.-Unknown