the secret to creativity...

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." Albert Einstein (smart fellow) "You just gotta know where to steal ideas and change them enough to make them your own." Mary Kaye Moore (one of my college roomies and probably the first crafty/creative person I ever studied.) So maybe I have never had an original idea of my own. I am ok with that. Here is how I know I am not coming up with anything new. I get a great idea. Like - "wow, can't wait to scrap this...it is gonna look great...never seen it before" kind of idea. Then, the next day in the gallery at 2 peas....I see my fab original idea posted by someone who is NOT me. HOW? Well, I figure my idea wasn't all that original. I bet we both saw the same commercial, magazine, etc. that sparked similar ideas. There you go. Ah well. I am OK with the no original ideas feeling. I am gonna swim in it until my fingers get all prunie. OK - anyone know what Meg Ryan movie that last line was from? Speaking of not original....I scrapped a page about ME last night based on an add. It is ok - not my fave. I am not into the scrapping about me. I got too many pics about the kids sitting around. BUT - I did. There isn't even a flower on it. But it is about me. I am going to try to insert a little more me in my scrapbook, into my journaling. I want to feel like I am leaving more traces of ME in my scrapbook. Not just in case something happens and my kids refer to these books to learn more about who I was. But to help me remember who I am now. Because, dude, I am so forgetting stuff. See what a copy cat I am?? SO a copy cat. (did you ever play that she's copying me game as a kid? MAN - I was so good at being annoying!) OK - on a diff topic: AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN NOT REMEMBER HOW OLD SHE IS? Seriously. I had to stop and do the math 2005-1973 = 32...right? I really feel like it wouldn't be too much of a shock to hear my roomie from college saying one morning, "Kelli, wake up or you are going to be late for English Lit!" I usually feel like we are all the same age, have the same interests, same beliefs and political ideas. Same. I know, two words: PollyAnna. But I think Polly could remember her age better than me. My Grandmother just had her 76th birthday. She knew the date and her age just fine. Yes - I KNOW we do not all have the same beliefs and political interests. You know what we do all share? The same 10 ideas for a scrapbook page:) Thanks for sharing. kelli