Smashed Advice: True Nobility

It's the last day of my week long Smashed Advice series. I'm happy to finally share these pages with you and hope I've inspired you in some way. 

Day 5: True nobility

Smash Book: True Nobility

"True nobility is not about being better than anyone else: 

It is about being better than you used to be."

Dr. Wayne Dyer is one of my favorite authors and this quote is from The Power of Intention. I try to live my life according to these words. I avoid competition with others and focus on self-improvement.

Can you name one thing you would like to improve about yourself? Or your scrapbooking? ~Danielle

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Mysterious

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Smashed Advice: Learn Something New

Old habits got you down? Feel better by learning new things...

Day 4: Learn something new

Smash Book: Learn Something New

"Youth is lost when you stop wanting to learn."

Quote by yours truly and words of wisdom I try to live by daily.

How can you apply this to your crafty life? Is there a new technique you've been dying to try? ~Danielle

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Mysterious

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Smashed Advice: Do What You Love

We're onto the third day of my Smashed Advice series and now, it's more personal. Have a look...

Day 3: Do what you love

Smash Book: Do What You Love

"Hush the excuses. Do what you love. Work hard at it."

My own advice to myself and I have to constantly remind myself of this. Can you relate? ~Danielle

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Smashed Advice: Quiet

All things are connected. We covered that yesterday. Today, we focus on the importance of quiet time.

Day 2: Quiet

Smash Book: Quiet

"Empty your mind of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while The self watches their return."

Those are only a few lines I quoted from Lao Tzu and a great reminder to stop and simply be.

How do you make time for quiet moments? Do you wish you had more of them? ~Danielle

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Smashed Advice: All Things Are Connected

Catching up. That is what this week's blog series is all about. For five days, I will be sharing the Smash Book pages I created last summer during Lain Ehmann's Your Story Matters (YSM) class. (Yes, I'm about eight months late!)

My Smash Book is dedicated to my daughters and will be packed full of advice and other important tidbits. The pages you'll see this week feature an assortment of photos, embellishments and paper from my stash.  Many of these items have been overlooked...or waiting for the perfect scrapbook page. Sometimes, you just have to let go and tell a story.

Day 1: All things are connected

Smash Book: All Things Are Connected

 

The quote is by Chief Seattle and one that is meaningful to our future:

"All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth."

How do you feel about the quote above? Do you think it can relate to scrapbooking? ~Danielle

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12 Favorite Children's Books to Read Aloud

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read. ~Marilyn Jager Adams

12 Favorite Children's Books to Read Aloud

For August's Take Twelve, I wanted to capture the images of some of my favorite children's books. These twelve books have playful illustrations and most importantly, they are all enjoyable to read. I've read them aloud to both my children over the past several years and the books have wear and tear to prove it.

In no particular order, here are my top twelve favorite children's books to read aloud:

1. Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and illustrated by Jane Chapman

2. Night, Night, Baby by Mandy Ross and illustrated by Kate Merritt

3. The Way I Feel by Janan Cain

4. If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond

5. Where's My Teddy? by Jez Alborough

6. Teeny, Tiny Mouse by Laura Leuck and illustrated by Pat Schories

7. Would You Like to Play Hide & Seek in This Book with Lovable, Furry Old Grover? by Jon Stone and illustrated by Mike Smollin

8. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle

9. Bing: Yuk! by Ted Dewan

10. Sweet Dreams, Mimi by Julie Aigner-Clark and illustrated by Nadeem Zaidi

11. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd

12. Moo in the Morning by Barbara Maitland and illustrated by Andrew Kulman

What's your favorite book to read aloud? ~Danielle

This year's Take Twelve posts:

January

February

March

April

May

June
July

Also see: Tips for nurturing reading in young children (written by me)

Quote source: Reading Rockets

10 nature-loving quotes for your scrapbooks

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, 

and live with her too little. ~Oscar Wilde

A bird does not sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. ~Ancient Chinese proverb

Whatever befalls the earth

befalls the sons and daughters of the earth.

We did not weave the web of life;

We are merely a strand in it.

Whatever we do to the web,

we do to ourselves. ~Chief Seattle

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. ~Thornton Wilder

I have a seashell collection; maybe you've seen it? 

I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. ~Steven Wright

Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence

Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a West as distant and as fair as that into which the sun goes down. ~Henry David Thoreau

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. ~Willa Cather

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have the things about us. ~Iris Murdoch

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, 

wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; 

there's really no such thing as bad weather, 

only different kinds of good weather.~John Ruskin

Layout Supplies: DCWV recycled paper (The Green Stack), ribbon, adhesive, pen.

Related post:  We can change how we scrapbook (so we don't look like this in the future)