Hi Charmaine,
Good to meet you.
It is so nice to come here and know that I can be myself.
I always loved science at school but that side of me wrestled with
the creative side, and it was hard to combine the subjects that I
really wanted to do. Now in my 50-s, I reckon I ought to be free to
explore it all without too much restraint, haha. Papercreting is
right up my street, so to speak.
I think there are a lot of arty scientists on this board, and that
they we are rule-breakers, apt to think outside the box,
particularly when the box represents "safe" or "tried and tested". I
wonder if most important discoveries or inventions come from that
sort of rebellion against the status quo.
Have to be grateful, obviously, of people who are also blessed with
the discipline needed to fulfill deadlines and complete projects: I
realize I am not a loner in that respect. But at the same time I
like to think that I am a bit of a problem solver: tell me something
can't be done and I will do my best to come up with the solution. So
perhaps I have my place in long-term projects when they happen to
run into difficulties.
Now look what you did, I am all fired up! On with the welly shoes
and out into the garden! I have some shredded shrub prunings and a
nice big bag of shredded paper just asking to be messed with.
Thanks for the great encouragement!
Love, Mary (Whinnie)
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Dirtcheapbuilder-Charmaine
<tms@...> wrote:
>
> Wow- a sister at heart! I too have test blocks, plaster buckets,
> samples and sample boards, etc all over. I was too busy trying to
run
> my business to actually finish much ( OK I DID finish few
projects at
> least)..
>
> I KNOW I am a dilettante--and seriously not normal! but I had
so
> much fun playing, that I now know NOT to start a big project since
I
> will not finish it. I consider myself a " scientist" who is
> experimenting to help others further their causes. There is a
place
> for all us non-conformists...but we all seem to have NORMAL
neighbors (
> or family members) who wonder what is wrong with us! hahaha
>
> this group seems to have fun while learning and sharing...other
groups
> are becoming more "PC" ( not portland cement) each day.. any
comments
> that don't fit the true"eco lipservice" are soundly shot down...
you
> can't even say "Wait- there is a place for all materials" before
being
> told we HAVE to use only alt stuff or we are killing the
> planet....please.
>
> I hope this group can maintain that sense of pioneer, experimental
> spirit!
>
> Charmaine
>
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>
> Whinnie said: I have a number of unfinished projects
myself I
> confess, but they were
> a lot of fun while my energy was up. I sort of think that
nothing is
> really wasted even with ideas, so even if I have had to abandon
> something it is only because I learned a better way in the
process
> and started again.
> I am beginning to refer to other people as "normal people"
because
> my ideas and lifestyle are definitely not normal. But who wants
> normal anyway? Normal is what people do when they can't be
bothered
> to consider how much negative impact they are having on others'
> lives and environments, instead of planning the positive impact
they
> COULD have. This is how come I got interested in papercrete in
the
> first place, and cob.
>
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