Place: My Office

Poison: Long Black

Favourite Things: This video.

My cousin nick sent me this video and it completely cracked me up. In less than 60 days I will be going to Bangkok, where this video is taken from to spend time with people who live like this everyday.

My next book will be written in reflection upon the experience.

You have to watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYXU9BOw4xM

BRILLIANT

A

Place: My Office

Poison: Long Black

Favourite Things: Stick on wall deco’s

A friend of mine just sent me this link and I have brought three of the candleabra’s for our cafe wall, they are amazing!

These wall stickers are amazing, and such a quick, cheap, funky option to spritzing up a wall for an event.

check them out.

A

Place: My office

Poison: Diet Coke

Favourite Things: new website Amy Butler. AMAZING

In the them of my latest writing adventure, my plan is to have a non first hand, or all home made christmas this year.

So with my schedule, its going to be well planned.

I have this idea to make funky cushions, shaped like strange looking animals for my young nearest and dearest and along this line I found this collection of free patterns that is amazing.

For the sewers amoung you, and even if your not.

check this site out.

http://www.amybutlerdesign.com/products/free_patterns.php

Amps

Place: Auditorium

Poison: Diet Coke

Favourite Things: Richard Curtis

So going back to the topic that never was, the movie ‘The girl in the cafe’. A movie that challenges on the area of relational weirdness, love and making poverty history.

What inspired me the most, is the dialouge between two very random individuals, and the beauty the create together in relationship.

It so speaks loudly to this amazing quote…

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

This movie is all about this.

So what is stopping you from blossoming.

Go get this movie, you’ll be inspired.

Amps

Place: auditorium

Poison; Flat white

Favourite Things: Richard Curtis

Following on from yesterday, I hurriedly rang Planet rentals in Mt Lawley, desperate to watch the film written by Richard Curtis called ‘the girl in the cafe’.

It was so random. Random in a good sense not a bad one. I found myself so uncomfortable, but it was so necessary. Particularily in the area of love and also in the area of our response to making poverty history.

Some of you who have read this blog, for a while will see a strong theme, standing out, which to mel, relates straight back to creative inspiration. Because out of nothing, thats when you truly see the creative power of an almightly God.

Its easy to come up with fresh, new and innovative ideas when you are sitting in a cafe, lactated by caffine and placated by cool cafe sounds.

But creativity that rises from the ashes of brokenness are those ideas that will challenge and change the world.

Why can’t we come up with creative ideas or ways to make poverty history.

So back to my initial plot for this blog. Richard Curtis, what a legend! He is a writer, he is background, he seems quite unassuming and shy, yet he is making a world of difference. Writer of movies such as ‘ Nottinghill’, ‘Love Actually’, ‘Four weddings and a funeral’, need I say more. Oh and yes the writer of a small comedy movement called ‘Mr Bean.’

Side note: saying of Mr Bean, Rowan Aitkinson said to him about comedy…’If the people in Egypt don’t think its funny, then its not!’

Anyways, then his list of creative inspirations go on to include, the motivation and inspiration behind the Make poverty history movement, also the creator of red nose day…

Need I say more.

He said in the interview yesterday on creativity ‘If you have a ghost of an idea, write it down.’ also ‘Creativity, don’t be so romantic about it!’

Maybe I might talk about the movie girl in the cafe tommorrow.

Am being random, but just trying to get something on a page, that for me is a lifelong pursuit of understanding.

ahhhhh.

A