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Lets Not Make it Difficult

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 Personally, creating in my junk journal can sometimes overwhelm me. In fact, I USE TO get so overwhelmed I would walk away from it for a while. A loooong while. The thing is I really am passionate about being creative with all those little pieces or big pieces of paper, so for me to walk away and forget the love of crafting frustrates me even more. What I learned is that when we are playing art in our backrooms or basements, we have to reflect back to art time in grade school. If your class did not have art time, basically we were given a box of broken chewed up crayons and some crappy paper (which I love now) and told to draw a picture or just play until we came up with something. We weren't graded on what we created, we just needed to create something. And we did not judge each others work, as a matter of fact we usually were able to pin it up on a board outside the classroom in the hall for everyone to see. We had fun and we did not limit or put borders on our creativity! This ...