Chia!!

Congratulations girl!  Everyone who entered gave me the correct answers, so it was completely random as to who won.  Check your PM box for your gift certificate Chia.. and thanks so much to everyone who played along!  It was lots of fun!

Stacy H here with What Matters Monday.  So what is your style?  I ask myself this often.  There are certain LOs in the gallery that I can look at and know before looking at the name who created them – some people are really good at knowing their style and have created works of art with it.  I am not sure that I have found my style yet – or maybe it is just eclectic and I like everything.  

Well, I have this book.  Now a funny thing is that it is about decorating your home, and I am not really sure why I brought it with me to Australia because we only rent here and I can’t decorate how I would like, but it is coming in handy today.   This book is entitled “Home Rules”by Nate Berkus.  Yep, that cutie and master designer from Oprah.   I actually really love the book and it has a section about finding your style. 

To find your style ask yourself 10 questions (I have changed them a bit to fit for scrap booking):

1. What kind of surroundings make you happy?
2. Do you respond to neat and organized or chock-full of embellishments and extras?
3. Which is your favorite LO?  Which is your least favorite?
4. Where do you feel most at home?  Are you city sleek or country casual?
5. How much time and energy are you willing to spend on your LOs?
6. If you could change one thing what would it be?
7. Do you have a favorite piece of art or furniture that would be a great inspiration?
8. Where would you take your dream vacation?  Can you translate that place and feeling into your LO?
9. How do your pictures inspire you?
10. Does your style translate into the real you?

So ask yourself these questions and see if you have found your style.  Whether your style is modern, eclectic, traditional, formal, casual, rustic, or shabby express yourself in your own style.   Don’t compare your style to others you see in the gallery, be true to yourself.  You after all are the one who created the LO and it is for your posterity not mine or anyone elses that will cherish it.  If you love it then that is all that really matters!

I have a mini challenge for this week.  You won’t get anything out of it – just the satisfaction of completing another LO!  You can do one of two things:  1.)  Create a LO using your newly discovered style – or the style you already know you have.  2.)  Or step outside the box a bit and go into the gallery and look for other styles that you don’t usually incorporate into your LOs.  Once you have found a style you think will be a challenge create a LO and let us see it. 

Here’s mine.  I hardly ever do whimsy in my LOs so I decided to use Misschifis’s 3 little birds kit which has been the daily download for this month here at ScrapMatters – it was perfect and so cute!  I also usually line everything up and have such order to my LOs.  I tried to have things unplanned and found this so hard to do.   

I will start a thread in the forum so we can link up our LOs there.  Can’t wait to see what you come up with!