In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists.

Having a second person will help you feel safer ‘’and’’ you two can help each other – two sets of eyes are twice as powerful (and twice as quick). Smith] engages you to try and deviate from the norm when it comes to living your life—living consciously, rather than unconsciously strolling through life.The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking, new connections, and new industries. How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Art Life Museum aims to help busy people find a creative outlet in the midst of their routines, rather than cramming it all into special creative times. When I was a sad tween scribbling alone in notebooks I found this book and it changed my life and introduced me to Anaïs Nin and Jorge Luis Borges among others and now I’m working on a creative dissertation! When you’re busy juggling a job, family life, friends, housework and daily jobs it’s easy to forget the simple things – like stopping to listen, paying full attention to what’s going on around you or asking questions about things that interest you.

Best of all, they allowed me to indulge my lifelong passion for collecting – images, thoughts, words, sayings, quotes, lists, books, stationery – anything beautiful! Yesterday I had this urge to go to the park, and I was pretty excited about it, seeing as I had packed everything (camera, a picnic mat, sunscreen and good walking shoes) that would make for a good afternoon at Lake Gardens, one of the biggest park here in Kuala Lumpur (think of it as a Central Park, only much, much smaller). Maybe you are waiting in line at the bank and you tune into the patterns on the floor that you never noticed before.Picking this up today and starting it - - I could have sworn I had read it before - - maybe - - it is the basis for a class on Big Picture Scrapbooking "Everyday Adventures" with Tami Morrison that starts on April 15th.

As a longtime fan of guerrilla artist and illustrator Keri Smith’s Wreck This Box set of interactive journals, part of these 7 favorite activity books for grown-ups, I was delighted to discover her How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum ( public library) — a wonderful compendium of 59 ideas for how to get creatively unstuck by engaging with everyday objects and your surroundings in novel ways. Explora la mayor tienda de eBooks del mundo y empieza a leer hoy mismo en la Web, en tu tablet, en tu teléfono o en tu dispositivo electrónico de lectura.A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused. There is a certain childlike naivety to Smith’s work, which works well with her distinctive illustrative style: titles such as Living Out Loud may strike the reader as twee in places, advocating everything from painting pebbles in the back garden to making paper dolls in the quest to enjoy a creative life to the full.