The Open Book, Challenge 5: The book of Awesome

This week's challenge is brought to you by Laura.

The Book of Awesome by Neil Pasricha grew out of the author's blog (1000awesomethings.com), begun in June 2008, where he set out to write about one awesome thing every weekday. He began the blog as a way to see something positive and joyful in the midst of a very difficult time in his life, and over time the blog grew to attract a huge following and led to the publication of the book. His "awesome things" are the little joys: finding a pull-through parking spot, waking up and realizing it's Saturday, the smell of crayons, and a favorite old T-shirt. I love this example of thankfulness for ordinary and otherwise unremarkable events and the encouragement to take notice of the everyday bits of joy we all have. I also loved seeing how many of his awesome things made me say, Hey, I didn't know anyone else noticed that! My kids read the book, too, and for the past few months we've continued to point out awesome things to each other--and that's awesome, too.

Challenges:

Use bright colors against a black background.

Try a painted, brushed-look font. A selection of free ones can be found here: http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=604

Scrap your list of awesome things or a single awesome moment.

Scrap about a turning point in your life--perhaps a difficult time that spurred you to make a change, as the author did when he started his blog.

Scrap about enjoying a book together with other people: a book shared with loved ones, a favorite read-aloud with your children or from your own childhood, a book group experience.

 Here's what the team came up with this week:

by Laura:

Credits: Everything by Audrey Neal; fonts vtks animal 2, Steelfish, & DJB Laura.

from Jennifer:

credits: digital paper  Sweet Summertime by Crystal Wilkerson, template- ChrissyW, cardstock - Audrey Neal, font- LeviBrush dafont.com,

from Stefanie:
Credits: fonts, Walkway Bold & Ginga.

To participate, just create any paper-crafted item -- a layout (digital, hybrid, or traditional), a card, an altered item, or home decor item using the challenge above. Post a link to your project in the credits, and make sure to share any thoughts about the novel as well. We'll have a new challenge up on July 26, 2010. Thanks for playing along!

Comments

[Amy]

I'm adding this book to my "to reads" :) Great idea... Here's my layout!
http://www.designhousedigital.com/gallery/member-gallery/p3521-everyday-awesome.html