I knew it!

Thank you for taking the Creativity Test. The results show your brain dominance as being: Left Brain Right Brain 32% 68% You are more right-brained than left-brained. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body. In addition to being known as right-brained, you are also known as a creative thinker who uses feeling and intuition to gather information. You retain this information through the use of images and patterns. You are able to visualize the "whole" picture first, and then work backwards to put the pieces together to create the "whole" picture. Your thought process can appear quite illogical and meandering. The problem-solving techniques that you use involve free association, which is often very innovative and creative. The routes taken to arrive at your conclusions are completely opposite to what a left-brained person would be accustomed. You probably find it easy to express yourself using art, dance, or music. Some occupations usually held by a right-brained person are forest ranger, athlete, beautician, actor/actress, craftsman, and artist. Your complete evaluation follows below: Your left brain/right brain percentage was calculated by combining the individual scores of each half's sub-categories. They are as follows: Your Left Brain Percentages 22% Linear (Your most dominant characteristic) 22% Sequential 20% Verbal 17% Symbolic 17% Logical 14% Reality-based (Your least dominant characteristic) Your Right Brain Percentages 57% Fantasy-oriented (Your most dominant characteristic) 39% Random 37% Concrete 36% Holistic 34% Intuitive 25% Nonverbal (Your least dominant characteristic) What Do These Percentages Mean? Low percentages are common in the Brain Type Test and are not indicative of intelligence. Instead, medium to high scores (30 - 50%) are desireable, as they show an ability to utilize a processing method without an abnormal reliance on it. Special focus should be paid to highly dominant (50% or above) or highly recessive (0 - 30%) methods, as they tend to limit your approach when learning, memorizing, or solving problems. If you have Highly Dominant characteristics, your normal thinking patterns will naturally utilize these methods. Conscious effort is required to recognize the benefits of other techniques. Using multiple forms of information processing is the best way to fully understand complex issues and become a balanced thinker. If you have Highly Recessive characteristics, your normal thinking patterns naturally ignore these methods. You may only consider these under-utilized techniques when "all else fails," or possibly not at all. It is important to recognize the benefits of all of your brain's capabilities in order to become a balanced thinker. Well, its definitely me! Isn't it amazing how God creates us all different, and then makes some of us smart enough to work the rest of us out?! Take the test yourself, any other Right Brainers out there?

Woman of Help

After reading from Elizabeth George this morning, and being challenged to commit to being a helper to my husband and not a hinderance, I went ahead and asked one of the questions that Elizabeth asks her husband everyday.

"What can I do for you today?"

He stopped packing his bag for a moment, frowning, stared at the wall and just as I thought prehaps I'd upset him somehow, he looked up and said...

"I'd like for my wife to get some sleep. It would be good to come home to a rested and less grumpy wife."

Well, that wasn't the reaction I was expecting at all...! God is certainly surprising. Rest is not something I am good at, and with the many issues and dramas happening at work at the moment, I have not been taking care of myself well. I look... well, I look like a zombie! And I feel a bit like one too.

So early to bed tonight (after a dress fitting for my darling friend's wedding).

I wonder how I can honour him tomorrow?

New-Found Stillness

I am learning during a very busy first year of marriage, that there is really no rush. No sense in being busy. It helps no one to be short tempered, stressed and worried. And I forget too many things when I am doing everything at once. Especially at work.

So, I am trying to go a little slower, wake a little earlier, pray, read, think, breathe.

If I'm eating, I'm eating. Walking, I'm walking. Talking on the telephone, without doing anything else. Trying to be less distracted.

And I've noticed its working. I am finishing things, returning phone calls, remembering details, passing them on. Not all the time, but more often.

I have made a quiet time box. I want to be intentional in the time I spend with God and not spend 20 minutes looking for what I need. An old shoe box now contains;
-My Bible
-A notebook for recording things I'm grateful for
-The Power of Praying Through The Bible by Stormie Omartin

-A Woman After God's Own Heart by Elizabeth George

-A small photo album containing photographs of each of the family and friends I pray for each day of the week

-A prayer journal

-The Power of A Praying Wife by Stormie Omartin

-Pens, paper and bookmarks

-A Woman's Book of Prayers

The box is the perfect size and completely portable, depending on when and where I have my quiet time each day. I am aiming to move towards more consistent times each morning, but shift work makes it tricky.

I am amazed how much I can see God changing my heart already, and I think my countenance at work has improved too!

Looking forward to more times with God in the coming weeks and months.

What helps you with your quiet times?

Super Cute Palm Sunday Craft

We have just got back from a weekend down the coast camping. It was our first camping trip together - a very interesting experience as I love camping but my husband is not so keen! We had a great weekend although tired we are gearing up for creche at church tonight.

It is Palm Sunday so we have decided to tell the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem. I found a super cute template and colouring in pages for our youngsters here. There are lots of cute resources. I'm not up for reinventing the wheel so I'm more than happy to 'borrow' someone else's material!

I have cut the palm fronds out myself so the little ones can play with them and attached bbq skewers with tape to make stems.

Getting Crafty

As promised I am holding a Get Organised Week (yes, in Australia we spell it with a s). I'm am going to post some photos of crafty and organisational tricks I am finding helpful being a right brainer.


First up is a beuatiful little craft kit I used to make a memory for my friend's birthday.

I love this idea, and even though I used a kit this time, I think I could replicate this idea myself with a very similar result. I included black and white print outs of special moments as friends - our 21st birthdays and weddings, in the order that they occurred. I am looking forward to creating more of these this year as gifts for my gorgeous girlfriends.

My Closet Success!

Well I finally took on my closet and hopefully I won!

This job has been bugging me for weeks now, as I feel like I can barely move in our "junk room" as it is. Opening the cupboard to see chaos was just making things worse.

The major problem was too many clothes that I just don't wear any more and no real system for keeping things organised.

Here is my five step plan for organising my cupboard.

1. Take out each pile of clothes, sort them but style (I chose to go with style rather than colour - I'm not quite that organised!) at the same time culling items that are damaged, stained, just don't fit (there were a lot of those), and really aren't my colour.
2. When all shelves are empty, survey the piles that are left and pick shelves based on regular use. As an ex-pilates instructor and dance teacher I had piles of exercise wear that I no longer use or use regularly which were stored at a height where I could easily reach them, and pants that I wear everyday to work were up high and out of reach.
3. Refold everything as you go - you'll be glad you did as it looks soooo much better when you are finished.
4. Sort hanging items - I chose style again over length or colour - whatever works for you.
5. I turned an old show rack into a bag and hat storage area, and recently created a ribbon hold-all on the back of a door to store all my hair ribbons. (yes I wear hair ribbons - my husband remembers important dates we had by what colour hair ribbon I had in...).

Ready for a look-see?

My closet part 1 beforeMy closet part 1 after
My closet part 2 before


My closet part 2 after

My hat and bag rack

My ribbon hold-all