Hard work isn't work when it's your passion

I saw that (the title of this post) on twitter yesterday and boy did it resonate with me! I was searching for who to attribute it to (the person who tweeted it was retweeting someone else), and I found this:

I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen. Joseph Campbell 

So maybe that explains why spending most of Saturday at a craft fair trying to sell scrapbooking stuff and talk people up about scrapbooking was so much FUN. Ha!

One of the highlights of the day was a little girl, maybe about eight years old, who was so drawn to my booth. She kept coming back and looking at things. Her mom bought her a little kit of stuff (that I assembled with her) and I gave her a magazine and some extra bling. 

Perhaps the best thing that happened though was meeting a social worker who works with women and children and we talked about how scrapbooking could be used in their therapy and recovery. More to come on that one.

I had hoped to do a couple of pages at the fair, but I only had one table (as opposed to three at the other fair) so I didn't have the space. This was one of the pages I had planned to do:

 

I had been so psyched about doing it (wouldn't you be excited about doing a page with such georgeous photos? This was my niece and her best friend helping me out by posing for me so I could get some photography practice,) that I did it when I got home from the fair. Yes, I was tired, but it was such an easy page, and doing the page was actually very relaxing.

I have no idea who Joseph Campbell (author of the quote above is), but he is definitely on to something!