Earlier in the year I took a trip to New York and visited Anthropologie for the first time. Oh, how I wish that store would open up in Australia! I spied these amazing hooks and decided to have a stab at making my own coat rack. I’d been looking for a suitable one for our home for a while, but struggled to find anything decent.

You can buy some of the same hooks here, here, here, and here (and yes, they do ship to Australia… hoorah). I visited my local Hardware store and found a suitable piece of timber in the scraps section. The kind Hardware man cut the timber to the desired length of 1.5 metres. I painted with a bottom coat and then two coats of Dulux Pale Grey.

I planned out the order of the hooks and measured out how far apart the hooks needed to be, drilled in the hooks and mounted on the wall.

And tooooda!!! Here it is. What do you think?

Dear Diary,

Today I found out I’m a Scanner.

What is a Scanner? you may ask.

Well, according to  Barbara Sher’s book “Refuse To Choose! A Revolutionary Program For Doing Everything You Love”, A Scanner’s “world is like a big candy store full of fascinating opportunities, and all they want is to reach out and stuff their pockets.”Sher asks if the following statements apply  to you:

“I can never stick to anything”

“I know I should focus on one thing, but which one?”

“I lose interest in things I thought would interest me forever”

“I keep going off on another tangent”

“I get bored as soon as I know how to do something”

“I can’t stand to do anything twice”

“I keep changing my mind about what I want to do but end up doing nothing”

“I work at low-paying jobs because there’s nothing I’m willing to commit to”

“I won’t choose a career path as it may be the wrong one”

“I think everyone is put on this earth to do something; everyone but me, that is”

“I can’t pay attention unless I’m doing many things at once”

“I pull away from what I’m doing because I’m afraid I’ll miss something better”

“I’m too busy, but when I do find time I can’t remember what I want to do”

“I’ll never be an expert in anything. I feel like I’m always in a survey class”

Although not all of the above apply to me, I do stick to lots of things but for me I cannot understand how people ever have time on their hands or complain of boredom. All I want to do in life is to cram as many interests and hobbies in as I can. Sher’s book encourages Scanners not to feel guilty about having multiple interests and gives Scanners like me confidence to start using their creative energy in a positive fulfilling manner. I look forward to sharing with you many of life’s interesting elements and hope you enjoy reading my blog.

Happy 2012 Readers!!

source: martha stewart