I is for ... Ideas
Or lack thereof. I'm running dangerously low on thoughts for this whole 'encyclopedia of me' thingummy. Panic - I have nothing for J K L M N or O and my P idea is a pretty weak one. Help! Perhaps I can do a 'Johnny singing the alphabet song' trick and treat elemenopee as a single letter? No? Well, I'd better come up with a plan 'b' fast then.
Usually when I find myself stuck for inspiration, I leaf through one of my cuttings books. I started making them when we were house hunting for our first place. It allowed me to let off steam by doing some virtual nesting, so they are chock full of decorating ideas:
A few storage and display ideas, some of which have made it onto my walls in reality:
And the odd seasonal celebration idea:
It's such fun looking back at over 10 years worth of inspiration. How my tastes have changed (although perhaps scarily some have hardly shifted at all). How my pre-occupations suddenly started to include gardening and kids rooms.
How do you collect yours?
Usually when I find myself stuck for inspiration, I leaf through one of my cuttings books. I started making them when we were house hunting for our first place. It allowed me to let off steam by doing some virtual nesting, so they are chock full of decorating ideas:
A few storage and display ideas, some of which have made it onto my walls in reality:
And the odd seasonal celebration idea:
It's such fun looking back at over 10 years worth of inspiration. How my tastes have changed (although perhaps scarily some have hardly shifted at all). How my pre-occupations suddenly started to include gardening and kids rooms.
How do you collect yours?
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Usually at night, when the kids are all asleep...DH away, then I get out all the cuttings from weeks, maybe months of collecting and stick to my hearts content...aided and abetted by a glass of white and a big bag of M+Ms!!
(One more try: http://bigbucketgirl.typepad.com/bigbucketgirl/2007/06/getting-rid-of-.html
I love your cuttings book,just what I want to do. I've got a book ready, just need to sit and paste in my pictures I've snipped out over the months.
J for joke?
I love cutting and sticking inspiring images into an old book that I got from the charity shopI save it for a little treat for me every now and then.I think I'll do some this weekend!Maybe I'll post some pictures next week?
It is a great way of elevating magazine reading to the category of "work related".
I am always worried that my tastes seem not to have changed at all in 10 years - though there are more clear calm photos of white interiors in there than there were pre-kids.
J
Kim
I is for ideas, inspiration and imagination, which you plenty of just by looking at your blog.
P.s. just read the E post to husband and we had a little giggle - I think it would make a great t-shirt - something like "my mummy might be yummy but she isn't for eating"!
Funnily enough, I was just about to ditch all my old magazines and boxes full of clippings in the spirit of decluttering. Now you've made me think I ought to save the things I like now even if only to be able to look back in horror in ten year's time ...