inspirations

Where do you get inspired? Me - I have always had a weakness for magazines and catalogues. Pretty ones. I used to keep them. I would look thru the J Crew one in the evening after putting the kids down. It is like the Sharper Image Cat. I am not gonna buy anything from them...but I like to look. About 5 months ago I took my pretty magazines and catalogues and cut the day lights out of them. Tore, chopped and ripped them up. There were too many of them with like 4 pretty pages out of 78. I started this little, messy notebook. Look - I never even took the price tag off. Some things I rip out are just fun colors I never would have thought to put together. Some are a neat designs. Some are just things I like to look at. I have also started sketching my lo's before i do them. ROUGH sketches. One of the pages above has the sketches I made on a car ride (I was not driving) for the tattoo lo I posted a few weeks back. Another page has just a list of things from the 80's I jotted down for the Patricia's CJ. There reasons I like doing this: 1. it helps me to remember 2. it helps me to get rid of the magazines 3. I like to post the inspiration with a lo so I can say - NO, I was lifting this design here....not you. Sounds silly - but there has been SO much Pub talk lately about scrap lifting...I am getting paranoid. I did this lo earlier. A lift of Elsecake's idea to use 10 things about me that are secret - ish. I totally lifted the design from Pottery Barn Teen. I have seen Rebecca Sower do the fun writing swirl. And Stacey Kingman has a really cool one in her Words Worth Repeating CJ. But at the moment of making the page - I was looking at and thinking of the PBTeen page. Anyway - I just enjoy adding stuff to this little book. I can not believe that it doesn't drive me crazy to have it so messy. Most of my inspiration comes from the home and clothing mags. Oh - and billboards and trucks that drive by. How about you? kelli