Inspiration...

...comes to me from many places;
lately it's been through internet sites and blogs and yesterday it was from a simply, beautifully designed magazine cover!! I had to buy it and then download the pics for my desktop and for the printable bookmarks. It's called 'Notebook'-http://notebookmagazine.com- and it's lovely-quite inspiring and not patronising. Wish I could afford to splash out on the available back copies...Anyways, it'll be a regular purchase for me from now on...roll on the 15th of each month!
I've bought Ali Edwards' 'A Designer's Eye' as well; a major league scrapbooker/guru/artist whose blog I visit regularly www.aliedwards.typepad.com. Her views on scrapping, books, autism seem to hit a real note for me as a scrapper, reader and mother of a boy who, at one point, was considered to be somewhere on the autism spectrum.
Other blogs which I'm addicted to checking out are www.cathyzielske.typepad.com/bits_and_pieces/, www.stacysbigpicture.typepad.com/altogether_too_happy/ and through these ladies am finally allowing myself to believe that what I do "is OK!" I'm not by any means an expert- nor do I have a supportive husband when it comes to scrapbooking!-but the sentiments behind their craft, vision, work and approach is how I often visualize things then find difficult to put into words.
I'm learning that it's ok to be simple, complex, quick or take the time with pages and most of all that I enjoy what I'm doing.
I'm learning that it's ok to have a mixture of stuff going on in my life and not have to try & make sense of it or control/manage it well, just to be grateful for it all and, sometimes, just to 'be'.
It's very liberating and for that, I'm grateful. Thanks to those ladies. "It's all good". I may even give the studio Friday a whirl........oh, if only I'd taken the camera to work, I'd've captured the glistening, shimmering rain on the road with the glorious rainbow peeping through the grey clouds. Dang it, opportunity missed. Just looking for the topic is enabling me to look at things of the everyday in a different way though, so, even if I never post an amazing creation, I have gained a memory of one.
All will be well
All is well.