Inspiration....

...it comes in many forms.

But you have to be aware of it...open to it. It's all around. It really is.

Some of you have commented on the desk that I painted.

Well, Mr. B was the one who initially saw the potential. He saw the bones....

In my mind, I sort of knew what I wanted it to look like, but the finished product was not what I had originally thought it would be.

I had at first wanted it white. With antiquing.

Then red. With no antiquing.

Then Robin's Egg Blue with dark antiquing..

Then I spotted something I had made with some scrapbook supplies earlier in the year..and when I saw it again, with a new attitude, I saw what the desk needed to be.

This was the piece...

And I like how the finished product turned out...

Inspiration can come from a trip to the Dollar Store. Yeppers. One of my favorite places to get inspiration from. (Or is it "from which to get inspiration" ?)

We decorated Mr. & Mrs. P's entire rehearsal dinner from the Dollar Store - and I swear, it wasn't "tacky" at all. It was lovely. (I had LOTS of help from my daughters and my sisters..)

So on the trip there this week, I spotted these bags and couldn't resist them.

I won't use them in this form - as a bag - but may take them apart and make a cover for a journal, or mat and frame one as an art piece. And they were a dollar....

Sometimes, I get inspiration from looking into the mirror.

No, not at me silly...but at the room, or a painting, or a project that I am working on that's just not right somehow..and I get a different perspective.

(I keep this long skinny mirror on my computer desk so I can watch TV that's behind me ...backwards. Don't want to miss anything and I hate to keep cranking my neck around...)



Oh, then there's the inspiration I get when I see something in the store.



Like the frame I got a few weeks back...

Couldn't decide whether to put Mr. B's grandma in it or my grandma..

back and forth, back and forth...

then a cold wet nose touched my cheek and I knew...I just knew who had to be in the frame...

Lulu, Princess Warrior

(love this photo of her!)

So, tomorrow as you go about your day, look for all the things that God has given us for inspiration...and send up a little prayer of gratitude...

-me