Inspiring minds
This week I have been feeling the need for inspiration for the brain. Scrapbooking for the sake of scrapbooking made me want to revisit things that inspired me when I first started crafting and seek out a few new things that have been on my ‘meaning to do’ list for far too long. I’ve been reading a lot. Catching up on course materials for classes I’m taking in the background. Reading my new camera manual, bit by bit. Learning a little something every day. I think it is that same thing that makes us want to spring clean (I am feeling that too) — little signs of life around that urge us to be a slightly better version of ourselves.
Today I was able to split my work load into morning and evening and spent the middle of the day walking around the V&A museum with a friend. I love that you’re allowed to take pictures inside, although the collection at the V&A is so overwhelming at times that it can be hard to know what to photograph. I tried to just pick a few things so I could focus a bit more than coming home with hundreds of shots. It is very much a museum of texture more so than colour (although one particularly amazing example of colour is lit so there is so much light reflecting I couldn’t find a way to catch the colour in an image…so it is resonating in my head a bit instead). Colour is normally what strikes me first in any type of design – be it crafting supplies, photography, advertising or cinema – so to largely take that away and be left with shape and texture seemed to make me think in a different way. I’m totally blabbering now and this is making no sense, right? Forgive me.
Several times we would turn a corner to find ourselves alone in a long, echoing corridor and C would comment ‘This so isn’t a place to visit on your own’. And she was right not only because it is at times a bit too creaky for my liking but also because wandering there with someone else means she will see different things and point out things I would never think about twice.
Also, I think having coffee and catching up on a Wednesday can be quite inspiring in itself.
Can we have a happy chatty, commenty day today (or tomorrow or whenever)? I would love to see or hear about something that is inspiring you lately and making you feel alive. Pardon my ‘spring has sprung and the world is right’ feeling today, but I figure that doesn’t happen every day and I better embrace it when it does. So what have you been reading/watching/listening to/talking about/looking at/eating/otherwise thinking about that is making you feel like there really could be a slightly better version of yourself? Go on, tell us. Pretty please.
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