I'm a hoarder of magazines. Real Living, Inside Out, Vogue LIving, Selvedge etc. I even have mags that date back to the 1990s. Honestly I don't know why I can't throw some of these out because some of the designs back then are shocking. Maybe one day they will be stylish and a new wave of crafty/designer types will be inspired.
Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
I have friends who simply rip out what they find inspiring and chuck the rest of the magazine in the bin. They have a little book that is all catergorised to put the int he scraps. I admire this so much, but I just don't have the time or patience to be this anal. I am anal in other ways. I stack all my magazines by the date. Oldest to newest. It works for me and I use these magazines all the time for different reasons.
My husband only complains if we have to move and he has to buy more moving boxes to cater for all my inspiration. He really doesn't get it.
Infact, we are so opposite sometimes. Right now we are wanting to fix up our side fence as it is not aligned properly. This gives us a good excuse to make it look nice and make a garden that doesn't look like a stampede of wild animals has passed through. So he decides to draw up a plan of the new area. He is an engineer so everything is linear and there are little numbers and abbreviations scribbled across the page. From this I am supposed to make a decision about everything so he can get the builder started.
When I ask him what materials he is thinking of using, his answer is "something that will look nice."
How can I possibly leave it at this and hope for the best? So hence a new inspiration board is needed. I've begun cutting up my magazines and using an inpiration board on a regular basis. I really didn't like the idea of destroying the mags at first, but I'm over that now.
Today I made a board for the garden. My husband thinks I'm kooky. But I think it will work. We will meet somewhere in the middle and sometime in the not so distant future we will get that backyard looking better.
