What inspires you?

There are a lot of situations, peoples and things that inspire me all the time.

I decided earlier this week to make a list of 52 things that inspires me right now:

• 1. A tidy desk, a clean home - totally inspire me to mess it up again
• 2. My mother
• 3. All the blogs I visit
• 4. Books by Kaffe Fassett
• 5. Clothes Paper Scissors magazine
• 6. Roses in all colours and forms
• 7. Some shops where they have lots of beautiful things that can be bought and brought home - but that also inspire me to try to make things by myself (one example is Indiska)
• 8. Children
• 9. Nature
• 10. Bringing my camera on walks and visits
• 11. New notebooks, and white paper of all kinds that screams out to used right now
• 12. Studio Friday prompts, this week it’s about inspiration, so check out what inspires others too!
• 13. Going into a flea market or a thrift store hunting for new fun stuff to use, like fabric, yarn, frames, boxes, paper ephemera and so on. This is a real turn on for me.
• 14. Lynne Perrella’s book Art journals and sketchbooks
• 15. Museums and art exhibits that has a big verity of different things (like Västerbottens museum)
• 16. Books and magazines on interior design with beautiful pictures of peoples homes
• 17. Fabric patterns
• 18. Words, poetry and smart quotes
• 19. Meditation
• 20. The past - I want to remember and keep as much as I can, so I try to document all the time both in words, pictures, letters and films
• 21. New black pens to draw with
• 22. Frida Kahlo (the movie, her strength and also this childrens book that I have)
• 23. Pictures (postcards, magazine clipps, photos, newspaper)
• 24. The cook book Det vegetariska köket by Lotta Brinck
• 25. Traci Bunkers Visual Journal pages (I keep coming back to look at these all the time)
• 26. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron (book)
• 27. The word doodles that I learned from Tiff and love to do myself, specially since I bought a book for my own doodles now (for boring classes
• 28. Gone with the wind by Margaret Michell (the book of course), inspired my not-yet-finished litterature essay
• 29. Ota Ha-Yam by Amoz Oz (I read it in Swedish where it is called Samma hav, in English The Same sea)
• 30. When my fiancé tells me that he is impressed with what I’ve done/created (because I know he never says this without meaning it)
• 31. Tonari no Totoro (anime movie)
• 32. Traveling to new places where there is so much to explore (new markets, shops, museums, woods, streets, landscape, people, food), inspiration to express while traveling or to bring home as memories to discover further
• 33. Used toys and dolls
• 34. Lisa Vollrath
• 35. Books by Tracy Chevalier
• 36. Melanie’s magic art, site and specially her and her mothers shop, and also Tine’s energy, birds and beautiful shop
• 37. People like Violette and Teesha that seams to have such a artfull life at home and everywhere. I’m going this way with my life to I think. Eventually.
• 38. Hemslöjden (swedish magazine about swedish crafts) + their store
• 39. The few Somerset Studio magazines that I’ve had a chance to read
• 40. Going to the library and picking reading material at random in my favorite shelfs
• 41. Finding a new craft that I need to know everything about and then searching for that information
• 42. Some of my friends just sparkle creative energy and when we talk about projects it daubs easy on me
• 43. Listening to interesting information while creating. Like CraftPod, CraftSanity and I should be writing and now also Lisa’s Podcast and straight from China CandyCast! Lots of amazing inspiration there.
• 44. Getting feedback on what I write and do
• 45. Getting up from computor/book/project and fetching fresh coffee
• 46. Looking at my own photos, in my albums and at flickr
• 47. Writing lists of what to do today
• 48. Journaling & blogging
• 49. Starting to make a new art doll and following where she wants to go
• 50. Finding tutorials online that I think I can use
• 51. Favourit books of youth and childhood
• 52. Mr Yamaguchi and his book 52 Projects (plus the website) where he in the end of the book lists 52 resources for inspiration that he likes and then challange the reader to do the same. Wich I did today!

Phu!

Making a long list takes some time. But here we are. It really makes you look around and think, I love that about lists.

So why don’t you make a list too? It’s good for you. Consider yourself challanged, it a project for you - and please post bellow so I can find your list (shorter or longer) and get even more inspiration.

Happy weekend!