Art Every Day Interview

The lovely Paula interviewed me for Art Every Day Month on her blog which has featured some amazingly creative and inspiring people this month. I am both flattered and honoured to have been asked and featured You can see the article HERE which features on my favourite layouts I have created this year with Websters Pages.

Hanging out on Instagram

Anyone else hanging out on Instagram? I love see snapshots of everyday life over there and the little square pics of food, crafting, family, health all sorts really do inspire and you can find some lovely people too.

Here are a few of my favourites

Healthy eating - Starting_out_fresh - lots of ideas for fresh and healthy food

Scrapbook Manufacturer Simple Stories - lots of ideas on using their products

Scrapbook Manufacturer Websters Pages - hard to miss out on new releases!

Scrapbook Manufacturer - Crate Paper - just make me want to craft!

I have popped a link up here to follow me on Instagram and all of the above plus a bunch of other crafters can be found in my following list.

Inspiration on every corner

Helloooo blog readers! 

I have been a busy little beaver again (indeed when I am ever NOT busy) with my walking training resumed (6 days a week) and twice a week in the gym doing weights and strength training combined with clean eating 6 days out of 7. I am determined to shape up and shift the very last of my weight and having been a plateau for the last six months something needed to change. The last two weeks have gone very well and I reached my happy place walking in the rain tonight, reminding myself no matter what that the time spent along walking is VERY therapeutic and I fell wonderful after.

It means that other than my crop each month and my ATDML design work I have scrapped very little - and I think another contributing factor to this was a messy crop room. So over the weekend I had clean out - phase 1 and sorted a of couple of bags of recycling and put together a few kits needing just the photos printing off. 

I also did a bit of research looking for new inspiration to kick start layouts. Sketches have always been a good starting point for me, and I love the Shimelle starting point layouts too such as this one. I also have found however than I am inspired visually by book covers, album covers, posters, adverts etc. My theory behind this is because there is usually a small army of creative people behind such images who have studied hard to mix elemnts and their arrangement together such that they capture us, draw us in - appeal to our structured selves or quirky selves, or inspire happiness in their use of colour. Whatever it is it works for me and so I thought I would share such images here. This weekend I am planning on creating a layout inspired by this image.. fancy joining in? Let me know with a comment below if you do!

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