21 Sep inspire {264/365}

Today isn’t just another day.
Today I’ll create something beautiful.
– unknown

50mm  f/1.4  ISO 100 1/1600 (bad)
flypaper texture, birds from Skeletal Mess

What inspires you ?

For myself, creatively speaking (and if you haven’t figured out within ten minutes of knowing me that with me, it’s ALL about the creating, 24/7, 365 days a year) it seems there isn’t much that doesn’t inspire me.  And since I’ve started this photography project, the inspiration factor has magnified times twenty.  Everywhere I look I see a scene, an idea.  I have to stop and make something out of it.  It’s a compulsion.

And then you add in the design factor and things get crazy.  A sign along the side of the road could have me creating posters in my head, imagining where I might hang a collage in my home. A label at the grocery store might send me off dreaming up some new stamped pillows or a sidetable I’ve been dieing to paint and stamp up like an old crate (I actually have two salvaged tables sitting in my garage, rotting while they wait for me to get around to them).  And picking up a decorating magazine?  Pretty much a  guarantee that I’ll have my entire main floor redesigned and furnished (in my mind) before I get to the last page.  Except I’ll have redesigned some of the furniture because, y’know, I didn’t like the leg or a curve or something silly like that.

Go ahead and add some music to any of the above and all hell breaks loose.

Honestly.  It’s pretty crowded in my head at times.

Crazy.

Words.  Words inspire me the most, I think.  That shot up there (and ummm, this entire post … heh) was inspired by this week’s Simply Hue Creative Challenge ~ Inspire.  That’s where my mind went.  That’s what I saw.

(actually, my mind usually goes in a million different directions, usually quite unattainable directions, before settling down on one single idea.  It’s nuts)

And finally, my girl.  There’s a reason I wanted her in this shot.  She IS my inspiration, plain and simple, at the core of everything I do.  From the very first moment I set eyes on her little face, she’s inspired me, every single day, to be a better person.

A better woman.

For her.

Daughters do that to you :)

So yeah, what inspires you?

Do tell :)

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