Comments on: My idea book

By: Linda@bushel and a pickle

Linda@bushel and a pickle — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:19:25 +0000

Like that your idea book is your blog…it is great to see what ideas you collect. Inspires me to fluff and spiffy my own home up. Thnaks for sharing them!

By: erin@{string}

erin@{string} — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:49:24 +0000

my blog is MY idea book, too! and i LOVE yours! my mom sent it to me after finding it via the PW. keep up the good work!

By: Paula

Paula — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:21:17 +0000

I am so grateful to Hyacinth and Pioneer Woman for turning me onto your gorgeous and inspiring blog … LOVE the blog as idea/resource book and can’t wait to keep going deeper into your posts … thanks for doing what you do so well!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:50:35 +0000

I use a huge photo album that I have filled with about 200 pages of sheet protectors! They work perfect to corral all the pages I have torn out of magazines in one place. I just discovered your blog & in fact the BHG article on YOUR home is in my idea book too!!!

By: Janice Ratliff

Janice Ratliff — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:37:17 +0000

I had twenty years worth of “favorite” looks an ideas on a large file basket but never seemed to go through them. Now I take a photo or scan if I see something on line or in a blog….I click on the photo and save to my favorite files!! Houses, baby gift, yards, cool floor plans….and now I have them were I can share with clients. Digital is the way to go! Better than in a file, I can see on my big computer screen!

By: ClassiclyAmber

ClassiclyAmber — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:24:55 +0000

Oooh, thank you so much for sharing my site! I saw the links coming in to my website and had to come right over to check it out. Your blog here is lovely and I’m definitely adding it to my favs so I can keep checking back in. Be blessed~! <3

By: ashlina

ashlina — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:34:57 +0000

i love that art wall with just the frames…wow. great idea

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:30:28 +0000

When I was planning my wedding I tore photos from magazines and glue-sticked (or stapled, or taped) them into a full sized hardback notebook as I found them. But it wasn’t very organized, and they fell out alot from toting it around. But it really helped my family and bridal party see what the big picture was.
I haven’t started a book yet for my house-stuff. But when i see something i like in a magazine now, I actually snap a photo of it and put it on my computer with images I’ve found from online. The filing system isn’t very good. Right now I have “house” “clothing” and “gifts”. Very broad categories. haha. But I started snapping photos because sometimes I would find things in old library books (can’t tear those pages!) or my MIL’s older magazine stash. I always intend to get a better system going….but who knows!

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:29:49 +0000

I have been working on my own style file…complete with paint ideas, pictures (both drawn – badly I might add/not an artist – and pulled out of mags), swatches of fabric, and so on. With two babies, it is hard to find time to sit and pour over an actual book and put it together and look at it, and, Shoot! carry it anywhere! Haha! So right now, I have a binder with a little bit in it, and the rest is in a big vintage picnic basket beside my bed…I just pitch stuff in there as I find it….hopefully to be organized one day…. ;o) I love looking at people’s blogs who have the same eye for things like I like that post inspiring pictures…wherever they come from! There are about four blogs that I read that that is mostly what they post, and they are on my daily read list.

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:24:51 +0000

I THANK you for posting ideas from others…it is inspiring and saves me having to search everywhere for the ideas. My storage system – beautiful storage file boxes – the nice decorative ones- that I keep on a shelf in my closet. They hold folders full of torn out magazine photos – sorted by style and room, but I also have every single issue of Coastal Living magazine since they first began. Too many ideas to file! I keep them inside a large piece of furniture. So I guess I have a “combo” storage system.