This blog is my idea book.  I have tried tearing out pages and organizing in folders.  Just a mess and I have found when I tear out pages they get lost.  So then I went to the “keep all good magazines and keep them intact” route which really stacks up, literally.  How do you keep track of ideas that inspire from magazines and blogs?

I still love the idea of fab resource books.  Even this amazing woman (pictured below in all her fab-ness) has them, she mentioned here, on the Skirted Roundtable..I imagine they are filled with elaborate drawings and beautifully scripted notes, not just tattered magazine pages and sketches on old birthday napkins! Maybe one day I will have the time to work on really great resource books!

Until then my version is much less sophisticated but very functional.  It is my blog.  If I post an image here of something fab, like this house I do NOT want to forget, then I have it here where I can find it..no more digging through my piles. Soooooo to those who might feel critical when you visit my blog or others and you think “all they post is photos of others’ work and never their own ideas”  well maybe that is because the function of a blog for many is a place to not only diary your life and work but also a place to highlight ideas and things that inspire.  Just a way of keeping track and we share with you in case you might be interested too… It is a great resource for readers and clients to be able to go to a “living with kids” or “paints” category and see several posts and images from myself as well as ideas from around the blogosphere. 

Like these frames from Classically Amber..I could post and repost images of frames I have hung empty in my home and others but I would much rather show this..fresh and new to me..something I just discovered ,via a friend! I love how tight this arrangement is hung on the wall!

So now it is your turn, how do you keep track of your ideas and clippings, whether in real life on online???