Inspiration Books

Subject: Inspiration Books Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:26 pm

I was browsing through blogs today and one of my favorite mentioned a post I must have missed from awhile ago. Posy talks about inspiration books. I have one in the form of a 3 ring binder where I put pics I've torn from magazines into sleeves, but her idea is so much more fun - something right out of Simple Abundance!

Though you'd like to see:
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Subject: Re: Inspiration Books Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:48 pm

I have read that exact post as well! Her ideas are so lovely!

I have a stack a few inches high of all the pages that I have ripped out from various magazines that I want to make an inspirational book with. I have yet to find a binder or blank book to put all of my treasures in.

I do like her idea of covering up a blank book with a well loved fabric. I know that Borders always have blank books for sale usually placed outside thier doors. I just have to find my fabric.

Subject: Re: Inspiration Books Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:25 pm

This isn't as pretty as having a fabric-covered book of inspiring scraps - but I illicitly click 'copy image' on web-pages (it's only for my own imagination, never for anything commercial nor would I make an exact copy of anyone else's designs; more a form of bookmarking), and then copy and paste the images into a word document with a note of the URL, so I have all my vintage images in one Word doc.

I'm already in imminent danger of Death By Toppled Paper so I try to avoid magazines or newspaper adding more paper to the house!

laura

Subject: Re: Inspiration Books Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:54 am

I LOVE posy's inspiration books. I keep telling myself I'm going to start one... maybe it should be a March goal?

Subject: Re: Inspiration Books Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:01 pm

What a fab idea, I am definately going to make an inspiration book, and also a gratitude journal, just have to find a pretty notebook and binder first. I used to write in my diary(notebooks) all of the time, but since the house move I just havnt found the time. I actually have boxes full of the diaries Ive wrote, which I plan on displaying in my own little room.

Subject: Re: Inspiration Books Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:18 pm

I´m going through my huge stack of interior magazines, keeping only the best. However, I like to keep them in binders, not glueing them into books. I have some butt ugly binders, but am going to sew some fabric covers, hoping they will look lovely, not shabby.