ON STRUGGLING TO FIND INSPIRATION…
Please tell me I’m not the only one that feels in a bit of a funk.
Normally I have no lack of inspiration. In fact, the problem I face is that I’m inspired by too much. There is beauty everywhere – even in the most unlikely of places. Online there is inspiration catapulting around at a million miles a second. I think what I’m suffering from is over saturation.
Lately I don’t want to be online. I’m sort of disenchanted with looking at blogs and scrolling through Pinterest. I want to sit outside with a beautiful magazine and flick through the pages with my fingers. I want to sit with people in real life and talk to them in person rather than on Twitter. I want to bake cookies. I want to be in the sun. I don’t want to click and I don’t want to re-pin. I don’t want to sit in front of a computer screen. I want to devour a magazine, rip out the pages and tape them into a notebook. So that’s what I’ve been doing…
This nostalgia is spreading like wildfire into all aspects of my life. I suddenly want to get a sewing machine so that I can make Jil Sander inspired clutch bags. I also want to get my hands on some old school looking running shoes. This pair by Converse are mega adorable. Anything with a late ’80s/early ’90s vibe is working for me right now… bring on the Spice Girls and resurrect the pog.
LOVE this post! This is exactly how I’ve been feeling for the past 6 months! I’ve actually got a pretty full scrapbook now, got a sewing machine for my birthday, have mastered some new cake recipes and saw a different friend for drinks every night last week.
I’m gradually getting back into my blog now but only because I’ve recently gone freelance so I feel like I’ve got a bit more time for it now so it doesn’t feel like a chore.
So I salute you in your quest for simple pleasures and offline joy! But, I do hope you manage to find enough inspiration to keep blogging as yours is one of my favourites!
x
Oh gosh, i feel you. The irony is is that i probably would’ve never been aquainted with you without the internet…however i would love to meet up with you face to face one day and chat, preferably over a cuppa
life is funny like that eh
It’s summer. You’re only human. Choc Chip please. x
Coming right up! xx
I think that sounds very healthy! As I’m starting the design process for my next collection I’m collecting up stacks of inspiration for myself and you know where I’m looking? Back to highschool. Old pictures of Kiev, old journals, even old artwork I made back in college. Instead of perusing the internet I bought myself a fat 300 page book about Soviet Architecture from 1917-1932 to simmer in… So. Three cheers for you, I say!
Agreed. Tomorrow is no computer day – totally inspired.
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Sew sew sew! I’ve only started learning to sew after seeing Kit’s DIY 50s jacket! I’ve never been into scrapbooking, I guess it’s because chaos is not something my brain can handle so scrapbooking for me means tearing whole pages and binding them together in a folder. I always envy people who can doodle and scrapbook using cutout images, but my brain just doesn’t work that way!! And gosh I crave to be in the sun as well, getting really exhausted with working in the lab and really want to do fun things and breathe fresh air!!
I am so envious of Kit and her DIYs. 2012 should definitely feature a sewing machine… must start saving! xx
I know exactly what you mean, I see so many beautiful things and have so many thing. I don’t know where to start. Every now and then, I just leave my blog. I have a sewing machine, its been sat in the corner of my living room for 4 months, still no idea how to use it
x
Same here sometimes too much inspiration and I am at loss of focus! same as you i also look inspirations in magazines and i mark them!
haha!
thanks for sharing this!
vanessa
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I’m also disenchanted, but I don’t want to read magazines. I want to go out and find beautiful things for myself that have nothing to do with the fashion industry. It’s so hard to keep up…
Screw this, come find inspiration on my blog. I’m always an inspiration.
I love that you have resulted in commenting on your own comments… #spammer
p.s. I always find inspiration on your blog… on days I don’t find drunk photos of you dancing.
I have been away all of last week and had no wi-fi and although it took some getting used to it was quite satisfying that I didn’t really have any way of being contacted and not having switched on my laptop for last few days was also refreshing and totally feel your pain re:inspiration front, I am the same, I find baking helps! XX
Hi Jen! I completely agree – sometimes I look at images, photos, magazines and websites so much that I sometimes forget that the real thing exists! After looking and looking, I often forget about the other senses – smelling, touching, tasting and listening. I often get the same feeling – that there is so much inspiration, I simply become overwhelmed and desensitised. I often have to remind myself that life is bigger than a 13″ screen. Likewise, I’ve been going back to the basics like you mentioned, collaging, cooking and sometimes just leaving the camera at home so that I am forced to be in the moment & not think about documenting, or angles – but just to absorb.
We are life twins. I’m exactly the same way… I say while staring at my 13′ screen. Mwahahha. The irony.