Just another beautiful day……..

I am sitting here working at my desk and through the window I see deep greens, dark luscious browns and the most beautiful blue sky that you can imagine.

The view from my window is not an amazing one.  I have a lovely view of the faded wooden fence and the cream speckled bricks of the neighbour’s house.  A cream colour bond roof (very typically suburban Australia) and yet when I raise my eyes that little higher, that is when the beauty is revealed. 

We live near a creek which is lined by the most amazingly majestic trees you can find.  A remnant of the days when this part of the coast was covered in dense rainforest, back in the days before the colonisation of Australia and the clearing of land for farming and grazing became common place.  Trees bearing pinecones just waiting to be collected by eager little hands and decorated ready to be hung on the Christmas tree.

This tree line curves around the side of my house and to the back garden where a tall, wide and proud mango tree stands beginning to flower, with the promise of ripe and juicy fruit in the coming months.  Ahh…. any of you who have experienced that first juicy mango of the season knows the feeling.  It also reminds us that Christmas is not that far away.

I sit and continue to gaze at the tall leafy branches that reach up to touch the fresh, clear blue sky and I sigh, a deep sigh.  A lot is said in that one sigh.  Peace, calm, warmth, happiness but above all of these for me inspiration. 

A few years ago I began exploring my creative side.  The side of my personality that had been ignored by the traveller, the partier and then the career woman, the home owner the wife and finally the mother and keeper of all things house!!!

The creative side was finally given an opportunity to shine and shine it did.  At first it was paper craft and then crochet, stitching, oh my goodness the crafts I have dipped my toe to is endless and I have loved every minute.

I never used to appreciate the images, the colours, the textures, the shades and the patterns that were surrounding me each day.  Now I find inspiration everywhere I look.  Some days I am more open to the beauty and inspiration than others but even just by looking out the window, I am inspired by colour and the beauty around me.

Inspiration comes to many in different ways and for me my inspiration comes through colour. The colours from a delicate yet bold flower, the lime green shoots of new grass, the deep brown of the textured bark of the pine trees. I could keep on listing the sources of my inspiration all day.  It is continuous and endless and I love it. 

Colour is the most important feature of a design for me and being inspired by colour is who I am and how I create. 

Today I want you to sit, make a creamy beverage of choice (mine is coffee) and take some time to think about what inspires you.  What makes you draw that sharp breath of pleasure that awwww feeling you get when you see something that is just delightful.  Gather some images, take some photographs, and write some words.  Think about what inspires you, really sit and think about it.  Devote some time to it and I promise you that you will feel better for it and I am pretty sure you will feel the need to be creative in whatever way being creative means to you.

Have a wonderful day and remember to live each day with inspiration and creativity and happiness.

The children can be arguing around me yet when I sit at my little creative space and get busy the rest of the world just slips away.  And that is the beauty of being creative!  Letting the rest of the world just slip away for a short time.

Wow that a bit deep but just felt the need to share.  Have fun being creative!