ideas, ideas, ideas...

I have made it to my second day in a row! woo-hoo!!  I have been brainstorming some great little somethings to add to the new website.  It occurred to me that it may be a wonderful thing to cross pollinate my scrapbooking obsession with my photography site and offer up some handmade goodies to my clients.  I'm working on some projects this week, so I should be able to post some previews soon.  Many of them come from Donna Downey's book Photo Decor which is my favorite book as of late.  Very simple, elegant frames, baby keepsake blocks, and some great clipboard frames to name a few.  I'm really excited about finishing them for myself, so I hope you all will feel the same way when you see them!  If you're crafty, definitely pick up this book.  It's a sampling of some really cool ideas.  My only dissapointment was that it wasn't longer!  I'm always on the lookout for great idea books, inspiration pages, chunky books with tons of projects.  It's like a lens looking into someone else's brain and it just sparks my own to get going and create. 

Another gem I picked up recently was Photo Idea Index by Jim Krause.  It's a quick answer to photo block, something I'm quite familiar with!  Sometimes when your perspective gets stuck in neutral, along comes some cool artist that kicks it back into gear for you.  Vroom Vroom.