hello, friends! i don’t want to go overboard suggesting what you might like to do while we’re social distancing and staying at home, but i do think there are some things that we can be doing that are fun, good for our soul and will keep us inspired and entertained. i imagine, too, if you’ve got kids at home that it may become even more challenging to carve out time for yourself, when you’re busy caring for them, keeping them safe, and also entertained and educated. but this might be something you can do together. and that’s creating inspirational mood boards or even journals — which is what i do since i don’t have a lot of space like i used to.
regardless of how you choose to create your inspiration, i’ll bet if you’re like me you have stacks and stacks of old magazines wasting away in a pile somewhere, so it’s a great rainy day project of mine to pull images, decorating and fashion ideas and quotes that inspire me from my old magazines and cut and paste them using a glue stick into design journals (see above) — i like to use these sketchbooks because they’re large and have big blank white pages. you can create a wall, a bulletin board or a journal like these of what’s inspiring you, or create a visual mood board of something you’d like to accomplish, a trip you’d like to take, cooking and self-care ideas — the options are pretty endless. and, if you don’t have these tools on hand, there’s always pinterest where you can create a digital mood board. i’ve got tons of public and private boards where i create inspiration for myself every day. here are some my inspirational journals and some other mood board ideas that are inspiring me right now (and I have a pinboard dedicated just to inspiration boards if you’d like to see more!). have fun getting creative!