Reconstruction of Inspiration

This Inspiration Board took some putting back together I can tell you! If it looks a bit busy- it's because it is! I thought I'd post it's journey because that, as well as all the things stuck to it, was quite helpful in spurring on my previously dormant creative juices! It lies in the corridor in my house, and was looking quite doleful for a few weeks, begging me to help restore it to it's former glory. I did. It took a lot of work, a lot of scrounging for pins that fell behind a large and awkwardly placed basket, a lot of patience when things stubbornly fell off- but it was worth it. The result just screams ideas:

- A special style of skirt I would like to make.
- A font to try and mimic
- An emotion to attempt to express
- Something to write a story about (a train ticket/ joy/ cupcake wrappers)
- Some photography ideas...
- A material to experiment with

So if you haven't one already, I'd grab a pin board from somewhere and start pinning! It helps provide inspiration for the moments you're incredibly stuck. (Besides being a great place to shove something when it looks suspiciously too much like clutter to keep, but too pretty to throw away.:)
Good luck!

Raining raining raining...

RAIN. Water.

It's everywhere right now. I feel like it's begining to enter the very pores of my thoughts, leaving my brain damp and pretty floppy. Well, considering I have just swum many many lengths for a sponsored swim- it's not surprising; but that aside, it does feel as if water has finally begun it's long and meticulously calculated plot to take over the world. And if not the world- then at least Monkton Combe valley. This constant and steady stream of dew, rain, puddles, mist does begin to test your morale after almost 12 days, the lack of sunshine brings up a peculiar mix of arguments, spotty faces and permanently wet or frizzy hair. But if there's one good thing about this rather depressing onslaught- it's that it's got me thinking.

Thinking about how water is lifegiving- and yet we stray from it. We groan that it's "depressing", "too miserable", it's just so dreary, when really... it keeps us alive. We take it for granted, don't we? It's a bit like shaking off our life-jacket because it's uncomfortable to wear- when you're in the middle of an ocean. It reminds me of how we treat our faith sometimes. There's a line in a great song: "these things take time" by Sanctus Real- which says:

"Why am I so afraid of the dark, but I stray from the light?"

We don't like satan, evil, 'sin', we don't like the snatches of horrible fights or cutting gossip, we don't like being stabbed in the back or lied to- yet we so often lie, gossip, do evil, argue. Why do we stray from Jesus when we're so afraid of evil? In John Jesus describes himself as the water of life-

John 4:14
"...but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”So... why do we complain about water when it's lifegiving? Why do we stray from Jesus when he is lifegiving?

Just a question to ask.

With an answer that's all too obvious really... we shouldn't. It's stupid. It's suicidal.

Who knew rain could teach me that much?

:)

Milla

Room 101 and 102

What are the things you absolutely detest? Those little things that, given half the chance, you would lock up in a room forever and quite happily never have to see, or face again. This was the question I was posed with in year 11- for an English Speaking Presentation. Let's get this straight from the begining- I dread English Speaking Presentations. Ask anyone in Monkton Combe and they'll give you a stream of 'funny' (or just plain embarassing!) stories about me mucking up my words.... infront of lots of people. I have a presentation coming up actually- lets hope I don't do it again!
Anyway. Room 101. The room where anything you want can disapear... here's a list of mine:

• Blushes
• Raisins
• Paper-cuts
• Money
• Spots
• Flies
• Sewing Machines that don't work
• Out of tune guitars
• The sound of people chewing
• Sore throats
• COLDNESS
• Exhaustion but not sleep
• Showers that dribble
• Shoes that break in five days
• Gossiping
• Talking during the climax of a movie.... or maybe even the begining. okay all of it!
• Cold tea
• Bumps (Trypophobia! It's a horrible thing.)

Do you have any rational or irrational fears like these? If so, banish them to room 101! Haha, Gina just read that and said it sounded like some sort of 'self help' thing, ha. This may sound like a list of complaints, or a good old moan- and it's not good to do this as we should celebrate the many blessings God keeps providing, even in the face of our perhaps not-so-good actions. And so, I have invented room 102! (Original I know) A room of celebration, where you would put all the lovely things you enjoy in life, for example...

• Tea
• Guitars and Pianos!
• Friendships
• Pen and paper
• Dogs
• Warmth
• Lasagna
• All the musical genius' out there (Switchfoot, Jenny and Tyler etc... :))
• Education- an underrated priveldge in the western world :( but an amazing chance.
• Cameras
• Carnations
• A good book
• Butterflies

Are there any you would add?

Godbless,
Milla

The Honeymoon of my Camera

I got a new camera for my 18th birthday (I'll be posting about it soon no doubt) last thursday! Exciting! So I got a little snap happy, immediately wanting to snap up every last, fresh, vibrant moment I could see within my garden or the views around it. So here's a little stream of pictures to entertain, provoke thought, or make you smile...

A little abstract I know...:)

Sweet little Archie!