Don't you hate it when the well of scrappy inspiration dries up? This has been an issue for me over the past few weeks, and although I
want to create a new page, I just can't get the creative gears in my head moving.
Short of chucking my brain in neutral and rolling it down a hill, attempts to jump start my inspiration have been attempted. And failed.
I've wandered through scrapblogs, thumbed through scrapbook magazines, flicked through the stacks of photos all printed out and awaiting a layout... To no avail. My brain is dead. Well, as far as scrapbooking is concerned anyway. (Actually, some might theorise that my brain
is in fact dead, and it's only the electrical impulses from my nerves that keep my limbs moving.)
Though in saying all of this, I did
finally finish a page for Bree's Kindy Portfolio this morning that I have been 'getting around to' for two or so months now. It was a forced effort and in the end I was sticking all the pieces down while I sat on the lounge floor with Bree climbing my shoulders and sliding down my back and Indie wiggling his way on to my lap every other minute. Things get messy in such circumstances. In particular; my handwriting. But, at least it's done...
Anyway, on to other things... Here's a long rambling question:
Do you find yourself printing out photos for several layouts that you want to make at once, then re-delegating them all to the
'actually I can't be bothered with that one right now, I feel like creating a different layout instead' pile? And then printing out entirely new ones??
This is another of my dilemmas. Maybe I need to start buying some normal photo albums, because I have a massive massive load of photos still sitting in their photolab folders and awaiting their scrap pages. Several are of the same photo but in a variety of sizes or with a variety of photoshop enhancement applied to them. It's a Things To Do List that just keeps growing.
'Hmm. I'm not happy with this one as a 6x4 in sepia after all. I might cross-process it and a couple of others from that day, reduce their size and do another multi-photo layout.'
and then, two days later..
'I don't feel like doing this page at all any more. It's sunny today and I feel like creating something with a more summery theme. I have some beach photos printed already, but they're not the right size for what I have in mind. I'll need to print off fresh photos...'
This is less about having the right photo, and more about me stalling because the get up and go has simply got up and left.
Oh well, now that the Kindy portfolio page is off my shoulders, perhaps I'll get on with a new project tonight?
... That is, if I can decide on the right photos... ;)
