The Southern Swoop Blog: Inspiration To Amazing

Sometimes I wake up with ideas bleeding out of my brain.

That was a little graphic...Let me do that again.

Sometimes I wake up with ideas bouncing around in my head waiting to jump right out!

Cheessy but better.

But not this morning, complete emptiness in my brain. I feel weird. I mean, I don't even know what to wear today!?

Kadie and I (Robbie's sister- Robbie is my Fiance...If you don't know that...It's a little creepy you're reading this) are going to Grandma Ballentines house to help her clean and do some crafts! This wonderful lady has a whole craft room dedicated to all her creations! She's fantastic and honestly, I'm jealous of her room. Anyways, were going over today and I don't know what to do...

Should I make a pillow? Fix an old dress of mine? make crafty belts? more baby onesies? more headbands? THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS!

Everyone should have a craft room and make something! "but joanna, I don't have an ounce of craftiness in me..blah blah blah" OH nonsense, if you really didn't then you shouldn't be allowed to go out in public. Can you dress yourself? Then you have creativity. Can you do your hair? Then you have creativity. Can you take a shower? THEN YOU HAVE CREATIVITY. Everyone has something that they can give to the creativity world, everyones is different...thats all. Even your mail man.

Use your surroundings, use the world. Look out your window. Look at the trees and skies and birds! Make a pillow out of it, cut fabric into the shape of a flower and sew it at the bottom of your dress...and voila! you automatically have an anthropology dress.

Use the best source in the world, and it's free! Yourself! Take your personality and explode it on different things!

For those of you who already know you can do something amazing, if you're having a brain fart when you want to make something...get inspiration. Go on a walk, take a drive. Sit on your front porch.

Today, I'll look out my window and use it as inspiration for something amazing.