inspired

Inspiration comes when it comes.  I've learned that if I don't seize the inspiration when it strikes that I will lose it.  I'm mostly speaking of creative inspiration but I would say this applies to spiritual and other forms of inspiration.  Sometimes that means dropping what I'm doing to act on it.  That's exactly what I did tonight.  I was trying to tackle our messy kitchen when I felt the urge to go my room and pull out my collection of blank canvases that have been waiting to painted so they can fill our home with art.  Soon I found myself with a bed full of laid out canvases and I did it! I finally figured out the perfect grouping of canvases, and what I'll put on them, for our huge blank wall in the kitchen.  I've been stewing for months about what I should put on that wall.  Every day it stares and me and I feel frustrated that it's still blank. Now I'm just excited to get started filling those canvases with images and quotes so our kitchen can have a little more of "us" in it.  More life, color and inspiration.  Being a homemaker, especially a decorator hasn't been a super easy thing for me.  I feel like I've come a long way over the years but I struggle.  It's not that I don't like doing it, it just doesn't come naturally to me and I wish it did. Pintrest certainly helps in figuring out what I want though.

Ever since we got home from our vacation I've been in a cleaning and decorating zone.  It all started because we stayed at my Mom and Dad's house and my Aunt Jamie's house who both have beautifully decorated homes.  I feel like we're still getting our apartment "put together".  I want to be "house proud" like they say on the Nate Berkus show! I'm tired of the so-so decorating job I've done.  There are so many half done things around our apartment.  I'm ready to tackle all the projects! This year I will get a home for every thing we own.  I will get us organized and finish decorating.  I'll put up curtains in our room and the office, buy lamps for the living room side tables, paint all the things to be painted that I've been putting off and get Kart to build us a new kitchen table and a bookcase (for our room). I want our home to be organized, functional, beautiful, and feel like "us"! 2012 will be a year of finishing! 

I love inspiration.  I love it when I act on it and something wonderful comes of it.  It always makes me feel grateful to my Heavenly Father who is aware of my needs and is helping me blossom and grow on a daily basis when I allow Him to guide me, even in the smallest and seemingly insignificant parts of my life. I'm grateful.  

(ps- more Christmas posts to come...I just needed to share some thoughts tonight.)