Project: The Inspiration Book
September 2nd, 2009
A while ago I wrote a post about my obsessive listmaking, and Cindy commented and told me how she also likes to cut out pictures from magazines and put them into their own “inspiration book”. I remembered this when I passed by my favourite bookstore the other day, and two minutes later I left the store with a fresh start. You see, I started a project like this sometime in high schoolm but it didn’t turn out very good (I cut out almost everything in the magazine, which means I could have simply kept the magazine as it was), and it had black pages. Maybe it’s because I started reading blogs and realized I can’t stand (visually, at least) blogs with black backgrounds, but I decided I needed something with white pages. Thus begins my newest project (no, I’m not like Lorelai, Cookie, I will finish this one!): to go through all my fashion magazines and be merciless. Whatever survives the process shall be prettily pasted into my new inspiration book (which has a red cover, in tribute to Bridget Jones, naturally). Are Cindy and I slightly crazy, or do you other fashionistas do this, too?
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