The winner is #9- Danielle. Congratulations!!! Look out for an email from me, and we’ll handle the details.

Thanks to everyone who participated! I appreciate all your ideas so much that next time I might just hold a contest.

Here are some of your favorite sources of inspiration:

• family… especially babies and kiddos
• blogs and websites (see my sidebar for a rather incomplete but still very inspirational list of blogs)
• nature: the ocean, the mountains, changing seasons, flowers
• vintage & thrifty things
• caffeine (YES!!!) & chocolate (YES, YES, YES!!!)
• Christmas
• fighting a worthy battle (Indeed.)
• music!
• beautiful but practical things (Shouldn’t all practical things be beautiful too? I so wish this was true!)
• gardening (Maybe next year… or this Fall)
• toile & beautiful papers
• Proverbs 31 (Couldn’t agree more.) and God’s creation (Yup.)

And some of your suggestions:

• airplanes (Perfect for The Boy!)
• books (Perhaps making them? Love this idea.)
• birds (Always. I can’t get enough of these.)
• fairy tales & traditional Celtic fairy book style art (I’ve gotta look into this.)
• vintage renaissance
• kitchen towels embroidered with vegetables or vintage “Days of the week” type embroidery — Monday wash day, Tuesday string beans, etc.
• embroidery of old children’s book illustrations
• hedgehogs, snapdragons, aprons, spinning wheels, goats (love the randomness of this suggestion!)

A veritable wealth of lovely inspiration. Thanks for sharing your ideas, everyone!

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