Aug 20
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!
August 20th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Kristena, that was a fun post/giveaway you had. So many sources of inspiration and neat ideas came together.
Congratulations to Danielle! : )
And what is it that makes French Knots so charming?
Have a great day!
August 20th, 2008 at 9:54 am
So many great suggestions…I’m going to have to bookmark this and refer back to it the next time I need some inspiration!