Creating my first mood board: a sneak peek

Well, you Planetarians are such a kind-hearted lot, judging from your response to my last post. Your empathy, suggestions and reassurance were a wonderful salve – thankyou. The sun has returned to Hobart so my washing is all dry, I bought Joshua’s school trousers today and we have nearly made it through to payday! I’ll start a new ‘to-do’ list tomorrow. And given today was ‘Magic Monday’ without the pixies, I’ve caught up on some of my BYW lessons. Now while I’m limited in what I can reveal about the course, I just wanted to quickly share with you one of its tasks which I worked on today. Here’s a sneak peek.

This is my first ever mood board. I found the whole process of collating it absolutely enthralling. It’s meant to capture the things I cover, or would like to cover, on my blog.

Now, let’s see how eagle-eyed you are!

You might find:

* A selection of my favourite ribbon, mainly blue and green, and often grosgrain;

* My Lamy fountain pen;

* Swatches of my treasured Liberty fabric gifted to me by a generous fellow blogger;

* Blue;

* Green;

* Baker’s twine;

* My grandmother's buttons I played with as a child;

* My paintbrushes and Cotman watercolour paints;

* Some blue water-washed paper I painted with watercolours;

* Stationery;

* Maps;

* Garlands;

* Butterflies;

* Some of my French and German treasures;

* Travel (unfortunately my passport has expired!);

* Tissue paper rosette made by a dear bloggy friend;

* Letraset alphabet stencil used by my late uncle for his stamp-collecting;

* Washi tape;

* Dictionaries;

* Notebooks; and

* Cards, especially one made by a sweet friend.

Here are a few close-ups.

I treasure this tiny box.

Liberty fabric, blue, butterflies, French, my Nanny’s old buttons – swoon!

What both surprised and struck me was that hardly any of these of my favourite things have been represented on my blog so far. I hope by the end of the course, I'll have worked out how to incorporate all these items I love into my little space in Blogland somehow. I want all you Planetarians to have a much clearer idea of what makes me tick and brings me pleasure. How does that sound?

So, tell me – do any of these things surprise you? Or maybe intrigue you? Maybe you want to know where I bought things! I can see plenty more post topics arising from these photos. I’d love to hear what you think about it. And do any of you create mood boards at home? Do share – let’s allow our creative juices to flow!

This post was rewound on 16 September 2011 at Multiple Mum's Weekend Rewind linky.