Bring on the Bright Lights | Design Inspiration 5/11/10

Today I was inspired by:

brick walls and wood brushes in Photoshop
torn tape
the color gray (which is becoming my new favorite color)
Alfred's rain-soaked blanket (a nice dark navy color)
Pam on The Office
Over-exposed sunlight photos
My dad's leftover crabcakes (an appropriate food to be made by a crabby but lovable man)
The miniature swamp off my porch
Regi's white mitten
Transparent PNGs
PSD to WordPress 
"Solace" by Scott Joplin (which was coincidently the ending song to Parenthood tonight - very weird if you ask me)

so what else.
Don't forget to put a LOT of yourself into everything you do. Even if it's adding cheesy dropshadows or not capitalizing the first letters of your sentences. Or mirror imaging everything like Verizon. Or making everything look like a Coca-Cola commercial. No, I'm not being sarcastic. 


take a step back in order to look forward.
It's difficult to instruct people how to do something you think about very deeply and frequently. Perhaps not everyone thinks this, but I found myself at a loss for words while instructing someone riding my horse. This is not normal because: 
a.) I usually talk way too much, and 
b.) I love talking about horse-related anything at all times.


So you'd think I'd be spewing words all over the place, but I couldn't form a sentence that gave any special insight someone else couldn't give. Callista was doing just fine and receives first-rate guidance from our trainer, Sue Moessner, all the time, but I felt like I should have had something more insightful to say about my own animal whom I've spent hours and hours of time training and communicating with. Yeah his canter is funky going to the left and he acts like a little brat sometimes, but I was impressed (and always am) at his grace and presence. It was nice to see him move instead of being on him and fidgeting with my leg or reins or whatever. 

There are a million bay Thoroughbreds out there, I know, but I am just as in love with mine as the first time I saw him. 

Ok, I'll shut up now and go to bed.