Living on the Wild side!

Ok. I have two things to show you today. One is my inspiration board photo for this coming week (I've missed a few as my creativity was nowhere to be found) and the other is what I did this morning that was just a little on the crazy side! But you know what? You only live once!

First, check out this gorgeous scene I photographed today! I drove past this tree this past Saturday and had to go back up this morning to get the shot. With the light just streaming through the leaves, it looked like heaven on earth! The pictures don't due it justice. I'm lucky I got the shot because I had to park along a busy road and wait for the perfect minute to snap it with no cars in the scene! It also completely inspired me to do next weeks inspiration board for you.

"Golden Glory"
B.E. Interiors Photography

"Golden GloryII"
B.E. Interiors Photography

"Golden GloryIII"
B.E. Interiors Photography

The next thing I did was go from being blonde w/natural red low-lights to RED! Gads! Now, truth be told, I have a lot of red in my hair naturally, but I have down played the red and highlighted the blonde most of my life. I've felt like a change lately so I decided to enhance my natural color (which has gotten darker after having children). I bought a box of light auburn hair color and THOUGHT it was going to be a light reddish brown. WRONG! It's a very natural looking...RED!!! As I was drying it, I kept staring at it thinking that somehow it was going to lighten as it dried, but it didn't. The funny thing is, though, after the shock wore off, I realized I REALLY like it! Who knew? I've always suspected if I would just go for it, I would, but now I know. Little guy didn't get red hair from nowhere. There's a lot of it in my family, so now he just looks legit! Wait until the hubby comes home and sees what I did:) This ought to be fun. (wink, wink!)

"Oh, Looocy! You got some 'splaining to do!"

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I told you it was RED!

I think I like this new do (now that I've picked my mouth up off the floor)!

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Inspiration Monday #4

"Autumn Gold"
B.E. Interiors Photography

Fall is finally here in full swing where I am. How about 'round your neck o' the woods? The maple tree out front is starting to turn, and beautiful bright red leaves are falling all over the driveway. I marvel at the perfect beauty of them each time I walk out the door.

All that beautiful scenery has really gotten me interested in a specific color for this fall...pumpkin orange! I don't know why, but that color more than any other is speaking to me right now. A beautiful rich gold, caramel orange...not bright. Something along the lines of these two oranges. I pulled them from House Beautiful's website that are two of their recommended oranges.

Ace Yuma 

California Paints Pumpkin 16

Since I'm in the mood for a little orange/gold, I started hunting through my photos and found this one that has wonderful shades of golds, creams, and topazy oranges. What a great jumping off point for my inspiration board for the week! I think I'll create an imaginary entry/foyer based off this.

So, what comes to mind when I see this photo besides color? Here's my brainstorming list that gave me direction for the pieces to create the mood board:

1. fall leaves
2. barn wood
3. leather jackets & boots
4. baskets
5. pumpkins
6. rustic
7. sparkle
8. grass
9. crystal
10. gold
11. geometric leaf pattern
12. green
13. glass beads
14. box pleats
15. rich deep brown
16. dirt
17. creams
18. orange
19. walking sticks
20. hiking
21. cozy
22. light
23. firewood
24. soft, fuzzy blankets

Using those as my guide, here's what I pulled together all based off the photo I shared at the beginning, "Autumn Gold":

Inspiration Mood Board #4 

There you go. Another one to take and run with. What do you think of when you look at all God's beautiful fall colors?

Inspiration Board #2

My board using my photograph "Kiawah Starfish 1"  in the center as my inspiration.
For details on each image, go to Pinterest and check out the board there. All sources are listed there.

After some playing around with Pinterest, I'm pretty sure I can't just download a mood board created to the blog. So, I got out Illustrator and made my own. It took a little while, but now I've got the method down for the future. I was so tired last week when I posted my Inspiration Board #2, that I did not even copy and paste to share with you ....hoping that most of you can get onto Pinterest or would.

I decided I'd remake the board and post it today for you to see what  comes into my head with one of my inspiration photos just in case you don't use Pinterest . Use it as a building block for yourself or to simply get the creative juices flowing. If you really look at it, you'll see what it is about each item on the board that made it appropriate based on the inspiration photo used. Enjoy!