I find myself returning again and again to danny gregory's weblog Everyday Matters. It makes me chuckle in the most unladylike fashion, and, even worse, muse for 15 minutes and think.
I get all too comfortable with a theme, techniques that I know work, colors I like, using them over and over. "Like" is fine, but at some point, my "likes" become walls. How comfy and safe! It's time to break a few of my Gestalts - those patterns of perceiving that have become so automatic that I really don't see creatively at all.
Everyday Matters nudges me gently to get on with it. I haven't discovered all the fabulous fabrics, threads, colors of the world yet. Yesterday, after reading February 22 - "Counting Blessings", I went on a small journey of discovery to hardware and craft shop, and came home with a fistful of new toys! Pencils that change color, interesting bits of paper & materials to actually start that experimental ideas journel I've been going to start for years.