so i really wanted to take this week's episode of homemade happy and focus on inspiration because
finding inspiration and creativity and innovation and thinking of things that are unique to you
and beautiful to you is such a special thing to do but one of my most common questions i actually get
from you guys is where i find inspiration from it's so easy sometimes to look at social media
to look at instagram to look at youtube even and to compare yourself to that and for me at
least it makes me feel inadequate almost every time my hope with my channel and what i create
is to never make people feel like that and that's why homemade happy is so special because i really
wanted to show the actual timeline of how things come together and the fact that it it actually
mostly doesn't look put together because i'm just so slow at getting there one thing i haven't
mentioned before on the interwebs is that i don't actually look at any home decor content creators
and it's for that very reason i don't like to feel inadequate from it i only want to compare myself
to myself and not to other people i sincerely hope my content never makes you feel bad that's
the opposite of my intention ever but i recently watched a master class this interior designer
who's famous she was saying that you should really look at things around you in your location when
you travel look to see what you gravitate towards and what you find beauty in and that might be
clothing like patterns on clothing it might be the type of wood that's used for something it might be
stone that's in a little accent piece find creativity from that and design around that
in this week's episode instead of finding inspiration in the typical way which might
just be going to a store finding an item buying it i wanted to go and just see what am i loving
just because of who i am regardless of whether or not it's trendy i'm gonna come
back and i'm going to create a virtual vibe tray i just want to take this video
focus on creativity and i'm going to go to two local markets once inside and what's outside
and then i'm also going to go to a couple stores just to see what shapes styles colors textures
and so on i like just because on their own they're beautiful let's go
texture's so pretty this
is like natural brick and it's like imperfect as well you can
see the different time periods that this would have been done as well
so nice and when you look at it you can really see like this is the old original
this was redone and then up there it's all painted so show you kind of like different eras as well
okay so we actually just stopped back at home so we could drop off the flowers so they don't die
now i'm going to go to some other stores i'm actually going with my mom she lives in the
next building to me i've never mentioned that but it's the best thing ever i love it so much
so we're gonna go to the thrift store and a couple other places to get some inspiration she probably
won't be on video because she doesn't like when i film her but just know that's what i'm with
this is a very nice like white cement texture the shape of this is so cool and then i also saw this
and i am so drawn to this this is so nice ouch oh my gosh
so one thing that's really interesting here is all the different textures that
they have as examples like this is wavy in texture this is more tube-like in texture
this is more dotted and none of them really speak to me even if they are trendy
so just looking at these jackets too i really like this one for the fabric
specifically just the velvet like corduroy i feel like it looks so pretty in art
i remember at the last store when i said i didn't like any of the shapes
for the ceramics this kind of shape and detail does speak to me
you see that i really like this kind of design but to be fair it helps but i also just like the color
like i like this kind of color it's different it's actually borderline ugly if i say but i love
things like that things are borderline ugly but they're just just on the edge of like super cool
okay that's all for my thrift store inspiration i successfully did not leave with anything
the last place on my list of places to go to get inspiration is actually
a hardware store this is a different hardware store it's not home depot
and it i noticed the last time i was in here i had a really nice selection of really unique
lights like ceiling lights and stuff like that so i wanted to go and see what kind of shapes i would
gravitate towards and what i thought was just interesting in general so let's go ahead and go in
and those are the lights i was talking about
i definitely like this and i also really like well this is going to do a weird thing with the lights
but i do like this one just the shapes in general sorry for the lights i don't know what's happening
okay this is a section i wanted to look down just to see
what do i gravitate towards here and i definitely know i gravitate towards
black and gold but my first preference is actually probably gold which might surprise you
i just had to show you this this is such a pretty terrazzo
but i would just never do this on a counter because it just doesn't have longevity
they've really come a long way in terms of like actually this is real i was gonna say they came
a long way in terms of like laminate but no this one's real look familiar my old bathroom tiles
okay so i'm back and it is now the next day now when i got home i was feeling so inspired that i
went ahead and i created my Milanote mood board now this is actually what i'm going to call a
virtual vibe tray because the vibe tray is what i learned about in the master class that i took this
is the board but i will show you over the screen a little screen grab of it now with the exception of
the one photo that i had absolutely loved in terms of design everything else was what i saw yesterday
and i love how it comes together but first let me tell you a little bit more about Milanote and then
i will go in to fully explain my board Milanote is partnering with me on this video because i
actually use Milanote all the time for every project i work on any big thing that i'm working
on any idea that i have goes to Milanote because i have adhd and it's so hard for me to keep track
of ideas that i have and plans that i have and using Milanote has genuinely been a game changer
for me it's unlike anything else i've ever used before i know a lot of people describe it as like
a virtual whiteboard but for me it's that but on another level because it's the whiteboard but it's
the whiteboard where i can move things around to keep track of things and keep it all organized
perfectly it's just amazing they have that many different types of templates there's mood board
templates which is like the one that i actually started off with this is the mood board for
interior design they have project plans product plans things for graphic designers and so many
different industries as well it's just such a good tool to use so if you want to try Milanote you can
go ahead and click the link in the description box to try it for free i just love Milanote so
that's all i have to say but yeah i will now fully explain my mood board to you so oh maybe i'll just
take over the screen so like i mentioned that one stylized image was an inspiration photo that i had
from months ago i just loved how everything came together i felt it was really very very
artistic and unique and abstract and those are things that are actually very defining about
me and who i've been since i was very young then moving right along we have the white cement now if
you recall that was actually the white cement base that i saw at the decor store underneath
that i have this nice like rust color fabric that's beautifully draped and looks silky that
was actually a skirt from the thrift store that i just love so much color really speaks to me i love
the the silkiness of it i love smooth things so i think that is that's where that comes from
i love the intricacy of the draping beautiful underneath that is that piece of like bakeware
is that even a word but either way that tray that's like that nice amber brownish color that i
said was a borderline ugly but just on that border of like looking beautiful i want to explain that
for a second that's something specific to me i've always liked things that were almost not pretty
but just because the just on the line of beautiful and super cool to give you an example when i went
to prom i picked a dress that i felt was like that like i felt it was like just borderline a
little bit ugly but just like just good enough to be like super modern and cool and nice so
i loved that crystal i looked it up it's actually called selenite a little piece got stuck to
my finger that's okay i love that there's something about like the jagged edges of it
um underneath that was a painting that i saw at the decor store what i liked about that actually
was i love the gold the gold the dark gray slash black and then the white and then finally on the
right we have the marble countertop which i just like marble and i want to keep that in mind and
then also the wood and that wood was a cheese board from the market probably in walnut so
those things are all coming together to just keep in mind for when i'm designing and when
i'm thinking of things i really liked this process i really loved finding inspiration
in fabrics and different things that are completely unrelated you know maybe i saw
that wood cheese board and it's walnut and it's smooth and it's nice and i'm not going to create
a cheese board but maybe i'll create a walnut i don't know console table or something like that
so that's that's the way that it's supposed to work this was an amazingly fun experience because
it just kind of refined the fact that you can find inspiration from yourself and how you are and you
don't need to just look at social media to find inspiration it doesn't need to be what's trendy
go to the thrift store go to antique markets just find what speaks to you and go with it and expand
upon it and apply it in a different way isn't that what creativity and inspiration is all about
what should be whatever you do and however you find inspiration never find it in a way that makes
you compare yourself and make you feel inadequate or bad that's at least the one thing i want you to
take out of this and that it's possible to find inspiration from other things and other ways
that don't make you do that and that make you create and think of things that are more
specific and tailored to you so yeah i'm super happy and this is a really fun experience
and i'm really happy that i got to share it with you and take you along too so i will see you next
week in the next episode of homemade happy i'll give you a little sneak peek to what's coming
i am going to be making my dining table in the next couple videos and i'm really excited about
it as well thank you once again for watching i love you guys and i will see you next week bye