Looking for inspiration in all the right places...

Well, as anyone who has read this blog before knows, I'm an old fashioned girl.(ahem). Yesterday I was feeling the need for inspiration - for indulging in the simple pleasure of looking at great images and ideas. Briefly, I dipped my toe in the edge of the bottomless lake that is Pinterest - but feared I would drown there!
In the end - I just wanted to NOT be at the computer.

So instead, I sat outside in the sunshine and flicked through my wonderful inherited collection of craft books from the '70's and 80's. These Golden Hands Encyclopedia of CRAFTS! were a weekly magazine and I have a few years worth. There are so many ideas and techniques. Some are, frankly, criminal - but others are fantastic. And so modern too.

Yesterday I was looking for ideas for children's necklaces for my market stall , ideas for decorating the new Kinder room (as I'm helping out with that) and just anything that took my fancy. The old craft books also have the added sentimental element. I see so many things that Mum made, so many things I wanted to make as a kid and remember fondly weekend afternoons doing exactly what I did yesterday - sitting in the sunshine and flicking through the Golden Hands Encyclopedia of CRAFTS!
Where do you go for inspiration?