I’m going through a period of Spring Cleaning because frankly, I need it! When there’s stuff all over the place and it actually impedes your process of working…you know you really must clean up. So now I’m trying to balance this tremendous task with everything else in life as well as my runaway ideas that usually derail any schedule I might have set down for cleaning. Who wants to clean when a fanciful idea pops up and you want to go experiment instead!
I decided to help myself by organizing my runaway ideas into loose notes. I made myself a lightbulb sketch above (feel free to download and use for your personal organization) – I printed it out 6 on a page to make little notecards. Of course, you can just use scraps to collect little sketches or words bubbling inside of you. I’ve put mine in a goodie jar to draw from at a later date. I feel that these types of ideas can often get lost in a big journal or lists, that’s why the loose leaf method is nice. I can save all of them in one place, but pick at random when I’m ready. I also have really crazy ideas at times, so it’s not like planning a painting in my journal. They are things to experiment or one day think more about. I just don’t want to lose or forget about the idea completely and I don’t want to dismiss it just because others might think I’m joking…maybe… 
Happy Spring Cleaning!
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that is such a brilliant idea! I’m using it:)
Glad it can be of use to you!
Fantastic idea, especially about putting the ideas in a jar! And you’re so generous to offer your work for download, not many artist are doing is. THANK YOU!
I do a lot of sketchy stuff, so happy to share if it can help someone. There are many others who share too, I think it’s fabulous! Thanks for stopping by!
Dearest linda, that is such a wonderful idea especially the one with putting ideas in a jar!! I need to do some spring cleaning too. Thank you so much for sharing your idea and download. Have a lovely merry happy day and love to you!
It’s really helping me out…hope you can use this little idea. Have a great week too!
I have so many ideas too- my notebooks are full to bursting- if only we had the time to experiment with them all!!
x Em
Yes, I think sometimes people dismiss their little ideas and it’s not easy to write them down whether they will be realized or not. I vote for saving all those ideas…they can spark so many different avenues of inspiration – and not just for you!
I have them all—journals, lists, notes. I am always running across little notes I jotted down with design ideas {some with sketches, some without} and wondering what in the world I was thinking?? Why would I have ever thought that was such a great idea?? But then sometimes I find something much later that still impresses me as a good possibility even thought I can’t remember when I wrote it down….
Ah, it’s hell to get old.
Hi Pam…I know what you mean when finding and old note and not really understanding what I was thinking…haha!