I’ve been keeping an inspiration notebook(s) for a while now. It started with my stacks and stacks of cute magazines that I couldn’t throw away. So I tore out the pages that I thought were cute (maybe only 5-10 pages from each magazine), put them in clear sleeves, and threw them in a binder. Over the years I have re-organized them into sections. One for home design/decor: Holidays:

Kids:

Weddings:

And just generally cute stuff.

I go through them when I want to look at cute things, am looking for inspiration for my illustration, and trying to get better about glancing at the holiday section BEFORE the upcoming holiday.