Lately I’ve been thinking about the inherent beauty of everyday things.  Every morning I go for a walk with my pooch through the neighborhood. There’s a million things to notice but because we know the area so well I have a tendency to ignore the details. When you have a routine it’s hard to see the little differences that pop up every day unless you tell yourself to look closely. Lately, I’ve been making myself pull out my camera to capture some of these things. I stop and take pictures of anything that strikes me for any reason. Usually they’re mundane things I wouldn’t have normally noticed. Like a cluster of flowering weeds or the tops of grass poking out against the sky.

Then, when I have a moment and I’ll open up my everyday inspiration folder and just doodle. Sometimes it results in things that turn into something “real”, other times nothing interesting comes out of it. But either way it’s a good habit to get into.

Below are a few little doodles (and what inspired them)  that I saw some potential in. They may eventually get refined and turned into real patterns. For now, they’re just fun little doodles.

ps. Aren’t the colors in these photos fun? They turn my boring old reference photos taken on my iPhone into much more interesting and fun photos. I used an app called Plastic Bullet to make them.