I know this post is a bit older but had to share. I'm new to cookie decorating and find inspiration everywhere I go. I just realized yesterday how weird people must think I am because I am constantly snapping pictures in stores of things I see, restaurants (including sketches on menus and graphics on the walls), etc. - I mean everywhere. My husband is mortified to be out with me sometimes because of it!
I had to move over 1,000 photos off my cell phone onto a portable hard drive yesterday because I have so many! :-) Just putting that in writing makes me think that maybe I have issues?? :-0
I was in Tuesday Morning yesterday afternoon and saw the most adorable things on some Christmas cards so I took pictures of them. I would go broke if I had to buy them all. One of the sales ladies came up to me and asked if I was OK. LOL...I think they thought I was either a secret shopper, or a thief! I'm quite certain they probably watched me on video after that and couldn't wait till I left.
I guess it's a good thing when I see everything in life as a cookie, huh? Not that I'm good enough to decorate, or make a cookie out of 99% of what I come across, but I see myself doing that one day and so I save the ideas. They say that you have to "live your dream" and I literally dream of being a successful cookie decorator and teacher one day, so I think it makes me feel successful having thousands of "ideas to refer to" to stimulate my cookie decorating brain.
Thankfully my portable hard drive is a terabyte...