Dream Big or Go Home

Dream boards are a great way to put your dreams on a board.  And while a lot of people use Pinterest to share their hopes, dreams, and recipes, I recommend having a real life board to pin things on.  Something that you have to look at every day, something hanging on your refrigerator or directly across from your toilet.

When I decided to make my dream board I looked at other dream boards for inspiration - I needed to be inspired to really be inspired.  So here are the dreams that shaped my dreams, the boards that gave me reasons to pin.  It sounds like the beginning of a great social media site, but I don't want to exploit my hopes and dreams that way, they're private, and I don't want anyone copying me.

This is a great example of a classic girl dream board.  It encompasses everything that girls need to remember on a daily basis in order to be girls.  From "pretty" to "flirting" to "love" to "sex", this powerful word sequence is juxtaposed with strong imagers of pudding and an engagement ring.  This definitely gave me a good start, but I still needed to do more inspiration research.

This themed weight loss board is most likely the precursor to thinspiration boards, back before people knew about not eating.  The all caps lettering and interspersed exclamation points along with sporty pics of tan, blonde women really keeps the focus of the board on fighting fat and being confident about fighting fat.  Noted.

This dream board spoke to me, personally, because I am trying to become a professional and need to remind myself of my successful career future so that I can get out of bed before 10am two mornings a week for my internship.  I've also taken some marketing classes, so I know that these words are very important to many text book editors.  By this point I was pretty sure that I was inspired.  Time to make my own dream board!

Because I am fairly crafty I mixed both paper and fabric for a dual material effect.  I then cut out images from  calendars and library books (don't worry I work at the library so it's nbd), and put some drawings I found in my boyfriend's backpack on the board.  This board inspires me to see the beauty of each day and to not get too down on myself when I can't finish crossword puzzles even though my grandma can.  It also reminds to dance like no one's watching and only eat meat if it's hunted down in a forest.

I hope that this inspires you to get inspired - sweet dream(s) boarding!