It's really a kind of scrapbook but not in the "scrapbooking" sense of the word. I've kept one for about 20 years now (well, I've filled two now). They're just ordinary scrapbooks, the sort you buy from a stationers, about A3 size. They're full of pictures I have collected, cut out from magazines, postcards, scraps of wrapping paper, bits from catalogues - anything that I see and think "ooh, that's nice". I call them my happy books because browsing through it makes me feel happy!
Quite often when I'm looking for inspiration I will flick back through my books and something will catch my eye, then I'm off