After a brilliant weekend that included seeing one of my favourite bands Tegan & Sara in Glasgow and a little jaunt around Loch Lomond where I had fantastic fish and chips in a little place called the Real Food Cafe where you sit at bar stools with big chunky wooden tables (just the right balance of down to earthness and good values such as only using fish from sustainable sources) I'm raring to go on all of my projects this week.

Madeleine has suggested that I turn the recent quick pen and ink drawings I've been doing into postcards and I'm thinking I might just do that. I think greetings cards perhaps, so I need to find somewhere that can print them nicely and then I need to dig out my Writer's and Artist's Yearbook and read that chapter on self publishing and distributing cards. These are the kinds of things I want there to just be a complete set of instructions for. I'm rubbish at stuff like this.

'Well, wouldn't you be sad?' - Pen & ink - © Sharon Whyte 2008

I've been finding lots of things to inspire me recently. I picked up another copy of the brilliant magazine 'Little White Lies' on Saturday that has pretty much sealed the deal for me over whether to get a subscription to it or not. The current issue focuses on filmmakers in Iran and what they have to say about it is really interesting. I love the way they take one film each month and then explore all sorts of issues that surround that film for the first half of the issue and then move onto the rest of the reviews for the second half. I don't think I've ever read a film review magazine cover to cover before.

Amongst the myriad of other things that have been inspiring me lately is...

- Stationery (well nothing new there) - it seems to me that the designs and the quality on offer just keeps getting better and better. I bought this sheet of wrapping paper to frame and put up on the wall.

Wrapping paper from Paperchase

- and photographs taken by friends that have featured on Flickr this week...

Originally uploaded by Dave Sinclair - © Dave Sinclair 2008