You are stuck in the doctors office waiting for them to call you back. Sure they charge you an arm and a leg for their time but disregard yours. Don’t waste this chance to find some blogging inspiration. You are stuck in a room with a great tool at your fingertips: magazines.

A magazine can be filled with 100s of ideas for you and your blog, even if it’s on a completely different subject. You can use magazines to find great color schemes, learn more about layouts, find out about what people are wanting to learn, and best of all find great headlines and post ideas!

If you have never tried using a magazine for inspiration. Grab a magazine, a pen and paper or I like me your phone or tablet. (Don’t have a magazine check out magazine covers on Amazon.com.)

You are going to start creating headline formulas and build a list of post ideas.

Use Eye Catching Keywords

Original Headline: Have a Stress Free Summer (Good Housekeeping)

Basically Stress Free is your keywords here. So your formula will be Have a Stress Free ________. When I write my ideas down on my tablet if I don’t have an idea instantly I will leave blanks.

My Examples:

• Blogging twist: Have a Stress Free Editorial Calendar
• Kids twist: Have a Stress Free Play Date
• Weight loss twist: Have a Stress Free Date Night on a Diet

Create a List Formula

Original Headling: 285 No-Fail Ideas to Scrapbook (Creative Keepsakes)

Quickly create your formula: # No-Fail Ideas to ________. I don’t actually add the numbers until I start brainstorming and come up with how many items I will have in my list.

My Examples:

• Blogging twist: 10 No-Fail Ideas to Blog Posts
• Weight loss twist: 5 No-Fail Ideas to Get Your Exercise
• Social media twist: 8 No-Fail Ways to get Followers

Great Phrases

See how quickly and easily you can start building ideas and creating great eye catching headlines? The best part of this is you can do this in a few minutes or for a half an hour. It’s quick to pick up and put down.

What’s your favorite way to find blogging inspiration? Have you used a magazine for inspiration before?

This is one of my middle of the night inspirations. I have been wanting to blog about one of the goals I had last year. I was hit with inspiration on what I wanted the photo to be. So here is just a hint to this upcoming blog post.

Join Project 52: Self Portraits

Lynda (from Daily Window) and I are not going to be putting up the linky anymore, but still want to invite you to participate in this project with us. I hope you will join us!

If you want to use the Project 52 badge feel free and grab it and use it on your post. You don’t have to do every week with us you can post just once even and you don’t have to follow the weekly theme either. We just hope that you will join us for some fun.

This is the challenge take a photo of yourself!

Every sunday I share with you some of my favorite posts from my week of surfing.

If you would like to join in it’s not that hard at all:

1. Pick anywhere from 3-10 of your favorite posts that you read this week. Link them up in your post.

2. Link to Pepper Scraps with this button:

<a href="http://pepperscraps.com/category/meme/sss/"> <img title="Super Surfing Sunday" src="http://PepperScraps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/SSS_125.jpg" alt="Super Surfing Sunday" width="125" height="125" />

3. Leave the link to your post in the comments. (If I get enough people involved I will add a Linky Tool.)

And here is my list this week:

• 10 reasons readers don’t leave comments – Liz is so wonderful at making you laugh, but also giving you something to learn as well!
• A complete guide to finding and using incredible flickr images – Great way to make sure you always have a good photo for your post.
• How to start (or start over) building your personal brand – I’m all about branding, my goal with Uniquehorn Designs is to help women learn to brand themselves!
• The art of getting things wrong – “Laugh at your humanity.” Can I add: Everyday!
• Mt top 10 Worst Ideas to make money – Or if you like you can laugh at someone elses humanity!! LOL Got to love this!!
• 43 Web Design Mistakes You should Avoid – Ah an article after my own heart.

Are you from #31DBBB? What was your favorite article?

Not from #31DBBB? Well I still want to hear about your favorite post this week!

I decided to step back and just try and do some blog reading and I found this at one of my new favorite blogs:

And then I realized I have been looking for the wrong kind of inspiration tonight. What an amazing video.

My Cardboard Testimony:

Struggled Having a Baby for 6 years

Zane was born 4/9/2007