Here are the colors I'm using for Liivi's socks from Folk Knitting in Estonia. I'm making mine shorter without the calf shaping but I still think they're going to be pretty nice.

I'm currently reading an interesting book called The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life by choreographer Twyla Tharp. She includes many interesting creativity exercises and questions for your journal (she calls it your creative autobiography).

She includes some interesting info about Mozart. She doesn't believe in "natural" genius and points out that Mozart was schooled by his musician father from an early age. Mozart's hands were deformed by the time he was 28 because of excessive practicing and writing with a quill pen. So although creativity and inspiration may be considered spontaneous or a special gift from the heavens, there is still a lot of hard work, preparation, and routine that goes along with it.