Imperfect Inspiration

04/30/2026

Alright my pals, the time has come for the cold hard reality - I'm just too sparkly for the planner world and my time is better spent in my weird neurospicy art cave here in Des Moines, Iowa.

Imperfect Inspiration has been virtual only since last year but is completely closed and no longer in operation. She had a good haul and did a lot a really fu***ng cool things. But the speed that much magic whipped up caught up with my brain and body and I just cannot move at that speed any more. I fried my whole system and I'll pay for that the rest of my life. So time to slow down and focus on the things in front of me. I still have a lot of debt ahead to pay but I'm slowly absorbing that into my new adventure.

Not a day goes by that I'm not entirely grateful for the magic of Imperfect Inspiration and what it did in my life. The lives I changed because I got emails almost daily about the difference it made. And that magic will live on forever in all of the files you guys have access to. Share them. All. Freely. Forever. Free license to give to whomever needs it :)

But it's time for me to grow my community and art and bedlam in real life...more away from the internet and trying to do as much as I can locally and with reused thrifted stuff and working to impact the community I live in and work my way out.

I truly hope you guys get to come visit me some day and see this sensory wonderland I've built. Please go visit Glitter Factory DSM on FB and Insta - follow my bedlam there! This account will be completely inactive and no longer monitored from today forward.

Speaking of working my way out...I'll be adding new LGBTQIA+ crafty millenial liberal unhinged weirdo merch (plus some thowbacks!), stickers, cards, and neurodivergent bedlam but I'm ALSO launching a brand new build your own fidget bar and a reusable junk journal keeper. Plus craft kits. Ohhhhhh the craft kits. So go shop. And keep checking back. This rebuild has been wiiiiiiiild but finally getting to tackle some retail and merch stuff and I'm stoked to get to sell some of my own art to you guys!!

I'm just saying. It's about to get even weirder. How could we do anything but accidentally name it after Leslie Knope's favorite strip club. Duh. (funny story I didn't watch it until AFTER I named the factory and um...well obviously we kept it)

You were my inspiration to finally figure out who I am under all the masking. Now you get to find out. Get excited. 😘

XOXO,
Britney

04/23/2026

🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

04/16/2026

03/29/2026

Meet Haley Moss, Florida’s First Openly Autistic Attorney Who Is Redefining What the Law Looks Like

When Haley Moss passed the Florida Bar exam, she made history. But to Haley, that wasn’t the point.

Diagnosed with autism as a child, Moss was told a career in law might not be realistic. She became Florida’s first openly autistic licensed attorney anyway, and has spent her career making sure others know that neurodivergent people belong in every room.

Moss is now an author, speaker, and advocate whose work reaches far beyond the courtroom. She speaks openly about navigating professional environments as an autistic adult, and the unique strengths autistic thinking brings to complex, detail-intensive work.

Representation in law doesn’t just matter for the lawyers. It matters for every autistic person who will ever need one.

She didn’t break the barrier to prove a point. She broke it because she had every right to.

03/14/2026

Ahem

03/04/2026

Ope

02/13/2026

Would I explain to him how he could do it better next time? Honestly, probably.

02/07/2026

Reminder ❤️

01/31/2026

Pro-tip: if you have an autistic partner this is also likely their love language.

Weird confession: If you’ve ever dated me or been super close pals, I guarantee I had a solid hyperfixation period over a shared music love and memorized many many lyrics and songs.

That’s been my forever playlist during weird life times. It’s the quilt/encyclopedia of my weird world of music loves over the years. Because of you. ❤️

Miss most of you 😘

We're drowning in options and starving for depth.

New playlist every week. New podcast every commute. New book before you finished the last one. Always sampling, never staying.

That's how you stay surface level at everything.

Try the opposite. Pick one musician and listen to nothing else for 30 days. Same albums. Same songs. Over and over.

Something weird happens around week three. You start hearing things that weren't there before. The background vocal you missed. The production choice that suddenly makes sense. The lyric that hits different on the forty-seventh listen.

The song didn't change. Your attention did.

This applies to everything. Books. Skills. People. Ideas.

First pass gives you the outline. Repetition gives you the texture. Most people never get to texture because they're already onto the next thing.

Depth isn't about finding better inputs. It's about staying with the same input long enough to actually see it.

Stop browsing. Start boring yourself with one thing until it becomes interesting in ways you couldn't have predicted.

That's where mastery lives.

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