I don't think this is a weird approach. I think it's quite a good approach. I probably should do something like that. Most of my visualization tends to take place inside my head...probably because I'm too lazy to do the cutting out stuff.

Hmmm...I think I shall post further about this on my lj, as I seem to be writing a longer post than I intended to. But, just for the record. I don't think it's weird.