Creation "Out of Nothing"

There are problems with thinking of God creating ex nihilo, or 'out of nothing'. For 'nothing' is used as a substantive in that sentence or statement, when in reality it is a 'negative quantifier'. One way to think of God creating 'out of nothing' is to say that it is not the case that there is anything other than God out of which God created. With this understanding in view, we can see that in fact God does create 'out of something'...Himself. God creates out of God's self. This makes a lot of sense to me, and is line with a Trinitarian view of God, I think.