An article in the August 2005 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine by Faye Morrow Bell about using 15 minute blocks of time to organize your scrapbooking got me thinking about how being organized would really help me to get more scrapbooking done (and have more fun doing it).
One of the reasons I don’t scrapbook more often is that I don’t have something ready to go. I think about running into my scrapbook room to work on a page or a layout and I realize that it will take the entire time I have available just to get ready to scrapbook.
So, I’m going to follow Faye’s advice and spend 15 minute blocks of time in my scrapbooking room - just getting organized. When I have a few minutes instead of plopping down on the couch to watch another TV show I will head into my room. Here are a couple of the dozens of ideas she shares in the article.
Journal a memory.
Without worrying about what it looks like or even if there is a picture to go along with it, just write down a memory.
Shop.
Go through your inventory and see what you’re running low on. Do you have enough adhesive? Pages? Page protectors? Make a quick list of what you need and with your next 15 minutes jump online and order your necessary supplies.
Unshop.
Go through one supply (card stock, stickers, accents) and get rid of items you know you won’t ever use. I had a giant bunny sticker for years. It got to be a running joke with my scrappin friends when at each yearly weekend crop I STILL had the giant bunny. Finally, I gave it to my daughter and she used it within minutes.
Here are a few more places to get organizing ideas:
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