Organizing for the Way You Scrapbook
For a hobby that's meant to be fun, scrapbooking can sometimes seem like
serious business. Get into it enough and you may feel like you spend
most of your time digging through your supplies for that special piece
of paper or combing through a heap of photos for that birthday party
picture you just knew you "left in here someplace."
The prospect of combing through all your stickers or starting a page
that you know may get stained by your child's dirty hands before you
have a chance to finish may be enough to scare you away from your
project.
If you want to make your scrapbook experience fun again, you have to
devote some of your time to organizing. This necessary requirement isn't
as daunting as it sounds. It can even be part of the fun. If you look at
it in one light, figuring out the best way to store and manage your
supplies and photos uses the same creative brain muscles you flex to
make a scrapbooking page.
Okay, maybe that's stretching it a little, but the point is that
organization isn't as bad as it may sound after you figure out how much
of it you need to do. As you consider the organization method that works
best for you, keep the following factors in mind:
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Space: The amount of space you have to work in makes all the
difference in determining how many supplies you can have on hand and
how often you'll need to replace them.
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Time: Do you scrapbook once a year, once a month, once a week, daily,
or hourly? Knowing your standard frequency goes a long way toward
determining how many supplies you need to buy and how much space you
have to work in.
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Buying habits: The amount of supplies you buy should be determined by
the space you have to work in and the time you have to do it -- not by
those catchy accessories you simply must have.
Each of these factors and other scrapbook organization concerns are
addressed at the Pendaflex Learning Center.
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