We are working on beginning to clean up our digital photos, in 15 minute increments of time this month! Don’t keep putting it off, thinking you will do it later. It is never too late to start! I’ve created a FaceBook Group where there will be prompts to help get you started. Some people will be using FOREVER, and others will not. Either way, I would love to help you get started! Invite a friend to join you!
Once your photos are organized and you can find your favorites, it makes it so easy to use them to create something! I hope you will join us.
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Most of us have seen the many little funny quotes about crafty messes, and they ring true for so many of us! I am guilty of running to my craft room, quickly getting something done, and running right back out with the completed item. Did you notice I didn’t say anything about cleaning up? Gasp! I didn’t do anything. I have even been guilty of going back in to find I didn’t even get something closed like it should have been, returning to find it totally ruined! I just hate it when that happens, and I have been trying to be much more careful about that!
Last year, my husband gave up his home office for me. Yes, I’m spoiled! But he is so neat and tidy, and easily keeps my previous area clean! Now I can just close the door and he doesn’t have to look at it! I have worked to get everything organized, but sometimes it’s hard to keep it that way.
My friend, Margareta Carlsson from Organize Your Stash has started a fantastic list of prompts for getting these artsy supplies organized. She is sending out daily prompts to spend just 15 minutes each day working on getting your things in order! That’s right, JUST 15 minutes! Image how many hours that equals in a year. You do the math, I don’t like to! I’m sure it’s more than I usually would spend!
What will your area look like after a year? Hurry on over to her site and sign up to get your marching orders each day! www.organizeyourstash.com
Have you accumulated more arts and crafts supplies for your favorite hobby than you know what to do with? Would you like to find some ways to use them?
Whether you like to scrapbook, stamp, make cards, art journal, create mixed media, or any number of other hobbies, you probably have a stash of items that you are not really using on a regular basis. This picture depicts a very tidy space, but many of us don’t have things this organized (and you know who you are)! The fact remains, if you’re not using your stash of goodies, they are just taking up valuable real estate in your space! If you are like most hobby enthusiasts, there is no telling how much money you have invested in these items.
This isn’t about making you feel guilty for not utilizing all that great stuff. Instead, it’s about creating a plan to use it up! We often get in a rut and use the same products over and over, and the rest just begin to collect dust. In part, Artful Adventures is about helping you find new ways to use stuff you already have on hand! We are going to dig in and find what you have, and help you find some ways to use it up!
As we get ready to do that, I would urge you to get started by finding out what you have. Put like with like so that you begin to see what you really have. Once you begin to do that, you’ll know what you have and it will be so much easier to move forward. That way, as we talk about ways to use different products, you’ll know if you have it on hand, or if it looks like something that could work with others things you have, you won’t end up having duplicates.
I’ll confess right now that my arts and crafts items have finally made their way into a single area, and it so much more efficient! However, I had been carrying items all over the house and using them when the mood hit me. I am afraid that method has cost me several black markers I was using on some lettering projects. Ouch. I still hope they turn up before I need them and end up replacing any or all of them!
Not only are we going to talk about ways to use products, but we’ll talk about using them to cross from one thing to another: (come on say it with me) whether you want to use it in scrapbooking, stamping, card making, mixed media or art journaling!
What kinds of products do you have that you just aren’t using these days? Leave a comment and let’s see what we can do!
