Hello and happy Friday! What crafty things are people working on this weekend?
I'm planning to keep going through and narrowing down which of the thousands of photos I want to use for a massive physical travel scrapbook I'm working on. 5 countries down, 16 to go! Very fun to reminisce as we go through them.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Fun topic!
I just wrapped up a page from this past November. I'm also working on sewing a skirt.
I worked on some 2020 Project Life pages. I'm down to being 10 weeks behind with that album, so I'm starting to make a small dent in my backlog. I can't wait to be done.
Fun!! November feels like just yesterday, somehow....
hahaha. That's very exciting you're making a skirt, are you hand or machine sewing it?
Hey progress is progress, no matter how small woot woot! Hope it went well
and you had fun!
It's a new weekend here... I know this post is old, but I would really like to get in and get my craft space organised this weekend!
@Jo I love it!!! I feel like I always get new ideas when I'm organizing and find things I maybe forgot I had haha. Enjoy!! Hope it's satisfying and fun!
That's what I am hoping, I haven't quite had a chance to start yet, but I will be tomorrow!
I'm going to start working on the June blog train, as well as my nails (a little self-care).
I've been steadily working the last few weeks on both organizing my craft space and organizing the rest of my photos. (I'm literally about 20 years behind, so it's not a small project.)
But right now I think I might play around with some June blog train ideas.
Love this! I really need to research some better storage ideas for my physical stuff, there is a lot.. and I want to make sure I have my laptop set up that I can just go and sit down for 20 mins... but right now the table in the craft room is covered in stuff and I almost feel overwhlemed!
I worked on some travelers notebook pages!
Oh wow, theyre cool Marisa. Found you on insta
@Christina I love it!! Can't wait to see the contributions!
@Jo oh my gosh I know that feeling!!! This past year I officially turned the guest room into a craft room since we haven't been hosting guests.... I was able to make a nice L-shaped countertop supported by shelves underneath. Have been on the hunt for clearance storage bins ever since. Just about all my supplies have a home now. Though I'm kicking myself for not getting more bins from the Dollar Tree when they had these amazing ones in stock a few months ago hahaha. Whoops! Good luck to you and happy craft organizing!
I love this format!! Design, print, cut, enjoy! Thanks for making it so easy for all of us to be creative
@Rachel that must be such a whirlwind of memories! I'm curious what your process is for organizing photos? I am doing the same with a huge amount of travel photos. I'm always fascinated to learn about how others organize their stuff. Good luck with the physical and digital organizing!
@Jeanne I ditched the color palette I was working on. I just wasn't feeling it, ya know? Now I'm trying to decide on a different palette. LOL
Oh, isn't it the worst when you can't get more of the bins you want!!! That is what I did. Got rid of the guest room to make a craft room. we got my son a double bed so when people come to stay, he gets kicked out to his sisters floor or our bedroom (he's neary 4!) and I have this craft space. I'm using an old kitchen table and then a camping table in an L shape to test that out too. I can't manage to find the perfect layout yet!
Jeanne, I'm kind of working it out now. lol I have a mix of developed-film photos, printed digital photos, and digital photos that haven't been printed, so I was rather awash in confusion of what had and hadn't been printed, what I had, etc. lol
I made a checklist by month of the digital ones so I have a master list where I can check off what has or hasn't been printed, so I'm not reprinting the same stuff and missing other stuff.
And then with the physical photos, I broke them down by year -- and I did the same with all the other "stuff" (concert tickets, parts from dance costumes, etc.) That way, even if it's not organized any further, I can know that if I pull that year out to work on, I'm not missing things that are unprinted or in some other part of the house or whatever. I know that's everything.
And when I have a chance, within a year, I'm putting them by event or subject matter into separate page protectors. The "everyday" stuff of my kids (that isn't really tied to an event) is, for now, just getting a categorization like, "the kids, early 2014" and "the kids, late 2014." (My thinking is that I'm going to want to keep these roughly together in the scrapbooks because what they were doing at age 2 and what they were doing at age 12 is pretty different, but they don't need to be separated to individual days, necessarily.)
The goal is to be able to go in and grab a set of pictures and memorabilia and be able to just scrap it, without having to wonder if everything is there, even if I'm not necessarily scrapbooking them in order.
That seems like a great system Rachel, I have recently started printing my photos by month for this year, and just sending them out... because it is so hard to go back later.. so you're doing great!
It helps that in the interim I'd found a better method of organizing the digitals. I blog, and I have a LOT of photos that are for the blog. That used to mean that printing photos involved weeding through all of those. Now when I organize my photos, I pull out the blog ones and store them separately, which makes it a lot easier when I'm looking for pictures in either category (personal or blog-related). I don't have to dig through one to get to the other.
@Rachel, wow that's a daunting and tedious process, but oh my gosh will the results be rewarding! That makes a lot of sense to keep the professional/blog pics separate (that you mentioned in your other post). I feel like organizing by year is a good way to go. May the force be with you!!
Out of curiosity, where do you get your photos printed? I've been using Walgreens with mixed results (mostly really dark photos hahaha)
I think having a process to store your photos is really important, but it is hard to find the perfect system that works for you.
It can definitely be tricky figuring out what works for you. Now if I could only organize my office space as effectively... lol
@Jeanne, I usually get my photos printed at Shutterfly. Mostly because it's easiest, to be honest. Overall, though, I've been pretty happy with the color accuracy. I had photos printed somewhere else in the past -- York, I think -- and they applied some kind of "color adjustment" by default that gave some screwy results.
I wish that I could organise my office supplies efficiently too hahaha!! I am definitely not showing any efficiency.
Finishing up my portion of the June blog train. I noticed a ton of new posts in the designer challenge area, so I'll probably take a crack at those too.
I am taking a break from digital designing this weekend and am building myself some mini storage cubes to hold my stamp ink pads and rubber stamps. The drawer I store them in now sticks and I'm sick of fighting with it all the time haha. Using these jenga tower blocks from Dollar Tree to make the cubes. I'm almost finished gluing up the pieces, then on to assembly. Thank you wood glue and your super strength! Have a great weekend everyone!!
@Jeanne - how did you go building?
@Jeanne: If you're in the States, I used MPix for printing photos. I think it will be a step up from what you get a Walmart. I have my own photo printer now, but I used to send photos out monthly or so to get printed.
am designing a halloween kit in mainly black with a hint of color, also been gardening so may do some of that too
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