As
tradition has it, the time has come to
SPRING CLEAN. Your scrapbooking room or space
is similar to the spaces in your home so let’s move through
the house, identify, tidy up, sort out and tick off…
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Kitchen: ‘The pantry for all your scrapbooking supplies’
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All
paper sorted by colour
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Embellishments sorted by theme e.g. Travel, Christmas, flowers
etc.
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Lettering filed by colour
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Hardware such as metal embellishments sorted by theme/type
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Bedroom: ‘Place where you lie in bed and read magazines’
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Magazines sorted by type and in date order
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Ideas
marked or torn out of magazines
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Ideas
scanned and saved under appropriate headings on computer
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Sketches torn out and filed in flip file
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Class
handouts filed in flip file for easy reference
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Bathroom: ‘Place to clean everything’
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Clean
rulers and scissors with methylated spirits to remove glue and
dirt
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Clean
out storage jars and containers
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Clean
work surfaces
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Remove adhesive from cutting board with glue eraser
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Put
your name all equipment ready for your next crop.
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Sharpen all pencils and tidy tool caddy/bag/box
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Home
office: ‘Place where photos are saved and stored’
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Review photo storage system - use your own system of filing
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Back
up all your photos onto external hard drive or cds
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Print
photos, label and sort into pages
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Outdoor spaces: ‘Place where the dustbin is stored’
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Throw
out and recycle all old and used magazines
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Sort
out and bin scraps
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Donate unwanted pattern paper and stickers to charity
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Utility space: ‘Place where incomplete pages are kept’
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Sort
all incomplete projects and put into one box or place
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Systematically work from the top to the bottom and complete
every page
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File
into the relevant spot in the album
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Living room: ‘Place to look at your albums at your leisure’
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All
completed pages filed in albums
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All
albums labelled on the spine
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Albums stored in upright position
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Albums stored with easy access to viewing
I challenge
you to spring clean and get organized.
That way you
will be able use your available stash because you
will know
what you have and being organized makes scrapping so much easier.
