A lot of my friends roll their eyes at me about scrapbooking, it’s kitsch (yeah. So what? sometimes you just need to give yourself a sticker for getting your photos printed and organized. A sticker, and pretty patterned paper, and some acrylic stamps and glitter and alteration ink and special computer fonts and fancy pens and…and…) and then you need to organize that stuff. Enter the Organized and Inspired Scrapbooker, which went out of print when Simple Scrapbooks went out of circulation (sniff).
What have I learned from the writers at Simple Scrapbooks? If you spelled it wrong, print out another journaling card and glue it on top. If your kid is embarrassed by the photo, put it in an envelope and wait for the embarrassment to mature. Cropping photos is what you do when the composition was off in the first place, or when your friend didn’t marry that particular girlfriend after all. Grammar does help you write more succinctly, which means more room for fun pictures on the layout. Done is better than perfect. Glue and stamps are fun for grown ups too. Other people don’t HAVE to look through your books just because you made them. Even I can get organized. If it’s written in the journal or blog; the formal scrapbook can wait. If the photos are organized on the computer I really can find them later on. I don’t have to “catch up.”
OK, what about this particular book? How to set up my scrapping space so that I could find what I would want when I had 5 minute of the-kids-are-cheerful-safe-and-someplace-else. So that I wasn’t cluttered by things I feel guilty about. So that I felt fun when I worked on my hobby – I have enough guilt in the rest of my life, I don’t need to feel bad for fun too!