Monday, April 18, 2011

Organize your stuff challenge - Week 4 (and a new LO!)

First of all...I did finally finish another LO!  A little background:  I am desperately trying to finish a couple of scrapbooks for my DD's graduation in June.  I did the same mad scramble last year for DS's graduation and managed to have two decent scrapbooks chronicling his sports exploits from kindergarten through HS.  Now I'm finishing DD's dance scrapbook (she danced from age 3 to 13, and has just gone back to it this year) and I need to do a football one for her (she was the team manager all four years of HS).  I only have about four more LOs for the dance album, and then on to the football one.  That one should be easier because I plan to scraplift myself from DS's football album!  ANYWAY...here is the latest dance LO.  I keep the embellishments to a minimum since the pictures are so busy...I was inspired by last week's sketch on Sketch Support.


Now...on to the challenge...I started early with the sorting and purging!  I will be storing all of my paper vertically, cardstock in CH files and patterned paper in black Paper Studio files I found at Hobby Lobby (they were less expensive than more CH files, especially since they were on sale last week!).  All of the cardstock is sorted by ROYGBIV, with separate files for whites/blacks/browns.  Patterned paper will either be sorted by color, pattern if it's multicolored (flowers, dots, stripes, plaids, etc.) or by theme (school, sports, music, season, holiday, travel).  Within the colors I will sort by pattern also.  Favorite lines (esp. BG) will be separated within each area.  While I was doing my initial gathering of all of my patterned paper from various places, I realized I have a TON of those plastic dividers that come with the CH sets.  So I can't wait to get organizing and using my label maker!!  DH is leaving on Thursday and I will have uninterrupted time to get this finished!

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