Now I bet you don’t know where this is heading? Well believe it or not, Vanilla Ice will be helping us out this week on the write click scrapbook blog. Let me explain…
During a recent Glee episode, I was motivated to not only sing along, but to bust out those Ice, Ice baby moves. Let me tell you just how impressed my boys (17 & 14) were to see that spectacle!
In the middle of all this coolness (ok, embarrassing craziness) Vanilla Ice spoke to me…
”if there was a problem, yo I’ll solve it”
…and the seed was sown for a week of problem solving here at wcs, so thank you very much Robert Van Winkle!
So what do we think is one of our biggest problems? I bet it looks something like this…
Super busy family & work schedule + limited time + 1000’s of photos = one overwhelmed scrapbooker! Time, or lack there of, has to be up there as a problem for most people.
We have so many great plans and ideas for our scrapbooking that we literally don’t know where to start. And then we don’t. And where is the fun in that?
There is no one right way to attack this problem, that’s why I do different things at different times, because life is like that. Sometimes I have a lot of time (like a fun girls scrapbook weekend away) and other times I have a few hours after dinner while watching TV. And sometimes I have no time at all and I don't even crack open the scrapbook cupboard.
What I will say is that just seeing what other people do is inspiration enough to overcome your own obstacles and to get you moving forward.
This
week, we are going to dive right in, solve some problems and get some scrapping
done, so let’s get going.
OK, see this pile. These bags all contain photos and ephemera that I have diligently collected when we have been on a holiday or outing. I bundle it up and label it and put it in a basket and there it sits, in my scrapbooking cupboard. That pile just keeps growing and growing. You know that you have something similar going on, maybe in boxes, in a drawer, or in folders, but it’s there.
Now the solution is to just dive right in and make a decision. I am going to tell you straight up that I have about 3 lifetimes of photos and ephemera so I am pretty sure I will never have the time, or the inclination, to scrap it all. And I am ok with that.
So I
just begin by picking a bag, emptying it out and deciding what I want to
remember, the story I want to tell. In this case I had saved everything we came
across on a 2 day break in Sydney. We made the trip to take our son Oscar to
see The Archibald’s as he had just chosen to do Art as one of his senior HSC subjects. When
I looked at everything in front of me, and considered the 15 page mini book I
had planed to make I realised that the real memory I wanted to document was the
visit to the Art Gallery; viewing the Archibald’s, and seeing the people’s-choice
wining entry of Heath Ledger. So
guess what? I just scrapped a single page for Oscar’s album.
I
stuck the program from the exhibit on the back of the layout,
I
put a few of the really good photos of Sydney into my “Places” file,
I filed
the photos I wanted to keep into photo boxes,
I
kept the cool paper bag that had the name “Oscar” on it because I know I can
use that for something, some day,
and then I ditched everything else (everything you see below). Yes
really, I did.
Now
I know that seems scary but I have the memory I wanted to keep scrapped, and I
am one baggie down. This may not be how I treat all those bags, (more on that
later this week) but it got me moving through that pile, which made me feel good. Now
that’s solving a problem! I’ll see you tomorrow… “Word
to your mother, Ice
ice baby too cold too cold”
