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Burning Question: Do You Suffer From Scrapbooker’s Guilt?

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Welcome to another installment of Burning Question, where it’s your turn to share your thoughts!

A couple of days ago on Facebook, I saw an interesting conversation about Project Life on Christine Newman aka Listgirl‘s FB page that went something like this:

Random Male FB Friend: Hobbies shouldn’t be causing you anxiety. The moment it stops being fun… stop. My $0.02.

Christine: Tell that to every scrapbooker. I don’t know any scrapbooker that doesn’t feel some kind of anxiety or guilt about NOT scrapbooking, or even scrapbooking.

Which got me thinking…

Why is it that scrapbooking and guilt seem to go hand in hand?

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Guilt trip notepad from ModCloth

I’d say just about every scrapbooker could tell you that it does, but why is that?

Is it due to the time-focused nature of scrapbooking? Is it somehow a female-based trait (since men don’t seem to have these same reservations)? Or is it simply something that has become accepted as a part of scrapbooking culture?

I admit despite my best intentions to keep my scrapbooking relatively guilt-free, there are definitely times when I feel like I’m not doing enough. Which is kind of crazy because shouldn’t I be playing by my own rules?

So I’m curious to hear from you!

Do you suffer from scrapbooker’s guilt? Where do you think this whole crazy idea of scrapper’s guilt comes from? And what can we do to banish guilt from our scrapbooking once and for all?

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Burning Question: Are Your Photos Organized?

POSTED ON IN Adventures in Organizing, Burning Questions


Organizing is always a hot topic around the scrapbooking world but today I want to focus on one specific aspect of scrapbook organization: photos.

As I’ve been working my way through Stacy Julian’s Finding Photo Freedom class over at Big Picture Classes, I’ve been thinking a lot about photo organizing, scrapbooking and how the two work together.

Here is what I have realized:

1) Having unorganized photos limits my scrapbooking creativity

As much as I hate the thought of spending valuable scrapbooking time tagging and organizing photos, I’m quickly realizing that being able to find photos to go with my stories is key to getting those stories scrapped.

While a simple keyword search for “red button” may work for my digital scrapbooking supplies, it’s a whole lot harder to find a photo of say “Adam” in a sea of generic photo names like IMG_10234. 

If I want to be able to find my photos in a more inspiring way, I need to take the time to make it happen. My creativity will thank me.

2) Simplicity is key

The key to any organizing system: easy maintenance over time. If the system or software is too complicated to maintain, I’m not going to stick with it.

3) I need a better system for tracking ideas

The more time I spend with my photos, the more ideas I have…and the more ideas I forget. I need to figure out a way to keep track of all the story and project ideas so when I sit down to scrapbook I can actually remember them.

It’s Time for a Poll

So where do you stand on the photo organizing home front? Have you whipped your photos into tip-top shape? Or are you drowning in a sea of I-take-WAY-too-many-photos?

I’d love to hear what you have to say and to make things nice and easy, I even whipped up this handy little poll:

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I’d love to hear more about why you voted the way you did, so feel free to comment away with more details.

Aperture photo from Apple.

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