July 22, 2009

Organizing My Inspiration

Inspiration files are not a new concept and I have happily kept one for a couple years now.
I have held on to pages and pages of beautiful photos from magazines, carefully adding them to my book. I enjoy skimming it's pages while impatiently awaiting new issues. With so many pages finding a specific photo has become increasingly difficult.
Yesterday while adding the newest stack of photos to the book I finally realized enough is enough, I needed a better system.
I took everything out of my current book and sorted through everything to form 6 categories.

I came up with: home decorating, gardening, crafts, sewing, holidays, and scrapbooking.

I assigned each category a 1" binder (home decorating received a 2" binder). Within each binder I divided the topic into sub-categories using 3M's sticky file tabs. Here's an example.
Then I added stamped labels.
Since I was in such an organizing mood, I also made stamped labels for my magazine holders.
They look so good all lined up and nice and neat.
It feels to good to be ultra-organized!

4 comments:

  1. Very nice! Thanks for following my blog-and I always enjoy a good organization post!

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  2. Some great ideas. Maybe someday I'll want to get organized! Your garden is looking great. The sandbox will get many happy hours of playtime for your kids. (And maybe you!)

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  3. I have 5 albums full of decorating magazine pages and still have tons more I need to organize. Maybe I'll try this method. Thanks!

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  4. Seems everyone has done an organizing post for the new year. Stop by next week to see what I came up with! Love your blog the header is fab!

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