It's official! I'm totally crazy!
Not long ago, I had my craft room pretty much organized with everything in its place and I knew where that place was. Then I went crazy.
I realized that I need to be able to see as much as possible as if it was behind closed doors or in a solid container, it just wasn't likely to be used. Around that time, I watched some videos on reorganizing, one being Jennifer McGuire's U-tube channel. I then decided to follow her idea for storing my dies so, of course, had to quickly order the container she used. For my stamp storage I had been using the Crafter's Companion binder system but had the small binders and only a few of the full size ones. This had to change so I went on to order more of them. This task turned out more difficult that I initially thought it would as apparently many other people were also switching to their system so the binders and inserts were difficult to find. I ended up buying from a couple different sites and pre-ordering from another (yes I have that many stamps - like I said, I'm a sandwich short of a picnic basket!)
Now, reorganizing my supplies may not be totally loony but I had to take it one step further. After organizing my stamps the binders the first time, I had stamped every last page and scanned the resulting pages to my computer. From there, I tagged every page to show every option for every stamp (for example a stamp of a bicycle would be tagged bicycle, toy and transportation). This way I can do a search for exactly what stamp I am looking for. I was quite happy with the results of this.
Now to confirm that I am indeed as crazy as a loon, after I reorganized into the new binders (not only moving them to the large binders but also reorganizing them into loose categories), I again started stamping every page. Well, not quite every page - there are a few that I don't have to change. I'm still in the process of finishing this.
Now to the part that makes me think I'm totally off my rocker. Because of the program I'm using for my stamps and probably because I'm totally incompetent on the computer, I think I'm going to have to re-enter all (or most of) the tags. This process took me forever to do the first time so I'm not looking forward to redoing it. I hope that once I finish stamping the pages and get them scanned into the computer that I will find an easier way around this task. Cross your fingers for me.
Now I'm off to continue my crazy organizing.
Take care and see you next time.
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