Operation Clean Slate: Week 2 – Identifying Road Blocks

November 14, 2011 By 11 Comments

In week one of Operation Clean Slate, you compiled a list of the projects from 2011 that you are behind on. Then you picked one to work on completing before 2011 is over. And you started work by gathering all your supplies together.

But there’s a hitch in the plan. One you probably don’t realize is there.

Why haven’t you finished this project already? I’ll bet in the time you’ve been working on your Operation Clean Slate project (whatever it is) you’ve finished many other things. So why haven’t you completed this project?

We’re going to figure out why.

Take a good hard look at your project. So what is holding you back? Are you short on content? Are you trying to force yourself to work with supplies that aren’t right for you? Are you pushing yourself to do complex techniques that you really don’t want to do? Once you figure out what the road blocks are, you can figure out how to get around them! (Because doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is, after all, the definition of insanity – right?) [Read more...]

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Operation Clean Slate: Let’s Get Started!

November 7, 2011 By 31 Comments

2011 is winding down and soon it will be 2012. Most of us will probably start the new year off by making resolutions, some scrapbook related, and many of us are already planning scrapbook projects that will span 2012.

But, as we look forward, we have to admit that there is something holding us back: this year’s unfinished projects. Whether it is a Project Life album we didn’t keep up with, or a Big Picture class like One Little Word, or another creative project that we tasked ourselves to complete in 2011 and haven’t, it weighs on our mind and creates guilt and leaves a sense of failure already hanging over us as we try to embark on next year’s projects.

Unless, of course…we come up with a way to finish them or get them off of our mind. Which is why this week Scrapbook Update is launching Operation Clean Slate. It’s all about closing out 2011 with a finished project and a clear mind!

So let’s get started!

Each week, we’ll try to move a bit closer to completing something, and to letting go of the rest – to creating a clean slate for 2012. I know this is a busy time of year so we’ll take it slow and try to create doable tasks. Remember, the goal of this is not to commit to a huge project. The goal is to do something manageable and then give yourself permission to let go of what is not possible to complete, to let go of the massive pressures that we put on ourselves to be superhuman. [Read more...]

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Paperclipping Roundtable #57: The Closet Trendsetter

February 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

[Note: Today you get a Roundtable two-fer! This is last week's episode. This week's episode will be posted later this evening!]

This episode, I led a discussion about whether the role of albums was changing in scrapbooking. Wendy Smedley and Angie Lucas joined Noell, Izzy and I at the table to delve into all our volumes of opinions about albums!

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Paperclipping Roundtable #49: All Twelve Months

December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

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We had Stacy Julian and Becky Higgins on to talk about the trend in the industry towards simplifying the way we scrap our photos, and the increasing trendiness of products like Project Life.

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Becky Higgins Project Life Moving To Amazon.com

December 29, 2009 By 1 Comment

Becky Higgins said today on her blog that she will be stopping taking orders after midnight tonight (Dec. 28th) on her popular Project Life kits so that fulfillment of the kit orders can be moved to Amazon.com. Higgins warns that due to this transition the kits will be unavailable for ordering for several weeks, but promises that kit fulfillment will be a much smoother process for everyone than it was previously after the move is completed to using Fulfillment by Amazon.

For kit orders placed through Dec. 28th, Higgins promises that they will be fulfilled by early next week. Unfortunately, she reports the digital version of the kit has been delayed into January a week or two.

Editor’s Note: If you haven’t heard of Amazon’s Fulfillment services before, I highly recommend checking them out if you are in the business of selling product like Becky Higgins does. Their service has a great reputation with both buyers and sellers.

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