The spring cleaning continues as I use my hoarding tendencies as a way to jump start my creativity for this week’s Let’s Play video and link party! I have all these paper badges that I bought to make a couple of travel albums for each of my kids. Some of the trips were a decade ago and I still haven’t made the albums.
Reality check…I’m not going to make them. So I have challenged myself to Use it or Lose It! Whatever I don’t use will have to be donated or if not donation worthy, trashed. Crime! Crime! Crime! I’m motivated to use them up.
I’m adding them to the journal I started in last week’s Let’s Play video.
The super challenge here was I had multiples of most of them. That got me to take some risks, to try a variety of ways to use them that I would not do if I was treating them as precious or saved for that “perfect” project.
In the video, you’ll see where I struggled to let go and play, where my inner hoarder was the loudest and how that one little sentence of Use it or Lose it came to my rescue!
Watch How to stop hoarding art supplies on YouTube.
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Now you’ve seen my play, let’s see yours in the link party below! For this party, it can be any play on the theme or not (since play really doesn’t have a lot of rules)!
This month’s giveaway is a $50 gift certificate to Bluemoon Scrapbooking! Link up what you’re creating (and you get a bonus entry into the giveaway for sharing your play) or leave a comment telling something that you liked about one of the photos shared. One comment per person but you can link up to 3 images of your play each week! Giveaway closesSunday, May 1st at 8am EST.
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