Motivational Monday

I like how that sounds, don't you?
Mondays always get a bad rap! Most of the time it's "ARGH, it's Monday!" with a sad face.
For me, Monday is like my Sunday, only I'm home alone- YIPPY!!

Monday is the day to get all the stuff done to help the week run smoothly,
A little bit of laundry,
A bit of groceries,
A bit of house cleaning
But now Mondays are also a bit crafty!
I mentioned last week that Tina & Jackie created a challenge- craft a little bit everyday and share what you created on Mondays!
Here's where the motivation comes in! Not only to I "plan" to post something crafty every Monday, but I want to include a tip, technique or "motivational challenge" with it.

I crafted a bunch last week. My creative flood gates opened up and I was a scrappin' fool! I finished a mini book, created 8 layouts, actually put layouts in page protectors and in albums like there supposed to be AND posted on my blog 5 times!I played with 3 of the new lines from Pink Pailsee- Daily Junique, Butterfly Garden & Soiree... All three of them go nicely together, the colors are all matched in some way or the other.

**ETA** I completely forgot to give credit to Liz @ the Scrappiest for this one! If it wasn't for her sketch blog I probably would have been starting at the paper for hours. I used sketch #115. She deserves the credit for opening up my creative flood gate! Thanks Liz!!

Go Me!! (insert me doing the cabbage patch happy dance here... thank goodness that's NOT on a video file)
It felt so good to create with pictures last week but I did have a small road block.
What pictures do I use? 
Did I scrap that already?
Where are the pictures from...?

Which leads me right into this weeks "crafty" project! To sort through all the pictures on my laptop. Not as much fun as scrappin' BUT if I don't get them organized, I will not know which ones to print and scrap and which one's are already done! Just like last week.
I backed up over 15,000 files last night and started going through them today. I did not realize how many duplicates I had! All that Wasted space!
I also found a bunch of things I created over the past year (since opening the store) that I have not shared (yet). :) It's time to go motivated! Time to get those pictures sorted! Here's a screen capture of how I organize my photos.

Each event gets it's own folder, date and event name.  Then I sort/edit the photos in the file, tage them and print the ones I want. After I scrap photos from that event and photograph my layout, I add the LO image in the file too.
Once events are organized and scrapped, they are moved into a yearly folder. This way I can go back and look for things by year, by event or by person. My reasoning for taking pictures of my layouts and adding them to the folder...
(1) I'll know that I scrapped them already without always going back through albums 
(2) If (heaven forbid) my house went up in flames and all the scrapbooks burned, I can reprint the layouts that I have already worked so hard on.
It made sense to me when I started and I have been doing this for years.

Let's get motivated friends! Get those pictures organized and sorted. You never know you might even find a photo or two that instantly inspires you!

Happy Motivational Monday!!