...to get my behind out of this chair and scrap? I have finally finished the things I need to do and have cleaned up my scrap space. The kids are busy, the dinner dishes are done. Nothing else that beckons me right now. The table is right behind me. Why am I afraid to get up and try? Am I afraid I have set my bar too high for myself? I am finished with DT commitments ( other than thinking*through*design which I don't see as a stressor AT ALL) and I am finally free to really create FOR ME and no one else. That should be freeing...why isn't it?
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brown eyed girl: ...to get my behind out of this chair and scrap? I have finally finished the things I need to do and have cleaned up my scrap space. The kids are busy, the dinner dishes are done. Nothing else that beckons me right now. The table is right behind me. Why am I afraid to get up and try? Am I afraid I have set my bar too high for myself? I am finished with DT commitments ( other than thinking*through*design which I don't see as a stressor AT ALL) and I am finally free to really create FOR ME and no one else. That should be freeing...why isn't it?
I have days like that. For me, it's not having a plan in mind, or having a project that *has* to be done, or a layout that has been sitting on the desk. I'm afraid of failure. And I shouldn't be, but sometimes I sometimes am. When faced with times like these, I just have to dive in and start. I find that it generally works out in the end.
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You are probably right, Laurie. I just need to dive in. At this point though...I may wait until tomorrow!
I tried to scrap without goals and without challenges or commitments but I feel your pain, it is really hard to just do it. If there's not some sort of "project" to work for it's hard to be motivated. Try a challenge, even if it's an old one to help spark your motivation. That usually does the trick for me.
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Sometimes I find that I'm just tired. I've worked so hard on all sorts of projects that "need" to get done, I don't have anything left for myself.
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Steffanie, I have found that keeping up with DT assignments or challenges gives me more motivation to scrap. If I get my assignments finished early, then I usually just sit around with plenty of free time, thinking I need to scrap, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Sometimes I will throw in a just for fun page here or there, but I think the assignments and challenges give me a focus and that helps me to get things done.
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Ashley Horton: Steffanie, I have found that keeping up with DT assignments or challenges gives me more motivation to scrap. If I get my assignments finished early, then I usually just sit around with plenty of free time, thinking I need to scrap, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Sometimes I will throw in a just for fun page here or there, but I think the assignments and challenges give me a focus and that helps me to get things done.
I see what you are saying, Ashley. But I actually found I scraped far fewer pages overall when I was scrapping for DT's. I think I set my bar for those so high that they took me forever to complete, feeling that they had to meet a standard above what I would normally do just for me. I like the idea of scrapping freely again. I don't want to feel like I need to scrap or have to scrap...although it was a nice excuse and did help me get pages done! I guess I am just too slow and the pressure is too much for me. I really don't know how you do it, being on so many DT's at once. I think I would be certifiably insane!
Steffi, I know where you're coming from. I am always that way when I go a few days without scrapping. I drag out pics, paper, etc. look at it and think, "I have not a clue how to do this." It's almost like I'm totally new to scrapping and I've been doing it for more than 10 years. My best advice is to plunge! When I do, it all begins to fall into place rapidly.
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brown eyed girl: Ashley Horton: Steffanie, I have found that keeping up with DT assignments or challenges gives me more motivation to scrap. If I get my assignments finished early, then I usually just sit around with plenty of free time, thinking I need to scrap, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Sometimes I will throw in a just for fun page here or there, but I think the assignments and challenges give me a focus and that helps me to get things done. I see what you are saying, Ashley. But I actually found I scraped far fewer pages overall when I was scrapping for DT's. I think I set my bar for those so high that they took me forever to complete, feeling that they had to meet a standard above what I would normally do just for me. I like the idea of scrapping freely again. I don't want to feel like I need to scrap or have to scrap...although it was a nice excuse and did help me get pages done! I guess I am just too slow and the pressure is too much for me. I really don't know how you do it, being on so many DT's at once. I think I would be certifiably insane!
I get that Steffanie. I found it to be more restricting (at least for CW because who knows what product line we'd get and we'd have to use it with a certain technique etc), I found those pages to often take four times the mental capacity as a regular page I do, thus it left me with less creative power to do what I wanted on my own.
But don't worry about not having the ambition at the moment, it will be back!!
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This happens to me about once or twice a year. I haven't done much since summer camp. I sit my butt on the couch, look at scrapping stuff, but can't bring myself to move to the other side of the couch where my scrap table is. For me, I think it's because right now I'm afraid I won't do the pictures/stories justice with my scrapping. But then I see my kids looking through their books, and they don't care how it looks. They just like that the pages are there to look at, and that usually causes me to get back to scrapping.
Steffanie, I think I am already certifiabliy insane from my kids!! HA!! Sitting down and doing scrapbook pages actually helps me keep a little shred of my sanity. I am a first-born over achiever, so I thrive on having challenges or assignments. I think the fun part for me, is taking the challenge or assigment I'm given and still finding a way to make it mine.
Can't help, sorry. I say, "just do it!"
D'LeeBug: Sometimes I find that I'm just tired. I've worked so hard on all sorts of projects that "need" to get done, I don't have anything left for myself.
That's how I feel sometimes. I "want to" scrap but sometimes I'm just mentally too tired.
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I've never been a DT or anything, but I totally relate. Right now, downstairs in my space, I have a layout that I've had in my head for a long time. This weekend I had a chance to work on it, and I did. BUT FOR SOME REASON I CANNOT FINISH IT!!! I certainly want to finish it. I want to get that blogpost written and get everything posted and call 'er done. But I'm awake, and everyone else is sleeping, and I'M NOT DOWN THERE -- I'm browsing the internet, watching TV, sitting on the couch! I know I've been out of it for a bit (because since school started I haven't really had the time), so maybe that's it? I have no idea, but I can sympathize!
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