Finish going through my magazines and cutting pictures to scrapbook

Most of them had no pictures in worth saving, just the odd one here or there. It was mainly recipes I found myself rescuing!
As I sat watching tv and recycling mags I found myself yearning to sit with my scrapbook and do something creative. I also daydreamed about taking photos of the finished pages to show here what I am doing with these pictures. It’s nothing like the ‘scrapbooking’ that has become so popular with sentimental displays and sticky ribbons etc. It’s all about inspiration to me, things that inspire me and motivate me, or images that look particularly special and relate to one of my interests.

Today when I was sorting out some junk by my bed i moved the final big pile of magazines, mainly ‘healthy’ plus a few free mags from Boots and a couple of Zest issues. It feels hopeless when I see all the articles I have cut out and not actually read through yet. The ones I rescued when I did the previous cull. I know I can do it – I just need to do a chunk at a time, use a timer maybe so i know the end is in sight.
The actual scrapbook creating is the best part, but I started to run out of decent images and could do with more anyway otherwise I would have just thrown the magazines away already.

This time with the ‘Healthy’ mags that they sell in Holland and Barrett. Full of really good articles, some of which I cut out to read later. Some were full of herbs and things to add during a detox so they are especially useful!

Incidentally a week or so ago I started to go through some of the old articles I had cut out, thinking I really don’t need endless Happiness Reports and Home Exercise routines, so I threw some of them out too :D

The biggest benefit from all this is I get more space in my bedroom :D

I have gone through about 4 years worth of health magazines, cutting out inspirational photographs for my scrapbook of inspiration (hair related, beauty related and yoga related) and themes such as food to decorate my recipe cuttings, recipes too of course, and some articles I didn’t think I wanted to recycle just yet without reading them through properly. Our recycling collection people must hate me for having bits of loose paper in the magazine bin!
Anyway I have lots of pics, I have quite a few pages glued down artistically (I have a formula for filling a page, I’m not into this ‘scrapbooking malarky’ where you buy in loads of trimmings and stickers to decorate a page though) and it is something I spend an hour on from time to time, I find it therapeutic.
I need to get on top of everything and finish the final two small piles of magazines so that I have more space by my bed!