What prevents you from scrapping more?

What prevents you from scrapping more?

  • Time

    Votes: 68 74.7%

  • Cost

    Votes: 4 4.4%

  • Desire

    Votes: 7 7.7%

  • Other? Tell us what it is!

    Votes: 12 13.2%
  • Total voters
    91
I'm the first to vote cost :) I actually do have quite a bit of time to scrap. I like to have shiny new kits to scrap with. I use most of of my kits 2-3 times, and some I love as many as 6 or so times. I know if I could buy as much as I want I would totally be scrapping much more. I have a ton of pics left to scrap, I feel like I'll never be caught up!! And my list of unused kits right mow is like 3 kits :) but 1 is the recent ssd freebie I will be using soon, one is a bigger collab freebie and one is a ssd kit bought for a specific lo I just haven't made yet :)
 
I always say that I wish I could get the equivalent of 8 hours' sleep with just one hour. I dream of all the pages I could finish with all that extra time. :/ I know it's also partly my fault--I have a tendency to focus entirely on work when projects come. I think I could do better with a little more advance planning.
 
Tiiiiiiiiiiiime. Full-time job, 4 kids (and they are even more work as they get older, just in different ways), and then I volunteer way too much and take on too many big projects. I keep hoping this next school year will slow down with 2 gone off to college. But then the next 2 are entering their high school years which means lots of activities.
 
Paula said:
I got hired full time in the school district teaching second grade and then working on my sped credentials, I barely have time to eat and sleep.
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Congrats on the new job, Paula!

I voted time. I don't scrap when the kids are around, though once in a while I can find enough daytime free time to make an exception for a last minute CT LO. Between being a very slow scrapper and not getting any scrap time until 9 pm or so, it usually takes me 2 days to finish a LO. If things have been busy or stressful, I'm wiped out by the time I get to scrap and can't focus. Then it's hard to scrap at all, and when I do I get distracted too easily. During those times it can take me 4-5 nights to finish a LO. But I'm still calling it a time thing, not a mojo thing, because if there were more hours in a day I'd be able to sleep or relax more and not be so tired and distractable.
 
Hey guys...sneaking a peek in here...

Honestly and its quite embarrassing :o
I spend so much time on photography. There said it. I always rolled my eyes (well figuratively) when people became photographers because they wanted better photos to scrap with and then spent all their time on the photos and forgot to scrap...but I am so there. Its hard because its a whole 'nother ball of complexities, personalities, and lets be honest a little competition in the momtographer world. Those of you who are also members of a photographer site for moms know what I'm talking about...its addicting. So much so that you just simply push off the scrapbooking part to perfect those photos whether they be portraits or lifestyle shots. Then your kids get fed up with your obsession and you turn to other people, because they tell you how great your photos look now on facebook and you figure "why shouldn't I try to make a go of this and at least pay for some of these costs" (I am simplifying it a ton and I do run a legal business with taxes and insurance etc). So then you take on clients and the game is brought up a whole 'nother level because now there is money involved and expectations and customer service and emails and such. And suddenly you find yourself busy with other people's photos you barely ever edit your own.

And so I sit here today. Scrapping my first page in months. After I again lost it in the rush. So really its not time, its not motivation per say but its somewhat distraction of the photography part and its over-seeking perfection. And I'm not sure how to cure that now that I'm in "so deep" into the thing. Sigh.

So feel free to roll your eyes and such, but I could also maybe use a :hugs: if I do get a page done! I miss you all, I almost never check in because of :o.

I should though, maybe this summer as I take an official break from my business during the holiday. I've learned so much from my friends at SSD over the years!!:wub:

OH and you all REALLY need a like button. I kept looking for it throughout this thread and others!:blink:
 
It is time for me - I want to scrap all the time but my job just keeps me from doing much these days. I feel sometimes overwhelmed that I will never scrap all my girls' moments because I never have the time I want.....
 
I'm working on Project Life this year, but I got behind in March and haven't really kept up even with printing photos, so I guess I'm overwhelmed at the thought of going back and catching up. but I just got some new supplies and I used Traci's tutorial on putting QR codes on layouts, and I'm having a lot of fun with it now.
 
Time. I don't even take photos anymore either. I need to come up with a STRATEGY and FAST before I find myself crying in the closet with a bag of chocoate.
 
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