It can be yours too at http://www.ldsstock.com/ for $15.So this is what happens to you when (a) your visiting teaching appointments and "feed the missionaries" night fall in the same week; (b) your husband reminds you that "yes, we are still on a budget"....i.e., be frugal; and (c) you are semi-quarantined to your house with a runny-nose, coughing kid. No lazing around, no shopping, no gym for you. Break out the Kitchen-Aid and the VT message.
There was no time for green Jello salad, however. I guess there's still room for improvement.
So tonight I definitely topped off the Molly week by baking bread, making jam and organizing all my gospel art pictures. Michael really looked at me strange when I unveiled the new Johnson Family Gospel Art Kit. As if I'd been set loose from somewhere that requires armed security guards and wristbands and bed restraints. That's when I knew I had achieved serious Molly status.
But getting back to the purpose of this post.....
I finally figured out a simple solution for organizing and using all of our church pictures. Besides the infamous blue box of gospel art pictures, we also had a stack of pictures we've torn out from the Ensign and all sorts of miscellaneous pictures that I think have come from Primary manual packets. It was such a mess and would take forever to find a certain picture for FHE lessons. Basically it sat in the closet and no one ever looked at them.
So I put all the pictures in sheet protectors in a binder and stuck a small label at the bottom of the sheet protector with a number on it. Then I made an Excel file with each picture's number, title and various church subjects that it could cover. Now when I want to find a picture for a lesson, I can just do a search for a particular word in my Excel file or I can sort all the pictures by subject. I'm also hoping it will do double duty as a quiet book during sacrament meeting. It's so much more accessible for the kids to look at than the blue box of pictures.
Just thought I'd pass it on in case it works for someone else too.
8 comments:
Kasey you are amazing! Yeah, the blue box is really no good at all. I keep mine in our filing cabinet but I totally like the idea of putting them in the binder. Will I ever do it?? Probably not because I am so much lazier than most mormon gals. :)
I'm with LaNan! I'm way to lazy, but what a great idea!!!
Kasey you are incredible. I don't even tear out great and useful pictures from the Ensign/Friend. But now that you mention it... The excel idea is brilliant too. I will cheat and start with a binder since I don't have any other pictures than the ones in the ubiquitous blue box. Geesh great idea!
Kasey, So, I just found your blog today. I'm happy to see you have a blog. I got the link when I was reading La Nan's site. But I didn't know you had a blog all this time. Maybe I should take the time to get to know you better. :-)
you smart girl! i'd take even 1/2 your brain. it would better than what i've got! :)
Kasey, this is why we're friends: so your molliness will wear off on me :) I love what a go-getter you are and only wish I was one, too. I LOVE this idea about the notebook and pictures and church stuff--you really are getting so churchy these days :) I heart you...can you teach me how to use Excel (and what exactly "Excel" is...just kidding)
Also, I am an idiot, so feel free to delete my idiotic comments...
Great job kasey! I have all my pictures in order too---I just never use them! Ok, my mom put them all in clear sleeves and gave them to me. What do I do next with them? I love all your crafty ideas!!!
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