I have mentioned before that I love my mmagazines. Unfortunately I also save them (not all of them, just selected titles). I have saved my Martha Stewarts for awhile. I stack them in my studio and go thru them periodically for inspiration. The other day I was out working and realized what a space sucker they have become.
I hauled them into the house to go thru them and rip out pages I liked. I have a stack 46 inches tall with 97 copies...my earliest copies date to Oct of 1992 and Oct of 1995. That is embarrassing.
Doesn't Martha look quite young?
I do have a method to my madness with magazines. Here are my tips. When I read magazines I always have post it notes nearby and flag pages with things of interest when I read. That makes it easy to purge when I do go thru magazines to rip out pages...I know what pages interested me off the bat (altho I often page thru the whole magazine anyhow.)
I also discovered that instead of ripping out the pages and ending up with a jagged tear or ripping part of the page I wanted to save that an exacto knife works great. I just cut close to the fold and the page comes out nice and clean - quick and easy. It's a good thing.
And now that I don't have the huge space sucker stacks of Martha in my studio I have lots more storage, something I never seem to get enuf of. That led to a 3 hour organizational spree this weekend...but that is another post!
