Digital Filing

I taught -- and still teach-- people to use computers, software, etc. so you'll forgive my OCD around digital organization.  I like my computer indexed.  Unfortunately, this obsession does not apply to my sewing room.  I love computers, I spend time surfing the internet, reading blogs, and when I come across lovely things I want to keep for inspiration,  I need a place to put them.

This folder (NEEDLEWORK) is on my desktop. It is the fastest and easiest place to throw stuff when I right-click and hit "save image as."  Yesterday was a quiet day at the store, so I put this folder on a flash drive and brought it to work.  I spent some time organizing it in to smaller, topic-specific folders.  (Again with the organizational thing.)  At the same time,  I weeded out the "meh" stuff and threw those pictures in to the digital wastebasket.   The  process of cataloging  images refreshes me, energizes me, and gets me off my computer chair and back in to the sewing room.

I will confess  I have spent the past half hour surfing around looking at quilts.   This time, when I saw images I wanted to keep for inspiration,  I merely right-clicked the mouse and put them EXACTLY where they needed to go.

Now I need to get up from this chair and make some of those projects a reality!