Kelly's Keepers

I am a collector. I always have been, and probably always will be. When I was younger, my mom gave me a cardboard box labeled, "Kelly's Keepers" to keep under my bed. Anything that I wanted to hold onto went into that box. Unfortunately, i continued to hold on to many more "goods" that did not fit into my box. My parents just found the "Kelly's Keepers" recently, and we had a grand time going through my choices of "must save" items! :D

This "illness" has carried over into my adult life as well. And, on top of that, I married a fellow saver. Let's just say there is not enough attic and closet space at this moment. Although I have begun a journey of decluttering, as previously blogged about, my habbits still continue.

As my students have been making collages throughout the year, I join them in their searches through magazines. Along with this comes many "finds" that must be kept. Some of these are pictures are of things that I want to create myself, such as painting ideas, or how to make textures... Others are step by step craft projects, such as a fantastic quilting tutorial I found yesterday!!! Others are organizational projects, or just funny pictures :D Either way, I have made myself a nice little collection! Now, I must come up with a creative way to organize them. Sofmething crafty. A binder, maybe? A corkboard?...which I have ready to doll up, by the way :)
Anyone else a collector of things?!