Conquering clutter: kiddie artwork (Part II)
November 21st, 2009 by ZeeIn May, I posted a CC entry on displaying and storing kiddie artwork. At the time, storing away our 2-year-old's drawings wasn't really an issue because she didn't have too many. But now, just six months later, we could probably devote an entire wing of the Louvre to her masterpieces. The little one seems to have found her inner Da Vinci and has been creating artwork like crazy.
Our poor refrigerator was suffocating and we were running out of magnets. So it was time to find a storage solution for the pieces that have been on display for several months. Here's what we're doing:
I decided to use an old shoe box.
Since it's a little bigger and deeper than a typical shoe box (it was a box for boots), I think it'll easily store several years' worth of our daughter's work.
What about you? What are your storage solutions for your kiddie's best drawings and paintings? Do you have tips or tricks to share?
Tags: art, artwork, conquering clutter, display, storage
November 22nd, 2009 at 6:07 am
yes I throw them out..I use to collect then all of the sudden the junk piled up....!
November 22nd, 2009 at 6:08 am
just wait until they come home full of junk from school. now I collect only photos but then I toss half of crappy photos..( JUST DON"T TELL MY HUSBAND he collects too much junk..he will fetch them back from garbage!
November 22nd, 2009 at 6:13 am
then my husband mom toss his junk collections into my lap from his parents home ... his rusty toys to stinky scrap book which she keep in garage and expects me to have it..this time OUT OUT ..OH DEAR I use to go along .....they tell me it means something to him..YES I SAY CRAPPY COLLECTIONS ..so behind his back out it goes in garbage...!I am tired of tossing so now I am trying to tidy....
November 22nd, 2009 at 6:14 am
I went to througth that phase collecting my kids art work ..then one day WHAT THE HELL IS THIS CRAP HERE..out of your crap !
November 22nd, 2009 at 6:19 am
oh I got to learn to use my husband shredder..all those "art work" and crappy phots will be shredded before they fecth them back from garbage..lets see them look in shredder! yes pciture my son ues to cry mom you three my drawing.....YES DRAWING MY FOOT..so I throw it when he goes to sleep..I am not going to put up with crap....!
November 22nd, 2009 at 6:19 am
yes throw it when they sleep or they cry..yes my husband cry oh you threw it..TOO BAD LOSER I SAY!
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Rosette: I've already thrown out half of my daughter's drawings. I'm trying to be very, very, very selective, keeping in mind how limited our storage space is for her artwork. Andreas, on the other hand, has a hard time letting go of a lot of her pictures. He rather I be in charge of deciding what stays and what goes. Works for me.
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Hey Z...My oldest is 8 yrs old and I kept he's artwork and school work since preschool. They are still stored in bins. I'm a scrapbook person. So I need to go over it and would want some to go into a scrapbook. I recently learned from someone that they started scanning their children's work and put it into digital scrapbook. And those that are bigger to put into my scrapbook, I take a picture of it. It is a great idea! The only problem is that I don't have the time to do my scrapbook projects. So for now its stored in bins or saved onto my external hard drive.
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Well, the Rose speaks from the Frozen North!!
Let me tell you this, Small Red Flower, my mom took my crappy comic book collection of original Disneys and others, and my crappy baseball card collection with Mickey Mantle's rookie card--both of which would undoubtedly fetch up to $20K (which would have funded my entire college education) and threw them into the garbage can!!
What do I say to mothers who do that to their sons? And my own mother from whose womb I sprung!! "Crap! Crap! And DOUBLE Crap!!" I say!!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Jovy D.: Hey girl! Welcome to The A-Z Files. I love the digital scrapbook idea. That's probably a lot more quicker and easier than making one from scratch. If only mommies could devote an extra hour or two each day to scrapbooking ...
Richard:
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Thanks, Z. But I know that was a crappy post.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Richard: Are you done?