Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Recipes Organized!

While I was camping earlier this month, I finally finished organizing my recipe collection! I had a bunch of recipes on 8.5 x 11 paper, hand-written on pieces of paper, and recipe-themed magainzes piled high. I ordered a recipe book, with matching recipe cards, and plastic pages.

Then I started sorting through the recipes and magazines. Once I had the recipes I wanted to keep, I wrote them on recipe cards. If there was a picture associated with the recipe, I included that on the recipe card. I need a visual!

Here's what I started with when I remembered to take a picture. I had already sorted through a stack of recipes.


And here are the recipes all organized and neat!


I also stole this idea from Barb at A New Chelsea Morning. She created a Good Things notebook with sheet protectors. It includes all kinds of useful and fun information. Now, when I'm reading a magazine, I tear out any articles I want to keep and they go in the notebook.
Here's mine:
I love having things organized, but sometimes it gets overwhelming. I just made up my mind to get these two things organized, and I did it! It took some time, but it's d-o-n-e! And I'm h-a-p-p-y!

4 comments:

Barb said...

Good job, Jada! My good things book is so much fun - I love filling it up with every random little good idea I come across. I started mine years ago. My recipes aren't in a binder like yours, but I'm making binders like that, of family recipes, for both my daughters, for Christmas.

Don't you love it? It's so much better than a huge pile of magazines sitting around. :-)

Susie said...

Looks great Jada,
I have some very similar binders filled with way too many recipes. I need to do some serious decluttering!

Controlling My Chaos said...

It's so nice to have your recipes organized, isn't it. It kind of makes me want to cook.

Marybeth Whalen said...

Wow! I love this-- thanks so much for commenting so I could drop by and see what you did. I am inspired!!