Forget-Me-Not Friday

            Another week brings a new series (hopefully) for my growing blog. I’ve been sorting through my room recently (a little early spring cleaning, if you will) and have been coming upon new ways to recycle old things, those things I don’t want to toss outright. It has been particularly amusing to sort through those odd items that made it into my moving boxes last October, seemingly haphazardly. As the saying goes, “Out with the old,” and yet to actually achieve that clean space I’m excluding the “In with the new.”

            The first thing to "go" has been my piles of old magazines. With every trip for auditions, grad school interviews, and holidays up north, the latest copy of Vogue, Elle, Arrive, and Women’s Fitness has found its way into my carryon luggage, eventually landing in a heap (often only quickly skimmed) on my bedroom floor on my arrival home. The dilemma, I usually discover some great ab workout, a yummy recipe, or a gorgeous dress design among the other 87 or so glossy pages, and don’t want to lose track of it.

            Thank god for George Brooks – the Kansas resident credited for the 1924 “invention” of the corkboard, or at least the first to stick pins in one!

            Rather than losing track of those fun finds I have dedicated a portion of the wall above my desk for a layout of corkboard to hold all these cool clippings. Sounds simple, sure, but every once in a while I look back over the pages to spice up my exercise routine, add a dash of something new to my dinner menu, or throw an old skirt and top together in a new way. Once I’ve tried an idea out a couple times I toss the magazine clip. There are, after all, more magazines and more ideas to flip through among those glossy pages.