Quality vs. Quantity

Spent some time today working through the first two weeks' assignments in Cathy Z's "Design Your Life" class. I'm a month behind in the class, but that's life.

I like what I'm learning so far. As a technical writer, I need to consider design when I craft documents for work -- especially when I am creating graphics. The design principles Cathy describes are universal. They apply to scrapbooking, web design, photography, newsletter design. Anything that is visual.

So right now I am concentrating on balance and symmetry -- not two of my strong points right out of the box. What I find interesting is how difficult I find applying this concept to scrapbooking. But, if I am working entirely with text or widgets, it comes naturally to me.

Perhaps the solution is that I need to look at all the things that I put on a scrapbook page as widgets or funny-looking paragraphs of text.

I use to play with placement when I first started scrapbooking -- moving things around before pasting it down. I stopped playing around as my crafting time got more limited.

Perhaps that's where the actual issue lies: I am limited by the clock. I can't produce as many pages as I use to a sitting, because I have less time to actually work. And that is impacting the quality of my work because I'm trying to produce the same quantity that I had in the past.

I think I need to explore my quality/quantity dilemna.