Make Your Own LookBook

For as long as I can remember, I've had a magazine obsession.  I started out with Teen, Teen People, and YM, then moved to Seventeen.  Now, I have subscriptions to InStyle (still my fav), Allure, Cosmo, Glamour, and Marie Claire...and regularly buy Elle and People StyleWatch on the newsstands.  The worst part of all this?  I have a hard time parting with them.  This led to a LARGE collection.  Finally, after moving many times to different dorm rooms, apartments, and cities, I finally accepted that I had to do something (they're very heavy!).  I knew that I couldn't just throw them away -- there is very valuable information there -- so I had to come up with an alternate idea.

I decided to go issue by issue and pull out things I wanted to read, advice I liked, etc., but I focused on clothing pictures that I thought I could be the basis of a future outfit.  There are all sorts of great ideas out there, and most of the pictures I pulled show outfits that I could make with pieces I already have, but in combinations I haven't put together yet.  Since I'm always trying to come up with new outfit ideas, I'll take all the help I can get!

Once I had all my magazines ripped apart, I took the salvaged pages and put them in folders that have built-in sheet protectors.  Now I have 4 LookBooks that I can flip through for ideas and no back issues taking up room in my apartment.