It’s Here! Download “Take Control of Your Stuff Guide: Part One” Today!
Take Control of Your Stuff Guide: Part One
IT’S FINALLY HERE! It’s time to Take Control of Your Stuff.
I am thrilled to announce that Take Control of Your Stuff: Part One is now available. This interactive resource guide is full of practical information, case studies, worksheets, planners, exercises, and resources that I have developed to help you better understand, care for, preserve, and even downsize your personal treasures, family heirlooms, and cherished collectibles.
This is not a “how to declutter your home” resource. Instead, Take Control of Your Stuff tackles the objects that pull at your heartstrings, that you know (or think) you should prioritize, or are having trouble downsizing. After 25 years of working in and around museum and archival collections and heirloom preservation, I am using my professional and personal experience to write the playbook to help individuals like you tackle their own collections.
This guide just might change your life. It sounds audacious, but I am serious! With my help, you’re going to finally Take Control of Tour Stuff. Whether you want to preserve, store, display, and/or downsize your personal treasures, this guide will help you every step of the way.
Why do you need Take Control of Your Stuff Part One?
Are you not sure how to begin or know what your options are?
Our Preservation Checklist, project brainstorming worksheets, and project planners will help you plan your projects and help you stay on track.
Are family heirlooms and personal treasures taking over your home?
Our Design Your Space sheets, environmental guidelines, and comprehensive DCDC guide will help you understand how to best use your space for storage and display.
What’s included:
Part One includes a 38-page, instantly downloadable e-book that is ready to print. Worksheets and exercises can be printed as many times as you need, so you’ll have everything you need to plan your preservation projects.
The Heart & Soul of Living History
Museum Registrar Christina Thompson joined me on the podcast for a fantastic conversation about the years she spent as a costumed historical interpreter in central Iowa. With a professional background in museum collections work and an insatiable love of learning, Christina brought both passion and expertise to the different roles she embodied at sites throughout the fictional historical town of Walnut Hill.
During our chat, she explains how historical interpreters are trained, and the many hats (both symbolic and literal) they may wear throughout a single workday. Historical interpreters are often the only museum staff or volunteers at a particular site, which means they are responsible for everything! Whether it's managing visitor services and safety, leading tours or programming for visitors and school groups, cleaning and site upkeep, collections care, or any additional duties that the site requires (such as farming, making brooms, demonstrating printing presses, or in Christina's case, a lot of cooking), historical interpreters really are the heart and soul of a living history museum.
Find the Exhibitsmith podcast wherever you find your podcasts, or listen directly at Exhibitsmith.com.
New Preservation Products From Hangerbee
Padded Pants Hangers Now Available!
Whether you've been waiting patiently for a padded pants hanger or you would like a narrower padded clothes hanger, this one's for you. Each chrome hanger with chrome hook (non swivel) is padded with museum-quality polyethylene padding and three layers of 100% cotton stockinette.
Like all Hangerbee hangers, our pants hangers are hand-assembled, hand-sewn, and safe for long term preservation and storage. What’s not to love?
Quilt Batting Sold by the Yard
Our favorite, preservation-safe polyester padding is now available by the yard! Needle-punched and resin-free, this batting is safe for preservation projects and great for quilts, sewing projects, and related fiber arts.
What’s Next?
I am still hard at work behind the scenes developing an amazing new way to help you take control of your stuff. Now that Part One is available, I am busy working on Part Two (Donating Artifacts to Museums) and beyond, with more guides to be released as they are finalized.
Over the past few years, I have been writing and developing about 200 pages of content, all to help you Take Control of Your Stuff.
Additional Guides that are currently in development include:
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Donating Artifacts to Museums
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Downsizing Heirlooms & Collectibles
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Saving Your Family Photos
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Saving Your Books & Papers
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Saving Your Clothing & Textiles
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Saving Your Wedding Dress (& Other Options)
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Understanding Objects
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Documenting Your Story / Developing Your Memoir & Connecting Memories to Heirlooms
I am also preparing to record my existing programs and make recordings available to you, as well as relaunch my Donating Artifacts to Museums content, and record my Saving Your Wedding Dress (& Other Options) program. I am also exploring ways to create a community for people who are in the trenches preserving, documenting, and/or downsizing their treasures.
Be sure to check back for details!
Thank you, as always, for supporting my small business.
I would love to hear from you. Please email at shop@hangerbee.com or find us on social media.
Best wishes, Lindsey Smith
Hangerbee.com &
Exhibitsmith.com
