How do you make time to craft ...

Also a southern Ca pea. Here the weather can be an incentive because I have no desire to be out in 95+ degree weather unless I am in the pool. And that is only a hour or so.

My incentive is it keeps me off of my phone and that in turn helps with my stress, anxiety, and overall mental health. I didn't get on for 4 days and was able to crank out quite a bit of pocket page layouts.

I kind of schedule it into my day. On Tuesday and Thursday dd has one college class and that is almost 2 hours. So I will scrap in the evening if I am up to it.

I scrap some Wednesday's during her IgG infusion. We are at a place where I can go up to the loft at the top of the stairs while she is downstairs and I can haul butt if she needs me. She plays video games and hangs out on her phone.

Friday, Sat, and Sun are my biggest scrap days. I make sure I get things done in the morning and then early afternoon till evening I scap/craft.

As a mom to 2 medically complex teens with various needs, therapies, and appointments, I have found that carving out blocks of me time works best. And I prioritize what should come first. For me, that is housework/chores, family time, then craft time. And I dont feel jipped because everyone is getting equal time.

I'm an indoor cat living in the gloomy PNW. The sun gives me energy but does not call me to go outside and do things, for the most part, and our spring/summer is quite different from yours.

I have several different projects/hobbies/tasks in my life and in any given week I find that if I focus on 2 or 3 then the others get neglected. One week I might do really well on gardening, cooking, and digital scrapping but make zero cards, and the next week I make 100 cards but eat the same meal 5 nights in a row. Sewing comes along once in a blue moon, crochet I can do all the time because I have linked that with evening TV watching.

Summer sounds like a busy outdoors time for you. Maybe that won't last all summer but for now it's probably just the "season" you're in. Besides scheduling yourself some time in the odd hours, early in the morning or late at night perhaps, crafting while you're doing other things, or scheduling a crop, I would just wait until the heat/bugs drive you back indoors or the rhythms of life shift again.

I have to make it a priority, and sometimes real life, and special needs son gets in the way! It is a difficult balance!

good weather for me (FL) is early spring/late fall not summer - I do more hobby stuff in the summer while I avoid the heat. But like joblackford said - I have several hobbies/projects and sometimes it's just not a scrapbooking season for me and I'll go a couple of week or a couple of months without doing any.

After dinner is a good time for me to find crafty time during good weather/busy seasons - but I'm a night owl. Early mornings might work better if you're a lark.

Another WI girl here and with gardening starting it’s been tough here too. Having a dedicated space for crafting helps a lot. I often sneak away for a little in the afternoon when my kids are taking their creative time. Another thing I try to do is have pictures and such pre edited or printed already. Making kits with LO ideas helps too.

I love the sun. I get giddy when it starts warming up and just want to sit outside drinking cocktails all the time. For me I slow down a lot in summer. I do however have a pretty good Saturday morning routine going where I scrapbook for about 2 hours while drinking coffee. I’m really a morning person so this helps me keep motivated and feels like a treat. I also ocasssionally will go down there before work and sneak in 30 minutes.

I feel like I have "seasons" for my many hobbies just like the weather. Right now I'm spending more time outside gardening (could also be due to moving to a "new" house). Once it turns hotter and more humid I will be staying indoors more and back to scrapbooking and card making. Then this fall I will probably be outside more. Once winter hits I may quilt or crochet along with the paper crafting. I've just learned not to stress over it as long as I'm enjoying the way I'm spending my free time. It really is ok to have multiple hobbies.

I think this is another reason I like to do WITL during summer (besides the photos are usually better) it gets me really excited to scrapbook and doing some sort of documenting during that time.
I might try to do some PL app & digital photo organizing on my deck this summer.
We need a Wisco summer retreat “Coffee & Cocktails” 😂

I scrap pretty much every day. Because I do digital scrapping, I scrap on my MacBook, so I have a lot more flexibility. Every night after dinner I turn my MacBook on and will play around while I'm watching TV. When I used to paper scrap, I would do it in my study / craft room, which meant I was away from the family. This way I can still be hanging out with them AND scrapping at the same time. 

In summer I spend a lot more time outdoors and away from home. But I still manage to scrap at night. 

The rest of my family go to bed quite early, between 8:30pm and 9:30pm usually. I am more of a night owl, and I am usually up until midnight or later. So that gives me a good 2-3 hours of "me time" most nights. 

This is me too.  I feel no guilt about doing things seasonally, if I so choose.  I figure I will catch up when I get to it.  

With scrapbooking, it is hard for me because I've got to put stuff away when I'm done.  My craft room doubles as my office and I'm working in there on the regular. So I either have to haul my stuff to the dining room or make sure I clean everything in my office up when I'm done.  Makes me not want to scrapbook unless I have a whole day set aside to do it.  And in the summer, unless we are having a really rainy day, it just doesn't happen so much.  

Sometimes I don’t. If being outside is a better thing right now then so be it.

I scrap in the evenings after work. Weekend afternoons when it’s too hot out or too cold depending on the season. I’m usually an early morning outside person.

Oh, since I work I still have a schedule and I do actually put blocks of time in my schedule for crafting. I label them creativity session lol