I love to scrapbook! When I was young I had my own photo album with the sticky pages and I would save photos and stuff in it. I made sure the pages we organized and all the pictures were arranged in pretty yet symmetrical ways. So now go forward at least 25 years and I have at least 30 albums documenting the lives of my family. Yes it takes forever, yes the eco-friendly girl is wasting paper (I do use all my scraps) no I am not caught up on all my photos, no I never will be. Why do I like it? I love photos, and I love telling a story with them. I can't write worth much so I tell my life story through crapbooks. It is also a great creative outlet for me. Plus I have always loved shopping for pens and paper. (I am on a first name basis with all the staff at Staples, and they have given me a personal shopper who calls me about once a month to check in on me.) I guess Scrapbooking is just the logical choice for me.
I am preparing for a 12 hour "Crop" and while going through what is done and what needs to be done Ryana brings me her baby album and asks why there are only 3 pages in her book. There are more pictures in her dance album then her baby book, and she has only done two dance recitals. I realized the problem, I have almost no pictures of her before age 1. I am sure I took them, just don't know where they are.
In 12 hours I should be able to finish 12/2 page layouts with no trouble. It has taken weeks of prep to get ready so the crop is more like a 36 hour crop once you count all the organizing, shopping and photo printing in adition to the actuall finishing fo the pages. I will up date this after the crop to let you know how much I got done and how many of them will go into Ryana's baby book.
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Wow I want to be you! What a good mom you are to document your kids lives.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to post some of your cute pages, I'd love to copy them, oopps I meant see them!