finish my scrapbooking projects

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I’ve had this goal for a long time and have made little, if any, progress, so here is what I am doing in 2009 to reach this goal: I aim to finish scanning 600 photos, some of which will be integral to this project. I aim to organize all the family mementos by family member and get acid-free boxes for each person’s items. Doing that will help me to find items I want to use in the scrapbooks. And finally, I aim to do 4 scrapbook pages (one for each of the 4 books I am working on) per month from May through December. If I stick to this plan, I will have 8 pages done for each book by 2010, and that momentum should allow me to actually finish the books in time to give them for Christmas 2010.

Well, this past fall, I did go to a scrapbooking weekend and did all our vacation pictures in a Disney album. It was wonderful. I’ve also been ‘collecting’ other pictures to add to an album as soon as I get them all together.

cant even count how many scrapbooks i have started and havent finished

okay, so I gave up on this and suddenly had an urge to start up again.

Here’s the progess: I do have a scrapbooking room that is the room above the garage and somewhat removed from the rest of the house—advantage is that it is a bit quieter than the rest of the house; disadvantage is that it is cooler/warmer than the rest of the house (although today it is perfect temperature wise). I spent about the past 2 hours moving the Xmas stuff to one side of the room and just plain ole sorting out the rest of the stuff that had accumlated in the room. My next objective is to start sorting things into Family, Ahren and Sean piles. I have a good couple of years worth of stuff to get caught up, so this will take a while.

that I will have any discretionary time to work on this. I’m not giving up forever, just right now.

I’m really getting in to scrapbooking now. UKScrappers is a great site and I’ve meet loads of lovely local people.

I need to make a list of steps so that I have mini-goals. I really need to get these done. I haven’t even finished scanning in all of the photos I will need, and I should really return my grandfather’s photo albums to him (not that he’s asking for them, or ever looks at them).

I’ve completed my first Albulm and my sisters is about 50% done

I’m getting there slowly and have done most of the Christmas ones and have started Emily birthday present