I've been going through many supplies and really
considering if I need or want it. Amazing how much I have accumulated over the
last 12 years of paper crafting! I have been selling a few things here and
there, but I really need to move a lot of stuff. I'm seriously considering
having a scrapbook yard sale in the spring. Yup, a tent popped up in my
driveway with a bunch of tables kind of scrapbook yard sale. Stay tuned if you
happen to be hanging out in the Finger Lakes when the time comes!
All of this cleaning and organizing has made me really want to get photos of my computers and printed so they can go into albums. Here's the problem with traditional and digital scrapbooking. Traditional takes soooooo long and I never feel like I get anywhere. I guess having around 100,000 digital photos will do that. It's been suggested that I stop taking photos by several people. I think they're crazy! I'm too busy traveling to stop taking photos!
All of this cleaning and organizing has made me really want to get photos of my computers and printed so they can go into albums. Here's the problem with traditional and digital scrapbooking. Traditional takes soooooo long and I never feel like I get anywhere. I guess having around 100,000 digital photos will do that. It's been suggested that I stop taking photos by several people. I think they're crazy! I'm too busy traveling to stop taking photos!
I really do enjoy digital scrapbooking, but I'm
still learning and trying to get Photoshop all figured out is time consuming. I
just want to get things DONE! And I'm starting to have a hard time remembering
where many of my photos were taken. Time to get a move on so I decided to start
exploring other options. One included actually printing photos and just putting
them in photo albums. I didn't really like that option. And then....
I stumbled onto Project Life. I am not interested
in the daily, weekly, or monthly thing. I honestly don't care what I had for
dinner on October 3, 2010 nor do I care what the weather was or what clothes I
was wearing. It seems like lots of people do care about those things so good
for them I say! That aspect just isn't for me. I've already got a zillion
photos that need a home.
This brings me to my current project of the week.
I started really organizing all of my digital photos. I have them in like 20
million folders on two computers and an external hard drive. Some dated. Most
not. It's an incredibly time consuming, but I am making major
headway. I've been taking digital photos for 11 years now. Who knew? I sure
didn't. While sorting and labeling the photos, I have been uploading all the
same folders to Shutterfly for printing! Yay for printing!
They had a lovely sale a week or so ago where
photos were 40% off and the shipping was free because I spent a few dollars. Ok
so I printed 1,379 photos. That's barely a dent in what I have. The photos I
printed were purposely chosen to bring with me to Crop on the Cape. Why so
many? Well, I'm not bringing all of them. I have a weekend crop the following
weekend as well.
So what will I be doing with my mountain of
photos? Pocket scrapbooking! Yup, you read that right. What's pocket
scrapbooking? It's like Project Life and traditional scrapbooking got together
and had a party. You simply take the pocket page protectors and place your
photos, filler cards, journaling cards, memorabilia, etc. in the
individual pockets. Each page protector has several individual pockets in them.
They come in a variety of configurations with different sized pockets for your
items to be places vertical or horizontal.
More about pocket scrapbooking tomorrow!
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