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[myurbandream]

guys, i finally actually started my scrapbook/photo album today. WOOHOO!!!

that shit is hard.

i made two pages - well, technically neither of them are finished, but more on that later. anyway: page the first, a field trip in middle school, took an hour, partly because i went to slide the finished page in at the end only to discover that the page sleeves may be 12" wide, but that doesn't mean they comfortably fit a 12" piece of paper. i had to take the first one half-way apart and trim it down to 11.75". and then the second page, some high school photos, only took me about 40 minutes to do, because i was prepared that time!

and actually neither of them are DONE done, because i didn't put any title/captions/narrative on the pages. i don't have any alphabet stickers OR any nice markers to make text with. so i still have to go back and add that to both of them.

i still have a metric ass-ton of photos to go through from high school and early college - not counting the ones on facebook, which i started using about freshman year in place of hard-copy prints. also not counting all our wedding photos and memorabilia that i kept.

i think my motto from now on is "at least one a day". this feels distinctly like nanowrimo.

Comments

[pronker]

That's great that you've begun. I've found scrapbooking to put a great deal of things into perspective.

[jen-chan13.livejournal.com]

oh, hey, you've done scrapbooking before? what kinds of things did you put in? so far mine has been closer to a photo album than the kind of scrapbook that you see on magazine covers and such. any tips for a noob?

also, your icon is TEH CUTE.

Glad you like the icon - I have so many and rotate them.

[pronker]

I made one for Youngest and gave it to him on his 18th birthday. It had the stencils and lettering that scrapbooking shops sell, such as for his baseball team activities and such, going all the way back to his very first picture when he was 1 hour old. What was daunting was boiling everything down to maybe 3 pages per year; it did have photos and such things as report cards and little things he cut out at church. As I mentioned, distilling each year, picking out the highlights, was the brainbuster.

The family album is more a traditional photo album. What makes it tough, ha, is getting all those photos in order and then discovering another packet in another drawer! I could use a secretary.

Re: Glad you like the icon - I have so many and rotate them.

[jen-chan13.livejournal.com]

re: discovering more photos - i have already stumbled upon that problem! my hardcopy prints are all sorted by whatever roll was taken to the store, but i must have got prints from multiple people's cameras, because i keep opening another packet of prints and finding more photos from the same event!

the challenge for me is that i want to keep every good photo - already the memories from high school are fading, so it pains me not to include everything i can - but it's a challenge to fit more than a few on a page. so i have to pare them down; i don't think i want to do multiple pages of the same event.

although now that i think about it, i'm going to have several pages from my wedding, so maybe i shouldn't worry about it...

Re: Glad you like the icon - I have so many and rotate them.

[pronker]

A different milestone, a wedding is, says Yoda. That's it, we discover our focus as we go along. And I wouldn't worry about it, either! Lots of scrapbooks out there to choose and you can have more than one, who says you can't?

Re: Glad you like the icon - I have so many and rotate them.

[jen-chan13.livejournal.com]

TRUE! wise, you are. :D