Scrapbooking Update

I've had the opportunity to get quite a bit done while here in SB. I (obviously) didn't bring all my supplies but enough to create some pages and get started on others. I actually like working with limited supplies -- less choice sometimes makes for quicker pages and more creativity! I'm not one of those people who likes to hoard supplies, I love to cut into new patterned paper and use up my cardstock and other fun embellishments. It actually depresses me to have a lot of supplies sitting around... I guess I'm weird that way.

Anyway, here's a page I made the other day. This was fun to make as I don't usually use gray but it was perfect for the photos! The page came together really quickly using my CM Snow Maker punch (put pink paper under the gray CTMH cardstock where the punches were), some misc rubons, and a black photo mat I had.

One project I've made some headway into is putting all the "portrait" photos I've collected over the years onto pages. Previously they were just randomly stuck into page protectors with limited journalling and with not much rhyme or reason. So now I have them divided up -- the ones of the kids (you know, the Sears portraits when they are 6 months old & Olan Mills when they are 3, etc.) will go in their respective albums, the ones of our family (most of these are the free 8x10 given to us when the church directory is updated) will go into the family album, and I am creating a new album of extended family. This one (the extended family album) is kind of spotty but I hope to add to it and make it a more comprehensive album. (Recently after a family event my younger dd asked me "who is that?" when looking at a photo of one of my uncles and I realized I haven't done the greatest job of documenting our extended family for them...)

I have also begun to fill out the kids' albums, realizing of course that I will never be "caught up" (this isn't even a goal, no worries there!) but that I'd like to have a representation of their years at home in their books... right now I have birth-age 5 complete (two 9x9 books) and two more 12x12 books awaiting pages for age 5-18 or so.

Then I have three more 12x12 books for family pages (since 1983). These are filling up bit by bit -- I haven't yet figured out what years they will cover. But there's plenty of room in there for now.

I also want to make some pages just about me and/or dh (our younger years, wedding, years before kids...), those will probably go into a separate album that I haven't bought yet.

Other 12x12 books are event-related: one for Christmas, one (complete) for our trip West in 2005, two for our time in the U.K. in 2006, one for my parents' 50th anniversary celebration in Dec 2007.

And then I have a few misc albums and mini albums. These are ok but I'm sorta fond of the large 12x12s... will probably stick with those in general.

So now you're updated about my hobby! See, I can be wordy about some things! :-) (That's a joke. I'm hugely wordy in person. That's why I don't have much to say here, I think.) (Did you ever notice that often people who are great/lengthy blog writers are more circumspect in person and people who never shut up in person don't have much to say online?) (Well, that probably doesn't always follow but sometimes it does.) ('Nuf said on that, I'm starting to get wordy.)