September 27
Photo Albums – Week 4
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If you’ve read my Thursday posts the last three weeks, you know I’ve been in agony over organizing my photos. Last week, I decided to pick a topic, write down my stories and create an album. I chose “School Memories” as my subject because the pictures are easy to identify and the timeline is very clear (Kindergarten-12th Grade). Here are some of the supplies I’ve gathered to get this project started:
Pandigital Photo Scanner
I love the idea of scanning photos. I can create a digital copy of the photos I’m going to use and, more importantly, copies of photos I don’t want to use and would like to get rid of but…I might want them later.
8″ x 8″ Album
I decided to go with the smaller 8″ x 8″ album because I don’t have a lot of photos for this project and this size seems more manageable for a first project.
Coordinated Paper
Whenever I look down the paper aisle of my local craft store, I get lightheaded because there are so many choices. I decided to get a coordinated paper pack from Stampin’ Up! so I wouldn’t have to worry about finding things that go together. The paper pack I selected is called “Storytime.”
Daily Inspiration
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can’t separate them. They’re wedded.
Henry Miller
Oh, I love that paper! Must…look…away! Paper is a weakness of mine — I know, it’s crazy. I can’t wait to see what you do with your pictures!
Fab papers. The main thing is to enjoy your scrapbooking. Looking forward to seeing your LOs.
Oh dis is excitin’! Great choice to use an 8×8. Sometimes da 12×12 can be overwhelming.
I freakin’ love da paper and as Bunny’s mom said…paper is also a weakness of da kerazy lady.
Puddles
Just my opinion… Even if you scan photos don’t get rid of them. Only multi-thousand dollar scanners truly capture the photo, and really good scans are huge files. You would need a big drive to store them. In my years as a designer I’ve had 2 drives fail where the data was completely lost (even having computer experts try to recover it).
Very interesting. I did not know this. Thanks, Amy.
This topic still really stresses me. LOL I have a huge box of photos that I need to figure out what to do with when I get home.
“Other End of the Leash” is a good behavior book, but also entertaining. Anything by that author, Patricia McConnell is good.
Oh I wish I could be this organized! I love that photo scanner!
Sounds like you’re off to a really good start with organizing! I know what you mean about wanting to hold on to things, but letting them go can be really liberating too…scanning is a great idea.
That paper looks nice! Isn’t it amazing how easy it is to collect TONS of pictures these days? I’m sure the photos of your school days would be a much more manageable number.