Scrapbooking... The never-ending battle
Throughout my life I have collected things...beenie babies, Happy Meal toys, Star Wars Episode One figures, baseball cards, report cards, papers, pictures, awards, and the list goes on and on.
I have this urge to keep it all, but I don't want to. So trying to be constructive and preserve some memories... Like the note card that came on the flowers my brothers sent me when I was elected to the homecoming court my senior year... I am trying to scrapbook everything.
It looks like a war zone in my room. Besides not being completely unpacked and having boxes everywhere, I now have piles of papers and pictures everywhere too. I decided to work on scrapbooking all of my soccer memories first. I can't even explain how much stuff I have for soccer alone. I then decided that I should theme that section of scrapbooking and do all sports. So this includes the year I played basketball when I was about 10 and all the dance classes and pictures of me dancing and who can forget random horseback riding lesson pictures. I'd say I'm looking at roughly 50 to 70 pages for this one section alone. That is just how much stuff I have.
Then there are pictures and momentous of me growing up, birthday parties, birthday cards, graduation (HS and college), Germany (YFU 6-week trip in HS and the semester abroad in college), family trips to PA, sorority stuff, newspaper clippings, and ahhhhhhhhhh!
Then there is the creation of one scrapbook page. I want them to look creative and fun, so that involves getting scrapbook stickers as well as looking through magazines and cutting out fun phrases and words as well as ads that can be used as backgrounds on certain pages. I found some funny soccer ads that worked really well when I arranged some soccer pictures on it. This just takes a lot of time. I had no idea when I began, what kind of project this would end up being.
This is turning in to the never-ending battle. Me against mounds and mounds of paper.
posted by THEonlyGOALIE @ 1:45 PM
2 Comments:
Be thankful you have those mounds and mounds.
SO many of our friends have nothing to mark their lives.
No reciept from Rally's prior to 8/29
No high school diploma
No photos of a grandmother
all washed away.
You are very lucky, goalie
Okay, here's the deal with scrapbooking. Don't make it into a big deal. First, go out and get the book Sketches by Becky Higgins and Creating Keepsakes (you can find it at a scrapbooking store)...Second, steal the layouts out of that book. She has 2 volumes and what I've basically figured out is that if she wants to do all the creative work of telling me where to put my titles, pictures and journaling...I'm gonna let her. Less for me to do. I just have to pick the pictures and the paper. Another trick I've learned is to only buy paper for the layout you're doing. I have bought so much paper over the years that I never end up using. Now, I go to the store with an idea of the layout I'm doing, maybe take a few of the pictures for it so I can see colors and I get the stuff for that layout. It's so much easier! PIck one area to work on then move to the next. I have all my most recent stuff caught up (well, almost)...then I'm going to worry about the past stuff that I have stored away and my husbands work stuff.
I hope this has helped some. Oh, and I don't do my stuff on the computer, at least not the whole thing, it feels less personal to me that way. I'll use the computer to alter pics or when I don't feel like seeing my awful handwriting staring back at me from the page.
If you eve have questions, let me know...it's a fun hobby!
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