Did you take lots of photos over Christmas and New Year?

Where are they now?
Are they sitting on your phone?

Did you know that this generation don’t have photo’s. We take them, we have them on our phones, we may even transfer them to our computer to share on Social Media. But then our phone die’s, its lost or stolen. The computer crashes or we accidentally deleat them.
Here’s what I do…..at the end of each day or week depending on how many photos I’ve taken . I take them off my phone and put them onto my computer, I then sort and store them into a file for that year which then contains a file for each month. As photos are taken I then put them into those files. That way at least I know what month they were taken. I get rid of any photo I don’t want and print up the best.
So now I have some printed copies and at the end of each month I save whats on my computer to my hard drive.
Now what to do with those printed photo’s?
That’s easy….they go into my Project Life or Memory Keeping album. By working on it bit by bit, its not so hard at the end of year trying to catch up, mind you I have lots of other years to catch up.
So what is a Project Life or Memory Keeping Album?

Its a pocket page album, where you slip photo’s into pockets and add decorated cards to fill empty pockets or add journaling cards. It’s simple and a lot of fun.
This year I have decided to make it the year of Memory Keeping and I would like you to join me in keeping all those wonderful memories alive.
I will be holding classes at my place on the last Friday of each month where I will help you, show you new products and have lots of fun along the way.
Check out my Facebook page for all my upcoming Classes and Events.

What did I get up to last weekend……….

Last weekend I was invited to join a great group of women to share a weekend of

“SCRAPBOOKING”

Haven’t done what is now called by lots of scrappers as “Traditional Scrapbooking” for a long time.

We went to a lovely little place in the Blue Mountains called Kurajong, where we stayed at a place called

Merroo Christian Centre.

Click on the photo to see there great web site and hear the amazing Bell Birds.

As a child driving with my parents through this area I remember stopping and/or being told to wind down the windows to listen for the Bell Birds.

Waking up to them each morning was beautiful and brought back great memories.

So……what did I do while there.

Now, this was not a Stampin’ Up! event…..but I tried to stay using Stampin’ Up! products.

We were given some different challenges and the first one I did was this one.

and here is my take on this layout..

This photo was taken on my sisters farm in Lue, near Mudgee.

Here it is along with the Project Life page to go with it, I made my own cards to match.

In the next Challenge page we were given a bag of goodies and had to use 2 items on our page…

everything thing in my bag was girly and I have “BOYS”

…the lovely Sheena suggested I turn the button over and use the other side.

The “button and word Cherish” came from my bag, the papers are discontinued Stampin’ Up!

Christmas paper and the floral print comes from the current “All Year Long” Project Life cards

This is a few pages that I completed.

Scrapbooking doesn’t have to be just “Traditional” or just “Project Life”.

Sometimes there are those special moments/photo’s that need to be highlighted and Traditional Scrapping works well.

Have fun with what you are doing.

(By the way I completed over 23 pages…whooo Hooo!, 2009 album almost completed)

Where have I been?

Sorry I haven’t forgotten you….

I have been traveling through time.

HOW?

If you have seen my previous post you would have seen that my eldest son

has turned 21 and because of his party I was going through some old photos

and found some that I had always meant to scrap or get them into albums.

Well that was almost over a month ago and since then I have been getting lost in time.

I have done nothing except go through photos, sort photos, talk about them with family members and have now competed

2008 (unless I find more photo’s…LOL- there’s always more, as back then I photographed everything)

Here are some of my completed pages

1st January 2008

March 2008

June 2008

Last day of 2008

This is just a very few of the pages completed, in all I think I did 26 page or 52 pages back and front.

There is no way I could have done that years ago when I did scrapbooking…sometimes it would take me a week to do one page.

I still love that form of Memory Keeping (Traditional Scrapbooking) but I would only pick out 2-3 photos of one event.

At a later date I will go back and highlight a photo, as Stampin’ Up! also sell 12 x 12 pages.

Here I have used 4 – 10 photos on one event.

The hardest thing for me was trying to remember what was happening in all the photo’s and when they were taken.

At least I had documented them into folders and put onto disc’s, which helped sort them.

I store my photo’s in folders on a hard drive and which are in folders by YEARS, then by DATE and EVENT.

I run a Project Life Class on the last Friday of each month…

contact me to find out more.

Last weekend we celebrated my eldest son’s 21st……

It was a great night and thanks to a great lot of friends and family, it will be very memorable.

We framed some photo’s taken of Aaron through out the years and hung them on the back fence.

But in finding these photos I went through

many photo albums that I had temporarily put the photo’s with the plain of scrapbooking them.

That never happened, like most of us I’d say.

When going through the albums I came across photo’s I had taken in 2008. We had moved into a caravan while renovating our house.

This had taken place about a week before Aaron’s 13th Birthday.

So its about time I did something about it……so I’ve made a start and here are the first 2 pages…

One Word of advise….get your photos done now don’t wait until the memories are fading…..