ChrisnSteph
<font color=purple>Ask me about Ben Franklin's bat
- Joined
- Jan 20, 2003
I finally DID IT!!!! I spent the last 5 days, working late into the night, and I finally organized over 7 years worth of pictures!! WOO HOO! I'm very excited about this, because I have been procrastinating for years and my picture clutter was just getting worse and worse. I had years of pictures stored in dozens of different boxes, bags and bins. After several moves, kids, vacations and whatnot, everything was such a mess. I couldn't bring myself to scrap because my pictures had no rhyme or reason, and everything was so mixed together. I found the easiest thing to do (with my dh's help) was to gather all the pictures I could find, and just make a huge pile on the floor. It was such a disaster, but sometimes you gotta make a mess to clean a mess! We sorted everything by year, and I put each year in its own photo box. I gathered all the 8x10's, annual school pictures and other odd sized stuff and I put those into large envelopes, then I labeled the envelopes and sorted those by year. Any pictures of people and events before I met my dh, I put into it's own box. All old childhood and family photos I put into their own box. Each of my kids has their baby pictures - up to around age one or so - in a box. We've gone on three cruises where I took tons of pictures, so each cruise has it's own box. My plan is to start working on their baby albums, then start scrapping everything else by year, at least until I can get somewhat caught up. Whiile I was at it, I also organized all my scrap supplies, albums and the pages I've done so far. It took quite a bit of time and was LOT of work, but so worth it. I'm so motivated now, I can hardly wait to get to get started! I just had to share!