Scrapbook Satur…um, Thursday

Scrapbook Saturday

Some new layouts from me

for credits check out my gallery

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Final 365 pages

I completed the last page for my book. I was one page short so I had to make one more so there were no blank pages. I did a standard year in review page for it and then I put the cover & back page layouts together. The tricky part was coming up with 24 more photos that were not already in the book.

I know, I know…how could that be tricky with all those photos.

Yet somehow… finding photos that were not variations on the existing 365 photos was a challenge.

Which tells me that even my ‘regular’ photography was pretty much 365 driven.

I’ll be interested to see how many photos I have at the end of this year without 365 prompting me.

Oh, and yesterday? I went grocery shopping & took two photos of my full cart with my camera phone before I remembered I am not doing that this year.

The back cover

The front cover

The last page

Next up, finish the missing JYC pages, finish editing Oct & Nov photos & get them uploaded & then copy everything to my EHD and I’ll be ready for a new start.

Journal Your Christmas

I’m still way behind. I have prompts 6, 10, 12, 14-18, and 26-29 still to do but I am getting caught up slowly but I do finally have more layouts done than undone

Journal Your Christmas

Some more layouts. I have 13 out of 14 done. I’m waiting on some photos for a couple more.

Scrapbook Saturday

I’ve been busy this week. I scrapped 16 layouts!

16 layouts people!

That more than I scrapped in all of November & October combined!

13 of them were 365 layouts. Here are some of them

And some of them were actually Journal Your Christmas layouts! I now have 7.65 layouts done out of 17 prompts. Woohoo!

and here is the updated Day 5 with the newest advent items

What I did instead of what I ought to have done

Ok, so we are up to what? Prompt 13 I think today?

And I have what? 4.35 layouts done?

That is further behind than I intended to be by this point.

I sat down at this computer Saturday morning determined to use Rinda’s suggestion about prompt 9 and then do prompt 11 because I know exactly what I want it to be. Plus I‘d have time to tackle the boys about prompt 4 & at least get it started. Then I figured Sunday I’d work on prompt 10 & whatever prompt 12 was.

I ended up doing 3 complete layouts and have 8 others in various stages of completion from 50% to 90%.

But none of them were Journal Your Christmas layouts.

I sat down intending to them. Really I did. But then…the spirit moved me…and one thing I have learned is that if the spirit has a topic in mind there is no use trying to channel it to another topic, just go with it.

The spirit moved me to get caught up on my 365 Project layouts and since I last did a few back in April I had a lot of catching up to do. I am doing a layout for each of the 16 topics I photograph every month and then a two page spread of the remaining 13-15 photos. I’d set up about 5 of the topics and non of the months back in April. This weekend I set up another 7 of the topics, completed them with photos through November or December, but not all the journaling, picked a style for the remaining 4 (which are the photos of each of us) and 3 styles to rotate through the 12 months. I also managed nearly all of one page of January before 9pm Sunday when I called it quits. 

All I can say is thank god for year in review templates.

This is what I have completed so far:

The colors black

blue

and green

I’ve nearly finished the clones

and the books

and just have to add the text to the first page of january

This is very different from the last two photo books I have done. All the photos are scrapped this time. I’d initially intended to just scrap the themes & then photobook the rest but I think this will look more cohesive.

And since it’s only going to be 40 pages I can afford the blurb 12x12 hardback book

But man it is going to seem skinny beside the other 2.

I’m hoping the spirit will be satisfied with my progress on this soon & move me to get back to the JYC layouts.

JYC layouts

I’m behind as usual, but not as behind as I could be.

I’m still waiting on some weather besides ‘cold’ for prompt 2, though I am inclined to start a layout for it because it doesn’t look like much else is coming our way anytime soon.

Prompt 4 is still hanging out there waiting for inspiration.

I had a great idea for prompt 6 last night, but failed to make a note of it and now can’t recall what it was.

My idea for prompt 9 requires input from the boys & getting them to focus on non-Pokemon things is a challenge, unless it’s Star Wars Monopoly, their new favorite game.

I’ve covered prompt 10 fairly well in my past 2 albums so I’m considering the other suggestions & have a half page done about how I procrastinate wrapping because I really don’t enjoy it.

But having done a page on how I don’t sent out cards because they stress me out I worry about this becoming a “Why I don’t like the holidays” album, so I am not sure about that page.

Here are two I have completed

Prompt 7

and prompt 8

I had to do a page about my beloved Star Wars ornaments. I have one in each of the previous albums as well. Fortunately I have enough of them they don’t seem repetitive…well, to me anyway.

And the progress on prompt 5

Journal Your Christmas

I’ve only managed 2.25 pages so far. Prompts 4 and 6 are not coming into focus and I am waiting for there to be some weather besides ‘cold’, which is impossible to photograph, to do the second.

Here are prompts 1 & 3

The .25 of a layout  is from prompt 5. This is the first year we have been able to have a non-Lego City theme calendar. I’ve decided to take a photo of every item in this years one.  So this layout can’t be completed until late on the 24th.

Our tree is up and Elvin brought us our new ornaments this morning.

Look for a post gushing about my beloved ornaments soon.

Scrapbook Saturday

I’ve had a hard time scrapping much since school got out, what with DH not being home much & the boys underfoot constantly & then going on vacation twice. But this week I was able to sit down and get some work done.

For complete credits & more layouts please visit my gallery at SSD.

Scrapbook Saturday

I didn’t do much scrapping in May. I lacked time & motivation but I am getting back into it this month.

Here are some of the layouts I have done so far:

We set up the pool

 

My then current book pile

 

This was based on my yogurt post

 

This was for a challenge to use roygbiv in a layout