Overwhelmed.
Friday, April 11, 2008 at 04:26AM Oh my gosh. I waded into our basement earlier today and have to tell you that I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. I so need to sort and purge down there (have been working my way through the house slowly but surely since January). In particular, though, what overwhelms me is that this isn't a project where simply taking the coats that not longer fit to Goodwill or something will suffice. The stuff that's in the basement needs to be purged, yes. But what will remain is boxes (and boxes) of stuff that I know I want to scrapbook...ticket stubs and love letters and maps and brochures and programs from our lives before kids. On the one hand, I'm so glad that even before I scrapbooked I had the mentality of saving and documenting things...so I do have all sorts of stuff down there to work with. On the other hand, I have all sorts of stuff down there to work with. ;)
So, though I'm not feeling quite up to tackling the basement quite yet, here's a question for you. When going back to document stuff from before you scrapbooked, do you use the photos you have (the 4x6 prints from a film camera) and just make things work...maybe even with a general design that you just follow throughout a themed album?
Or do you take the time to go back to the negatives and reprint some of the photos that deserve a bit bigger treatment and maybe resize some of the others to make smaller prints so that you can scrapbook the layouts more like you actually scrapbook now? (Fortunately, I do actually have all my negatives organized chronologically in nice negative sleeves.)
Any and all thoughts welcome & appreciated!!
Oh! And, I'm going to an all day crop on Saturday (HOORAY!) but haven't even begun to prep anything for it. Ack!! Wish me luck! :)
Reader Comments (1)
i have been doing a lot of layouts lately with older photos ... just to get them taken care of and in the albums. i just use the photos "as is" ... crop them when i can to fit lots on the page. i do have a hard time with some of them ... because they're not great photos. and then i don't think my layouts are as cute ... because the photos aren't like what i have now. but i just try and let go of thinking all my layouts have to be perfect. some of them, i truely just want to get in the album ... and not have that stack of photos laying around. so i do simple layouts ... which is far from my usual style. but it works! if you check my blog (scroll down to earlier this week), i just posted a few layouts i did that were so simple ... but felt good to get them done. good luck!!!