I mentioned i'd be tidying up my Ready-to-go file.I planned on doing that yesterday - but best laid plans and all that.
My family likes to eat so i had to go to the grocery store .....
and then i had a little visit with my sister (and nephews) before they left today.
So this afternoon was the day to clean up that file and do a little more organizing.
Here's my RTG file - all tidied up. I had some StoreInStyle folders (they're big enough for 12x12 paper/cardstock) so i used those for dividers. I have slipped some stuff into the folders themselves (small items with no place to go kinda things - like movie ticket stubs). In between each section are those large ziplocs filled with items for a layout or series of layouts on a particular topic/event. If i have the photos i put them in the ziploc too. And when i have time i can pull out a bag and add paper, cardstock and embellishments. When the bag has all the elements - then its truly RTG!
So now at least thats back to being organized only now its even better - with dividers!
While i was on a roll I thought i'd organize all the finished layouts I have but have not put into albums as yet. That was a pretty big stack of layouts since I've made so much progress since I started this Suzy blog.
I had the stack in a pizza box. The box was overflowing and I've been asking my son (who works for a pizza chain) to bring me some more boxes. Well last night he finally remembered - which is good cos he will be leaving for school this weekend! He brought me about 10 boxes. My cat, Frankie is here posing with the boxes. I put some of the boxes together and got to work sorting the layouts.
And here they are. All sorted. When I finally decide what albums i want to put these in, they'll be ready to go. In the meantime I have a few empty, unconstructed boxes to to use as these fill up.
While i'm at it I thought i would show you my photo storage. This is most of my photos. There is another box of various and sundry photos but these are the bulk of the photos. I often wonder what I'll be doing with these boxes when I have finished putting all the pics into scrapbooks!
I'm wondering how does everyone else store their photos until they scrapbook them? I know some put them in albums (the kind with the divided up pages). How do you store yours?
I'm wondering how does everyone else store their photos until they scrapbook them? I know some put them in albums (the kind with the divided up pages). How do you store yours?
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(Picture me doing a dance...or not, if it's too scary...singing,"go Tracy, go Tracy, go, go, go Tracy!)
The RTG file looks amazing. The pizza boxes are a cool idea, and lucky for you Frankie was there to supervise. And I finally got to see your craft room (well, a little bit of it, anyway!)
Wow...lots of photos. Your children are just a bit older than mine, and we are not so good about remembering our camera. I do have a couple of photo boxes like yours of stored and organized photos. They are filled with extras after I had already put copies in each of our albums (mine& Doug's, Julia's, and Kathryn's)and scrapbooked that month. I'm saving them for when the girls need baby photos for school projects, etc. and I won't have to pay to do more copies. There is a lot of money tied up in developing all those pics! I am trying to be smarter about it now. My current plan is to develop only the photos I want to put in the respective albums. When that is done, then I will choose my favorites from that month, and develop only those to scrapbook. I will probably still end up with an extra here or there that I decide won't work on the layout, but that does not happen too often. Right now I am still scrapbooking each month of their life (I am at Jan. 2004...they were 19 months old at that time), but once I get to ~ age 4 I'll probably skip a month here or there (especially since I know there are whole months when we never got the camera out...we are such bad parents!) The first 12 months I did each month AND some major events. But they change so fast when they are small, and I wanted to capture as much of it as I could back then. Now, they don't change so much from month to month. Does that work with Suzy philosophy?
I wonder why I'm not a scrapper? When you think about it it's kinda strange that I'm not. I love the way you organize everything. It's so impressive. I REALLY need to organize all my photographs and all my mom's, grandma's, dad's and aunt's photographs. I've got all the valuable family photos which is actually kinda scary.
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