what you're asking me
Hi folks. There are a bunch of random questions out there and I'd like to get back with you on a few of those today. If you have asked me a really pressing question in previous Comments, and I've missed it, feel free to ask me in the Comments for this post. We'll play a little bit of catch-up. If I don't respond to your question, I either don't know the answer or I simply don't have time to answer them all (the latter is likely).
Q: What album is that on the cover of the new issue?
A: It's the We R Memory Keepers 3-ring leather binder. My favorite for our family albums & all the kids' albums too.
On a funny note, the picture they chose for the March issue cover shot is so funny to us, because Claire is so proud of her tongue and how she can touch her nose with it. So it's really sweet that she happened to be doing that when the kids were looking at the scrapbook during this photo shoot. What you can't tell, is that Porter was actually laughing so hard in the picture too. There were some really silly pictures on that layout. : )
Q: What camera do you use?
A: I shoot with the Nikon D90 (made the switch from Canon because this camera shoots video in amazing SLR quality) and I also keep my point & shoot in my bag at all times. That one is the Canon Powershot SD900.
Q: How did you hang your Christmas cards?
A: Scotch tape. Not a single bit of paint has peeled off over the past few years. The paint on our walls is Dunn-Edwards (and the color is Oak Harbor).
Q: What are your favorite home fragrances?
A: I have liked Gold Canyon candles for years, but I've recently found myself experimenting with different ways of making our home smell yummy. One is melting blocks of wax with products from Scentsy and another is burning oils from The Body Shop or Bath & Body. What's the fragrance in our home right now? A mixture of 2 oils from The Body Shop: Satsuma & Summer Fruit.
Q: What do you do with all the Christmas cards you get?
A: In our on-going chronological family albums, it's been a tradition of mine to display all the pictures from family & friends on a handful of layouts each Christmastime. As for the cards ... I throw them away (actually, we recycle). Gasp! I know. But it's the truth. Here's a visual of what those layouts look like.
So here's the thing. Since I've transformed my approach to our family scrapbooks (from scrapbooking layouts of themes & events to the Project 365 concept) ... I actually have no idea what I'm doing with the Christmas card pictures from loved ones now. I'm just sitting on that one I guess. Haven't prioritized figuring it out just yet. In the meantime, here are the pictures from 2007 & 2008 ... waiting for me to do something.
Any ideas? What are YOU doing with the pictures you get? And PS - I will have to show you what I do with the baby, graduation, and wedding annoncements we receive. That's a little system in itself.
Q: What album is that on the cover of the new issue?
A: It's the We R Memory Keepers 3-ring leather binder. My favorite for our family albums & all the kids' albums too.
On a funny note, the picture they chose for the March issue cover shot is so funny to us, because Claire is so proud of her tongue and how she can touch her nose with it. So it's really sweet that she happened to be doing that when the kids were looking at the scrapbook during this photo shoot. What you can't tell, is that Porter was actually laughing so hard in the picture too. There were some really silly pictures on that layout. : )
Q: What camera do you use?
A: I shoot with the Nikon D90 (made the switch from Canon because this camera shoots video in amazing SLR quality) and I also keep my point & shoot in my bag at all times. That one is the Canon Powershot SD900.
Q: How did you hang your Christmas cards?
A: Scotch tape. Not a single bit of paint has peeled off over the past few years. The paint on our walls is Dunn-Edwards (and the color is Oak Harbor).
Q: What are your favorite home fragrances?
A: I have liked Gold Canyon candles for years, but I've recently found myself experimenting with different ways of making our home smell yummy. One is melting blocks of wax with products from Scentsy and another is burning oils from The Body Shop or Bath & Body. What's the fragrance in our home right now? A mixture of 2 oils from The Body Shop: Satsuma & Summer Fruit.
Q: What do you do with all the Christmas cards you get?
A: In our on-going chronological family albums, it's been a tradition of mine to display all the pictures from family & friends on a handful of layouts each Christmastime. As for the cards ... I throw them away (actually, we recycle). Gasp! I know. But it's the truth. Here's a visual of what those layouts look like.
So here's the thing. Since I've transformed my approach to our family scrapbooks (from scrapbooking layouts of themes & events to the Project 365 concept) ... I actually have no idea what I'm doing with the Christmas card pictures from loved ones now. I'm just sitting on that one I guess. Haven't prioritized figuring it out just yet. In the meantime, here are the pictures from 2007 & 2008 ... waiting for me to do something.
Any ideas? What are YOU doing with the pictures you get? And PS - I will have to show you what I do with the baby, graduation, and wedding annoncements we receive. That's a little system in itself.
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Becky, you are the BEST! Thank you so much for addressing so many of our questions! I have been saving the Xmas photos for years. I plan on doing the same thing you have been doing...
Can't wait to see what you do with your announcements!
Thanks so much!
Hi Becky - I love your blog and am still having so much fun with my Project 365 photo-taking!
I made a mini-album for my holiday cards that I can add to over a few years - here's a link:
http://inspirationeverywhere.blogspot.com/2009/01/its-weekend-yeayyyyy-and-later-today-is.html
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Do you have any cute ideas or something you have done for signs on the kids bedroom doors. I have seen "scrapbook-like" artist's canvases (small ones) done...do you have anything?
Jill, Aurora, IL
Did you ever post a recipe using peanut satay sauce? I can't find it in your recipe section but I thought I remember seeing it.
Thanks!
hey becky...i just wanted to THANK YOU for opening up your life to all of us here in blogland--i'm sure it is difficult at times to make yourself feel vulnerable :)
and it may be a little late in the game, but couldn't you start incorporating your received christmas cards into your christmas album (you showed it to us in a video clip once)?? i decided that it was such a good idea that i'm starting our own christmas album...& am going to put the photos we receive from friends/family each year on just a couple of pages following "our" christmas page :) just a thought...
happy almost-weekend!
Hi Becky! I'm a huge fan and so excited to have found your blog. I noticed that you said you recycle your plain Christmas cards. I also save the photos and don't want to keep the blank cards. But, years ago, I found a charity that uses old Christmas cards. It's a children's hospital that has the kids make crafts and new cards from the pictures on the front. Then, they use them for fundraisers. They only want the front flap of the card and ask that the back flap be removed. But, it's a great way to put the cards to use a 2nd time! Here's the info...
St. Judes Ranch for Children
100 St. Jude Street
Boulder City, NV 89005
800-492-3562
I have those same baggies full of pictures. I'm hoping you'll (no pressure) come up with a yearly Christmas card preservation kit. Maybe it's a mini album each year, or a kit with several layouts available that go into one large 12x12 album that is only for yearly Christmas cards - each year using different colors and embellishments (kind of like the school year's kit). It wouldn't need to be anything fancy, just quick, easy, and cute!
I remember you having a special xmas scrapbook... maybe they could go in there??
How about those littlwe wallet sized school pictures that people give you of their children - what do you do with those? I can't bear to throw them out but I can't figure out a layout idea for them either...
Hi Becky!
Please tell us what you do to kid-proof your scrap supplies/ area. Also , can you show us some more of Crew's baby kit album pages. I'm using my kit to do my little guy's 2nd year album.
Thanks for sharing so much of yourself Becky. You are so REAL!
My system for christmas cards is very simple (or lazy)....because I can't think of a better way. :) I just use my crop-a-dile and punch a hole in the top left corner of all the cards and bind them with a keyring. I tie ribbons and cute stuff on that too. Then I put them in a basket with cards from years past. It is fun to compare photos of long lost relatives.
For my christmas cards, birth announcements etc, I keep then in a 12X12 WE R Memories album. I keep it very simple, very little embelishments and I try to use up my paper scraps. The only thing I buy for these is the album. It is a fun way to keep up with my friends and family while watching how they all have grown and changed over the years.
Becky,
Can you share any advice for those of us who want to do more photo shoots for friends? I've always loved the examples you've shown of family or engagement photos. Do you have a favorite lens for portrait work? Thanks so much for any thoughts you can share!
Becky,
You asked for ideas on what to do with the annual Christmas pictures. My thought was to use the same page protectors as project 365. Each family that sends you pictures would have their own page. Each year as they send a new picture you would add it to their page. Then you could "watch" them grow and change over the years right on one page. It would be easy to add more pages to the families that need them sooner then others. In place of the "week of" cards could be the family name, info, relation, place they live, ect. Next to that could be the couples picture. Then there would room for be 6 years of pictures. The bottom slots could be used for school pics of the kids, other info or facts about the family, something written from their card or christmas letter. You would need to be able to label the year on each picture.
Now all I need is more of those cool page protectors. :)
You refer to Razmataz. Is that a store or catalog?
Jill, Aurora, IL
Hi Becky,
Thanks for letting us know about the camera you use. I trusted your judgement and will really help in narrowing down my choices for buying my first SLR camera.
My question is: How do you scrapbook your travel pictures? I know you love to travel and takes tons of pictures.Do you have a separate album for them?
Thanks,
Grace
Becky,
CWebb mentioned she needed more of those "cool page protectors." Actually I need more of the 12 x 12 ones that are divided into 3x3 and 4x3. Used the extras from the baby kit for our summer trip home layout and love it! There are events like birthdays and trips that I always take too many photos of that these would work perfect for. Any chance of just doing a kit with no theme with the divided page protectors and maybe a lined journaling stamp? I really love those page protectors.
p.s. The baseball ones don't come in 12x12 and dont look as great in my albums. Tried it.
Becky,
You said you have the Nikon D90. What lenses do you own? What lense do you use when you are on the soccer field? What lense do you use most? I, too, have a Nikon and am in the process of looking for a new lense - particularly one for shooting outdoor sporting events. Thanks! Teresa
I love most everything that you do and really love the concept of 365. However, I am wondering why you are not doing other traditional pages in addition to the 365.
I don't want you to get me wrong, but it seems like the idea of 365 is to capture your everyday, but not to make it seems as though important events aren't still happening. Why couldn't you still scrapbook those Christmas pics like you usually do? Why couldn't you do a LO of your kids' birthday parties or Christmas versus just including a pic of that day on the 365 LO? Even though I will follow the 365 concept, I will not NOT scrapbook those other important events.
I saw on the Making Memories blog around Christmas that Wilna (from MM) decorates boxes (the kind that cards come in) and then puts all of her cards in their from each year. She labels the edge and stores them on a shelf like a book. I think in some of her photos she had ones laying down or standing up. http://makingmemories.typepad.com/makingmemories/scrap_space/ This is the link- scroll down to Wilna's Card Organization.
-Briana
Becky,
I have a yearly Christmas album that I started when I got married. There is a double page spread for each year with the following: a picture of our Christmas tree, a picture of our family (at first just the two of us, but now includes 2 children), a blank Christmas card that I sent out to friends and family (I always send a Cardinal bird card of some sort), and one or two extra pictures. Sometimes I will add a photo of each child opening a present, sometimes a photo of guests, or our outside decorations. In the first few years of our marriage, we did not get very many Christmas cards so I did not save them. But now we gt so many with photos I hate to throw them away. So, I usually scan the cards and then print them out smaller to use on a layout with the photos. So, lots of little cards with photos on a double page spread. These photo pages follow my regular yearly Christmas page.
Elizabeth
I have been meaning to ask how you scrapbook your cards. I have cards from my kids birthday, babies being born, loss of my son, wedding, baby and wedding showers, etc, and I can't throw them out. Do you suggest putting them in a pocket page all together in a scrapbook or what other suggestions do you have to scrapbook cards?
Thanks, Denise
Hello Becky, I wanted to see if you could help me out. I am trying to help my wife with her project 365 and other scrapbooking. I have adobe photoshop 5.0 and want to know step by step how you can put two 2x3 pictures on one 4x6 photo format. This would be really helpful. Thanks again for the project 365 idea my wife loves it.
When my kids were younger I kept the Christmas cards for them to play with like the children of St. Jude’s. Now that they are older, I don’t keep my Christmas cards (but will have to adapt Amy Wimer’s suggestion into my annual process).
This is how I keep the Christmas photos I receive from others.
The cover page of the album has this poem:
Christmas Poem
I have a list of folks I know, all written in a book
And every year when Christmas comes, I go and take a look,
And that is when I realize that these names are a part
Not of the book they are written in, but really of my heart.
For each name stands for someone who has crossed my path sometime,
And in the meeting they've become the rhythm in each rhyme.
And while it sounds fantastic for me to make this claim,
I really feel that I'm composed of each remembered name.
And while you may not be aware of any special link
Just meeting you has changed my life a lot more than you think.
For once I've met somebody, the years cannot erase
The memory of a pleasant word or of a friendly face.
So never think my Christmas cards are just a mere routine
Of names upon a Christmas list, forgotten in between,
For when I send a Christmas card that is addressed to you,
It is because you're on the list that I'm indebted to.
For I am but a total of the many folks I've met,
And you happen to be one of those I prefer not to forget.
And whether I have known you for many years or few,
In some ways you have a part in shaping things I do.
And every year when Christmas comes, I realize anew,
The best gifts life can offer is meeting folks like you.
And may the spirit of Christmas that forever endures
Leave its richest blessings in the hearts of you and yours.
Author unknown
Next I have a two page spread with four of our actual Christmas photo cards in chronological order. These aren’t cropped. They are exactly as they were sent. The first one we sent was in 1993, so the left page has the 1993 and 1994 cards and the right page has 1995 and 1996 cards, etc. I’ve left blank pages to get me through the years until my children are grown and I’m guessing I’ll stop sending photo cards. (I can always add more pages if this isn’t what happens.)
Next starts the first year of photo cards received by others… so 1993. It looks almost identical to the two page spread you showed from your family album… cropped with as many as I can fit. The first page has the year as the title. The last two pages are our Christmas letter on the left and an 8 x 10 of the photo we sent in the Christmas card on the right page. The theme of the embellies or decorations for that year’s photo cards received matches what our Christmas letter and card looked like.
Thanks for the ideas Becky and ladies!
Can you show us a close up of the xmas card layout? And maybe some other years? I am excited to see what you do with baby, graduation, etc. announcements. Thank for sharing!!!
Hi Becky, I was wondering if you could show us more of your office/scraproom, I would love to see the whole thing. Also I have tried to find your Christmas card from a couple years back, the hybrid card, could you show us what that card looks like.
Thanks
OK, thanks so much that is awesome! I guess if you already have a picture of all the pictures on the wall, if you end up chucking some, it's OK! I feel much better now! I would LOVE to see the other cards and invitations, etc.... that is another huge dilemma for me too! Want to do it on video??? Thanks again!
Becky
Pls give us an update on the Project 365 availability. I did not get a kit, but committed to the concept (vs. traditional family layouts) and keeping it organized for the day they are available. It's OK for some of us to work later in the year on the project from notes - just pls let us know if they will be available some day.
Thank-you
Hi Becky!!! You have a great space. I was wondering who makes the brown tool caddy that is shown in the CK atricle? I have been searching for one that isn't white and I haven't been able to find one. Then I saw yours. Thanks!!!
Meghan
I love your photo on the magazine! You look so good and your children are adorable. You always have such great ideas. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Becky,
I have been reading the comments and there are a lot of great ideas. I feel a bit like a stalker, though, because I know the answers to many of the questions (from you having already blogged the answers). ;)
Anyway, I scrapbook the friends & family photos just like you have in the past, and put them in my "People We Love" album via Stacy Julian's Library of Memories. I know you don't follow that plan, but you can still do the same thing and put them in your chronological albums just as you always have. At least you'll know where to find it, should you want to go back and look at them. :)
Thanks for sharing so many insights into your life, home, and scrapbook ideas. :)
I've got another one for ya--how do you organize your kids'toys? We all know you probably have some way cute organizational system...
Hi Becky,
I love your bed (headboard) in the guest room. Could you tell me where you purchased the bed? I am building a new house and want my guest room to be a special place.
Thanks,
Lisa A
For Christmas cards- I have a Christmas album where I put their pictures (and throw the rest away... I feel bad each time though!) For Project 365 you could put them in the card envelope that came in your baby kit and put it at the end of the album?? Looks like your envelope would be pretty stuffed though!!
Hi Becky
Firstly just wanted to say a huge THANKYOU for sharing so much of your life with us. I have especially loved your home decor blogs, inspiring and beautiful.
Also, I am loving doing Project 365it is so nice to be able to keep up to date with something that will benefit my family now and in years to come. Before this I hadn't managed to do any scrapbooking for ages, the piles of photos were becoming a bit overwhelming so this has been great. I would like to say thanks for the downloads also they have been a big help in allowing me to achieve this project. I wouldn't mind buying some more if ever you were going to do this again, it would be nice to have a little more variation in my album.
Lastly thanks to CWEBB for the awesome idea for xmas/family photos etc, I am definitely going to do this.
Becky and fellow bloggers, thanks for all of the fantastic ideas they are all very inspiring, please keep them coming.
Thankyou and best wishes to you Becky and your family.
Leonie, New Zealand.
to Marie: Becky actually answered your question in another post ans I wanted to share her answer with you in case she misses your question:
Q: Are you really not doing your kids' albums anymore? Project 365 is it? What about all your sketches?
A: This concept of Project 365 (totally focused on just photos & journaling) is my new approach to our family scrapbooks. I will continue with our kids' albums in the traditional scrapbooking format (12" x 12" albums with layouts that highlight their baby-hood, milestones, personalities, schooling, birthdays, etc.) The long-term goal is for each child to leave home (many years from now, of course) with a short series of albums containing an overview of their entire childhood. I have also done "family" albums over the years, so that we have our own books to enjoy ... even long after the children are gone. This Project 365 is my new way of preserving our family memories in 2009 and so any "layouts" I do now, are going to be either for the kids' albums or the "catching-up" layouts that I want to do from this year and last. So my sketches will continue to come in handy.
HTH!
Amy
Hey Becky!! I have a dedicated "Christmas Album" (red, 12 X 12 Modern Album) and this year, I put in some divided page protectors and cut down each Christmas card we received to fit in the different sizes of page protectors....it looks so fun and gives us a glimpse of all the cards we received and the people we love.
http://www.kristygussio.blogspot.com
I'm sure this is a shot in the dark, but I would LOVE to know where you got your brown pen caddy...the one displayed in the CK Mag...I know you are a very busy person and you get thousands of comments and questions, so if you can't get to this question I understand and will keep looking.
I love your blog and all that you do...your awesome!
Karla
from Southern Maryland
Hey Becky! I was thinking, wouldn't it be okay to add a 2 page spread in the midst of your 365 album of your Christmas cards? just a thought:)
If any one thing I have learned doing 365....D-ring albums are great and I may make the switch. Started with strap-hing then top load now it may be the D-ring. I scrap our Christmas cards very similar to what you showed.
I scrap them because people put a lot of thought and money into their cards and they do not belong in my garbage. I also scrap the little school pictures...they make great borders!!!!
Ohhhh I can't wait to see what you do with wedding and graduation announcements :)
Scott, I have emailed a few people directions for PSE to make a collage. Email me at smileyfish76@gmail.com and I'll send directions to you.
I have a question that I really hope you will have time to answer. I have three children, my oldest is in Kindergarten and when I bought your school days kit (which I love so much) I decided to buy only one with really big hopes that you would come out with a new one in the future (I just couldn't afford 3 at the time even though it was an amazing deal). My #2 kid will be starting pre-school in the fall so I will be needing another kit. So my question is will there be a new school kit for sale anytime this year?
Thanks!
Hi Becky! :) I just wanted to let you know how much I love your blog. You always have so many inspiring ideas!
I'm doing the Project 365 and I was one of the people that didn't get a kit. I struggled with how I was going to do the project and still make it work for me and what I came up with was...using a sketch of yours! It was in the August 2008 issue of Creating Keepsakes (on page 50). I initially used the sketch as a base for a year-in-review layout I did for each of my girls in 2008. You've got 15 pics on the sketch as well as journaling space, so I tweaked it a little and put 12 pics, along with a title that took up the space of 3 pics, and the journaling space. It worked perfectly!!
So I was looking at the page and realized I could totally make it work for Project 365. If you break down your sketch into pictures only, you can fit 18 on the 2 pages. I used 7 spaces for pics, 7 for journaling cards and the other 4 for the title (split between the 2 pages). I LOVE it. I've already done 5 layouts the same way, just using different papers and I'm pretty sure my entire year will be done like they are...
Ok, so I know that was a super long way to tell you that I just LOVE your sketches, lol!! They work so well in so many different ways and I really apprecaite you sharing them with us all...
You rock!
- April Walker
If you're at all interested in seeing how they turned out, you can visit my blog at http://scrapperforever.blogspot.com.
Becky
Our family can all lick our noses too! Emma, my 4-year old saw your photo and had to try it.
My plan with our Christmas photos is to do a Chhritmas album along with our family letter and photo through the years...but I'm a bit behind, just saving them for now.
I do have an idea for the extra christmas cards it is on www.paperclipping.com Noell did an awesome altered book video tutorial on just that I have also completed one for each of my kids valentines! Great site check it out tons of other ideas as well.
Amy Coon
I LOVE that Idea for the Christmas photos from friends.. i'll be using that this year!
Amy (two comments above) told me she recommended my Holiday Altered Book Tutorial to you...I created this specifically for the purpose you're talking about.
Here is a direct link to the page for this tutorial...
http://www.paperclipping.com/the-holiday-altered-book/
I hope you like it. (Thanks, Amy!)
Noell
Host, Paperclipping
(BTW, I live in AZ, too)
What I do with our Christmas cards is put them in the container that I use to display/collect them. And, I pack away the container with the cards for the year inside after Christmas.
Then, when I am putting everything up for the next year, I can look back over the last year and reread Christmas letters etc. But, I don't feel bad about recycling the cards because they are from the previous year. It has worked well for us!
My girlfriend did the neatest thing this year, she had saved the christmas pictures that we had sent her over the last several (I think it was 5 or 6) years and then put them in those clear acrylic frames then she hot glued each frame onto a fake evergreen wreath and gave it to us as our gift this year! Now we have a wreath to hang up as a christmas decoration that has our christmas pictures of us through the years - it's really neat to see the difference in the kids through the years.
idea for the project 365 not a pic a day but i got an extra kit and instead of sending it back am going to use it to scrap my kids first 18 years will divide the pages so each kid (3) has a two page spread for each year instead of week of card will use cardstock and make year cards then pick 7 pic from that year and use some of the journaling sections for wallet phots (you know the ones from sears and school photos) will jot down their favorite things for that year and anything else that i can remember) They are 27,22 and almost 18 so some things are not so fresh. this way when they take the scrapbooks i am doing for them individualy i will one that highlights their formative years for myself and i won't feel pressured to scrap every little photo i have believe me i have hundreds.
We cut them into strips and create garland links for next years' tree!
I keep my christmas cards in keepsake boxes each year.. I made one this year you can see it on my blog.
www.themortsmess.blogspot.com (i keep the pictures with the cards) then get the box out with my christmas decorations each year... we can "thumb" through them each year..
Becky,
Some may have already said this, I couldn't read all the entries but you could create a Frequently Asked Questions section to your blog (FAQ). That way, it's out there for people to find and would save you some time. You maybe already have this, I just haven't come across it yet.
Christmas cards. I cut the covers off and put them into inexpensive frames for Christmas decorations. They are in my living room, bathrooms, various spots in the house during the holidays. I change them out if I get one that I really like. The others I keep and put away with Christmas decor and pull out. I do enjoy looking at them year after year.
For pictures I purchased two large Memo boards at Bed, Bath and Beyond. They hang in a long hall way of ours. I printed up two tags, one for family and one for friends. I put the tags and pics there as I get new ones throughout the year.
Thank you for inspiring us.
Hi Becky-- I am not too original here but I put all the photos we receive-- baby, graduation, engagement, Christmas in one "family and friends" album. It is never-ending but really fun to look through.
is there a company that makes sheet protectors similar to the ones from proj. 365? (I was one of the unfortunate scrappers that didn't get a kit!) I want to attempt to do it on my own but the only sheet protectors I can find are divided 4x6 on each sheet (by Pebbles Inc.)...not having the bottom 2 divided 2x3.
Hi Becky - thank you for sharing such wonderful ideas and personal items such as your scrapbook with us.
As for Christmas, I add the pictures to my Christmas Album - it is the last layout of that year. I follow the layout idea that you showed last year in a video on your blog.
Also, wanted to share with the 365 project....there are a couple of weeks so far that I have taken pictures that I wanted to keep - more then just one a day. Such as Valentines Day or Bowling on New Years Eve. I added them inside the week that is appropriate, in an 8x10 setting. It works great in the album and gives me those special extra memories.
Thanks again for the great ideas!
regarding the Christmas card pictures, I have a simple scrapbook from target that holds 4x6 pictutres. I scrapbook a 4x6 block and then slide all the pictures for the year following that. Then for the next year I just pick up where I left off with a scrapbooked 4x6 saying what year it is....etc. It is an album of ONLY Christmas card photos. Just an idea.
Hi Becky!! I just love your ideas, you are very inspiring. I would LOVE to know how you keep your kid's playroom organized. I have boy, girl, & baby toys (like yourself) and would love to see how you keep it all in it's place. You are such a great organizer!!! Thanks so much.
Stacey
Becky, I started with my christmas card photos in my chrono family albums. A few years ago I created a Christmas card photo album. I went to Kinko's and made photocopies of my existing layouts. New years go in the Christmas album. I love to set it out during the holidays and look at how the families and kids have changed through the years.
Hi Becky!!
I love your blog!!! Thank you so much for sharing.
I been wanting to buy the We R Memory Keepers, but I can't decide between the 3-ring binder and the postbound binder. I need an album that will fit many pages. Which one do you recommend?
Can't wait to see what you do with the baby announcements, wedding, etc!
Please share some layouts from Crew's album!!
Thank you!!
God bless, Aneliz
I loved seeing how you present your holiday photos. I have an idea for you going forward. Lain Ehmann (Simple Scrapbooks) gave me this idea and it's genius! It's a photo card holder made from 9x12 clasp envelopes at the office supply store.
This link takes you to my blog post with photos of the one I made (scroll down a bit):
http://kzerwas.blogspot.com/2007/12/holiday-craziness.html
And this link is to Lain's blog with instructions showing hers:
http://knitandpurlgrrl.blogs.com/scraphappy/2007/12/im-back-in-the.html
P.S. I'm going strong on Project 365! What a fabulous idea :)
Why not just make your normal pages with the Christmas photo cards from friends and family, put them in a regular page protector and start putting them in your 365 binder right after the Christmas week? Then they'll be in there at the proper time of year. It certainly won't hurt anything to break up the "365" a little with them. Love, love, love all the pictures of your house. Thanks so much with sharing with us.
Hi Becky,
I have asked this before so I apologize for asking again, but I'm hoping you will see it this time. I know you are a fellow Costco photo person and now that you are definitely printing a lot of 4x6 prints I'm hoping you'll know what to do. On their website they mention that when you order 4x6 prints part of the top and bottom will be resized or cropped. It is such a small amount, but believe it or not it does change the look of the picture. Anyhow, I'm wondering if you've figured out a way to keep this from happening. Do you change your canvas to a certain size in PS? do you have a trick? Thank you for any help you can offer.
Blessings,
Alicia Johnson
Charlotte, NC
My idea for Christmas pictures you receive in cards, etc. I am keeping a Christmas album where I put those pictures each year. That album will only be these types of pictures by year.
Thanks for all your great ideas Becky.
Sharon in Michigan
Becky, was wondering where you got the block letter 'H' that hangs above the table outside your laundry room...I love that idea and would love to get a letter for my home. It is an awesome idea...
Loved your posts on your home. Can you show us how you organize your kids' toys?
Are they all in a playroom, or do you organize them in the kid's rooms?
Hi Becky,
I recently started following your blog and am grateful that you are willing to share parts of your life with strangers!!
Two questions:
1- I live in Australia - am I still able to participate in blog giveaways?
2- I'm a little late to catch on but I want to place an order for Project 365... I don't care how long it takes to get it. I couldn't seem to find the place to order it. Is it still possible to order?
Thanks so much!
I scan all the photos and burn them on a disc and tuck the disc into my album.
Emily L.
I have to tell you how funny it was to get the March issue of CK. I saw the cover and it looked EXACTLY like neice!! My sister even thought it looked just like her daughter too. There's a picture of my neice on my blog. Same white hair, same hair cut. My neice even sticks her tongue out like that, it was too funny!!
Becky, thanks for all of the helpful tips. I love your idea for saving Christmas photo cards. I have been storing them in ziploc bags because I just didn't know what to do with them. I do have a question, I was looking at a photo of your scrapbook room and wanted to know what type of shelving you use for storing your completed albums on? Are they custom made cubed shelving or are they the ones you can buy premade as cubes?
Thanks!
Trina
Hey Becky! Thanks for all your ideas and for reading my question.
You have mentioned before about resizing photos and printing smaller multiples (like 2x2s) on one 4x6. Please, when you can, explain in great detail - because I am a list follower! - how you do this.
I am so appreciative of your help and you sharing your great ideas.
Thank you!
Hi Becky!
thanks for answering questions... I Love it when you do that!
Here's another techy question. What back up machine (storage) do you use with your mac?
thank you!
Hi Becky!
I love saving all my Christmas card photos! I couple of years ago I started putting them in their own album. I pull it out at during the holidays and my children and anyone who drops by loves looking at it. I use the red Picfolio album from Creative Memories. It has 5 slots (3 horizontal and 2 vertical) on each page. It also has a little slot at the bottom to record the year. I have 3 years worth of photos in my 1st album. They are now making that album so you can add addtional pages. You could not do that to the original ones. Also, I wanted to tell you know how much I am enjoying Project 365. It is such a great concept! Thanks for sharing it with all of us.
Pam C. in Tennessee
You could try just having an album where you store your photos, my friend gave me a Christmas album with our family name embossed on it and that is where I store mine and any layouts I create from year to year. Or, you could punch a hole in them and store them on a ring so you/the kids can flip through them. Thanks for sharing!
Monica
I do a similar page with my photos from Christmas and with school photos that I get throughout the year. can't wait to see what you do with announcements as I am always trying to incorporate them into my layouts, but sometimes they just don't guite fit.
A suggestion for the KOTM --in the future maybe CK could do a poll to come up with an estimate as to how many people are GOING TO BUY the upcoming kit--maybe that would give a better idea as to how many kits need to be made.???
Hey Cover Girl,
I've always wondered where you got your white canned good organizers in your pantry (from Dec 07 post).
Also, I read somewhere that CK doesn't know when the backorders will arrive in the warehouse or even where they are. Do you know when they'll be shipping?
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing your fun ideas. I always love to read them.
Here is my question: in project 365 the white stickers that are meant to go on the pictures for the week, I have noticed in some examples that they are colored instead of just being white. How do you do that?
I scrapbook all our photo Christmas cards in an 8x8 album. The first section for each year has our family photo then followed by the cards we received that year.
Becky,
I LOVE your hair on the cover of the new issue. I am going to take the picture in to show my stylist. Is there anyway you can explain what you had done? Like how they cut it, and what type of highlights they used? OH, and is it darker on the bottom? Thanks!
Karrie
i put all the holiday photos in a 12x12 album, kind of in friend/family/place categories because we know so many people from so many different parts of our lives. It works great and i love looking thru it to see how families have grown. i recycle the cards, too. Or send them somewhere to be reused.
Could you please tell me where you got the bedframe in your guest room?
The one with the beautiful red bedding? We are building a house and that frame is exactly what I am looking for.
If you have any info on the bedding that would be great.
I know this all feels so weird asking for such personal info from a stranger( I have met you at a copule CKU's but still....) I hope you can see this as a compliment on your good decorating taste, and my lack thereof.
Thank you for your time.
You are so inspiring!! So fun to see you on the March cover. I am also a huge fan of Scentsy candles. Love them, especially having little ones around who can be stinky!!! Thanks again for the fun ideas.
Stacey
www.scentsy.com/iloveit
Yes, I make a Christmas card album too. It's true. So that's the main reason our cards are still up on Feb. 21 because I haven't gotten them into an album yet. It's really fun to look at over the years, and my pages are very simple, much like your layout. I put our card from the year on one page, and all the rest that we received on the following pages. It would be really easy for you to put all of your layouts into a Christmas card album if you wanted to and then just keep going. My friend have told me they make sure I get a photo card from them because they know I will keep it. :)
Thanks for all your tips!
Becky: could we get an update on the status of the Project 365 backorders. The KOTM blog is totally silent on this issue and the customer service people said they had no idea when they'd arrive (previously they had assured us they'd arrive by early February). Are they really coming?
Maybe you could "cheat" a bit and create a Christmas only album just for these sorts of LOs?
If you took the LOs out of your older albums and grouped them in one album it would be a nice visual record of "People We Love" (yes I am taking Stacy Julian's LOM class).
Just a thought.
--Michelle
Looking forward to hearing about your system of orgainizing all your announcements! I have a huge pile and need to do something with them...
I'm trying to get my husband to "see what I've been trying to describe of what I'd like to do my scrapbook/quilting room. Sounds like your cabinets with drawers below and above is something I'd like to do on a smaller scale. Could you put some of the pictures on your blog so I could show my husband what I had in mind?
Becky-
I took your album concept and used it for my Christmas cards a couple of years ago. I do the 12x12 We R Memory Keepers leather 3 ring albums....red albums for our family, yellow for my daughter, country blue for my son, and I bought a green one for the Christmas cards. Each year, I trim down the photo cards to just the picture of the family and make a very simple layout of it for the year. Last year, I had a four page layout...I just use the same paper/font to make it uniform. Then I pull it out at Christmas time and people look through the past years at all the pictures. Everyone seems to love this idea and says they never knew what to do with it before. I figure as the years go by, I'll fill up my green album and get another one. And it looks good up next to my red, yellow, and blue albums. I love the uniformity. Thanks for all your ideas.
-Jennifer C.
You could always scan the photos and make a photobook at one of the photobook stores? Maybe CK could do a theme like the year in review book that Lisa Bearnson did?
Love all your great ideas and the colours in you home too!
Helen
My treatment of photo Christmas cards has always been pretty simple. I only keep the photos (actual cards get trashed unless they are particularly meaningful or if they can be re-used as embellishments in a project).
I have a separate Christmas album, so I do a layout with all the photos we received - at the end of that particular year (I usually can fit multiple years in one album).
This year, I tackled the Daily December Album (Ali Edwards) and decided to include the photo cards at the back of that instead.
However, I must confess after reading all of these comments... I love the idea of creating an album that houses the cards year after year. I love, even more, the idea of keeping the same families together. I may have to rethink how I handle cards going forward. Thanks for the question which caused all this brainstorming!!!
Becky, I love your blog and ideas. I have a question for you about the 4x6 photo sleeves that fit right into our 12x12 scrapbooks. Do you put them between layouts or save them for end of the scrapbook? I'm using them in my baby kit. It feels funny splitting a layout up. Thanks for your ideas!
For lack of time, I just used my cropadile and made two hole punches on each card whether it was a photo card or christmas card and tied them together with some ribbon, thus making a 'christmas card book'. I put the book away with my Christmas stuff and decided to do this each year and put the books out on display at my entry table. This way I can see who sent me a card last year and people who visit will know that their photo didn't get tossed in the trash after the holiday (I mean who could toss all those cute photos of cousins under the tree!)
Another idea I have done is cut just the photo out and used a flip album and on one side wrote a journal card about the family and our relationship to them, and then instered their photo on the opposite side. Doing it this way makes for a good display year-round.
Hi Becky,
I just discovered your blog--wow! I'm gonna have to squeeze out some time to explore!
As far as all those Christmas cards...funny thing, I JUST pulled mine out of baggies last week as mine were sitting like yours. Since they were already sorted, I sifted through and saved only photo cards and the cards with actual messages in them. Then sorted them by size (b/c I'm weird that way) and tied a pretty ribbon around them. I'm going to put a tag on there with the year and then they all went in a pretty basket with a lid that I bought just for this purpose.
I recently did a similar thing with all the greeting cards we have gotten over the years...I wasn't sure what to do with meaningful cards we've gotten over the years. Other than from our wedding and the birth of our kids, the amounts were just a few here and there. So I grouped them all together by year, tied on a pretty ribbon and am doing the same storage for them (different container though).
After thinking I was going to do an album with all these cards someday realizing that was probably not going to happen until the kids had moved out (LOL! if then!) this works for me for now and at least they are organized in a way that if I do ever decide to do an album it will be easy.
I crop and use the photo Christmas cards we receive in a small photo album (or 3... one for each kid) that I update each year as new pictures of each family come. The albums generally hang out in our church bag so that each child has a small book to flip through when it's time to be especially quiet. Sometimes they ask us about our college friends and where people live. It's a fun way to keep those who are far away in our lives at least weekly.
I had collected 10 years worth of Christmas cards and photos. A few years ago I finally put them in a scrapbook.
I started each section off with our annual letter, photo and homemade card. Each section uses the same holiday papers. I alternated between green, red and brown cardstock for each year. Now that it is done, completing just one year at a time is easy!
I really love how it turned out.
You can check it out here http://kellylynncreations.typepad.com/photos/holiday/06letterblur.html
. . thanks for sharing & well discussion on this topic . i really liked to read all the questions put on it. thanks again Recycling Stickers
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