Wednesday 9 May 2012

WIP... Cover to Cover

Part of Shimelle's Cover to Cover class is having a really good think about how you store your LOs to make up scrapbooks - mine were kind of ordered by theme, but a bit jumbled and I had heaps that didn't have anywhere to go. So over the bank holiday weekend I got out every single LO I could find and re-ordered them all chronologically. These are all my LOs from the past 5 years....


There's also some double sided tape plus some scissors where I was making emergency repairs! I have actually done more than these if you count holiday albums and mini-books but I'm happy with the format of them so leaving them alone for now.

I then refiled all the LOs in the best chronological order that I could, and I'm now working my way through them and comparing them to photo files on picasa to make sure I've included all the stories I want to have (I haven't!). I've also pre-paid for some photo credits and will order photos for the stories I want to tell as I go along.  Have done 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 so far and the further I go back the more photos I want to order.

Before they start arriving I'm also tackling this little box...

Sorry can't get the photo orientated right - stupid blogger!!

I bought it to store photos when I first started scrapping, it's got lovely dividers and could be a really good organisational tool - if I'd ever used the dividers and not just as a general photo dumping ground! I have photos everywhere so they're now getting sorted as well and ordered chronologically - can you see a theme here?

3 comments:

  1. I love the box for storing your photos. I use something similar but it is a bit thin for holding my 'slightly unusual sized' photos :P

    Love your pre-40 list by the way...what a great idea :)

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  2. Congrats to you for all of that layout sorting. I have a similar task ahead of me. And the photo box---I have the same issue except that I have 4 of them! Now granted, some of mine are divided and somewhat organized, but they have all eventually become photo dumping grounds!

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  3. Have just popped over from 'class'....you HAVE been busy...I'm going to stick with printing my own pics, but have managed to whittle down the number of photos I have on my hard drive!
    Alison xx

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