Just some thoughts

Don't know if I can keep this up but I'd like to blog a bit more. It will probably mean some changes to the design of the page - I'm still hoping to design some scrapbooking supplies. But - I noticed this last week that although I'm doing better, my digital lay-outs still don't look quite like paper-and-glue scrapbook pages.

This is what brought me to that realization. The last two weeks I've been trying to get my cruise scrapbook more up-to-date - especially the cruises we've done with a local DJ, Bobby Box. I got the ones for 2009 and 2010 and then couldn't find the pictures for 2008. I finally found them on my laptop (why there I'm not sure.) So I started building digital pages. But I had this nagging feeling that I'd scrapped at least part of the cruise before. I searched all of my scrapbooks and while I could find two devoted to our Disney Magic cruise in 1988, I couldn't find the one for 2008.

You have to also understand that my 'craftroom' is in a state of flux (it's almost always in a state of flux but more so now that my mother passed away in November and I've got a lot of her stuff to still go through.)

So I finished the digital scrapbook pages - had about 10 of them. I put them in my new "Just Cruising" album with the 2009 and 2010 cruises. Then I was cleaning up the craftroom, finished up St. Patrick's day cards, when I wanted to put away a magazine case full of cardstock. This belonged on top of a bookcase and was difficult to reach, so I moved some things out of the way. I moved one wheeled storage unit and came across an album that had kept falling down and getting in my way a few months ago. And yes, it was the 2008 cruise album. I started looking at it and decided I liked those pages better than the digital pages I'd created. They just seemed more warm and personal. So I transferred the pages (I had close to twenty of them) to the cruise album. I'll have to condense the digital page and I'll take a picture of the "matching" paper page to show the differences. But all the time I was making the digi-pages I could remember the first pages of the album I'd created before. I remembered using a tape with a wrought-iron fence on clear background that I'd used for the Galveston pictures. I'm glad I found them.