The Ticker MOVED!

I realize that this isn't earth-shattering blog material for YOU - but the magnetic album ticker under goals in my side bar MOVED.

Last night was another Project Night. I spent March's night working two no-tie fleece quilts. I had no other projects but working on transferring photos for last night. I was NOT inspired...but hey....I'm their leader...I must go.

We had a good time. I loved the inter-generational interactions.  Laura was one of our new students.  Her parents owned a bakery. She grew up living above a bakery. It was fun to talk of her favorite dessert (and beg her to get her parents to send one to the chaplain's wife who has taken their young dd under her wing - but the truth is I know others are doing the same for my dds that are the same age). She told me that they used to make the dough the night before, let it rise in the fridge over night, then bake the next a.m. I think I'm going to try that - it would work well with my schedule, and we like our pizza dough like that. Jill was with us for the last time last night - she'll be moving on before May. Ugh.

I got another album transferred. I've filled the one Creative Memory album. CM is making changes to the size of their albums et al. I need to figure out how many packs of pages and things I will need to fill the albums I have here so that when I get to them, I don't run out of pages that will fit! (Shew run on sentence.)

I also began talking about a new style that will use up my paper, give my albums a bit of color, and still be QUICK. I think. We shall see. Thanks for the tips, Sherri.

At this point, I plan to continue to simply treat those big blank pages as "photo album pages", slap those photos in and journal. I'm getting them DONE, and that's my goal. I don't think I'll ever go back to my former "hobby" scrapbooking style (where it could take 6 hours to put ONE photo in the album).....but Sherri covers the page with colored paper which gives COLOR that I LOVE, and then slaps her photos down on the page. I think that would be QUICK and colorful. I may finish transferring these that Mom made for me and then try that on the ones after that.....because I began these this way, and I don't want to change mid-project, but I AM starting a new album in this project, and I'm out of natural pages and so have to change to white anyway.  Maybe I'll begin covering the white pages with paper in the next album....ugh decisions. LOL

I've transferred 5 of the magnetic albums Mom made me to this album.

Yes, I really am just transferring them - and it's been a trial to Debbie and Sherri to see me happily slapping photos onto the pages - but it's done! ::snort::

Now, I know what many of you are thinking, "You can go back, and do it right later." I reserve that right - but for now this seems exactly right. The kids can now see photos of me with my pet monkey, sleeping with my pet racoon, carrying wood on my head, in my African garb.  In other words, they can see photos to go along with the stories, and they don't CARE if each photo is matted. Thanks again mom for the gift of time and effort it took to make this album set for me all those years ago. GEEPERS - it WAS time to change the photos...many were being eaten by the magnetic pages.