I need to scrap in the moment. If it doesn't get done within a week, it's probably not going to be scrapped. This weekend I started on reorganizing my crap scrap, again, and came across this travel album, again. I fanned out all the products, and took a picture on my phone to post on facebook. I thought I was going to post a picture and give it away once and for all. But like every other time I got it out to give it away or throw it away, I ended up touching all the papers and loving it all over again.
Earlier that day I had spent enough money to feed a small village on new photo paper and ink, and Eddie was spending the evening out with the guys. I had no excuses. My goal was simple, get photos on paper. I had to let go of perfectionism, and planning out page by page. I didn't edit in photoshop, I just selected the pictures I liked in iPhoto, cropped them square, and printed them 8x8. Less (and by less I mean zero) page space means less space to pine over what embellishments to use. I wrote about what I remembered, and stuck stuff where it felt okay. I didn't worry about design, or balance, just that nothing looked too off, and everything was in chronological order. (In 20 years I won't care if my labels are crooked, I hope I'll just be happy I have a book to flip through to jog memories.) In the throws of my "getter done" mentality, I actually glued a page on top of another one that had finished (and thought was one of the cutest out of the bunch). Fail. But I marched on, and am so happy I did.
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