Prior to reading Stacy Julian's Library of Memories book my pages were all stored in boring, mismatched albums, by year. And while it worked well enough it didn't really feel right to me. Then I read her book. And I got very excited. It was like a light bulb went off. I immediately had to reorganize all my albums. That I "had" to get all new, very cute, coordinating albums was a bonus.
(Funny story - when I explained to Michael how Stacy organized her albums, he looked at my and said "Well yeah, isn't that how you do it? That's how I'd do it." Yes, honey, of course it is.)
Going through my pages and putting them into new categories made me feel good. I enjoyed my pages all over again in a whole new way. And it made me think of my pictures in a new way too. I'm currently in the process of organizing my photos The Library of Memories way. Granted, I started it two years ago, but one day, I'm sure I'll finish. Reorganizing thousands of pictures is a tad overwhelming, after all. But I'm excited to finally have my pictures all organized and easily accessable. I know it'll help me start scrapping some of my older pictures. To tell stories that I otherwise wouldn't get to. To showcase pictures that would otherwise be forgotten.
Eventually I'll even get to that page of my childhood pet dog, Rosie, I've been planning to do. See, I'd like to do one page with pictures from throughout Rosie's 16 years. But that would now require going through 16 years of pictures and let's be honest. I'm not doing that. BUT, when I finally get my pictures all organized, all I'll have to do is go to my pet category, pull out the pictures of Rosie and get scrapping. :)
Thank you Stacy, for changing the way I scapbook. Good luck to you!
PS, in case you hadn't heard, Stacy is stepping down from her editorial role at Simple Scrapbooks and you can read more about it both on Simple's blog and Stacy's.
6 comments:
ooooh love all those pretty albums!
Yeah, look at those pretty albums! You actually put your layouts in albums??? ;)
Stacy is a huge huge influence in my scrappy life too! And I love Michael's response! LOL! MEN!
would you mind coming and organizing mine? because you sound so convincing, but i just don't have the energy. ;)
p.s. you should write a book...or at least write the ads for stacy's book. because now i want to read it.
also, i now want to scrap.
you rock. now call me. :D
love the new colorful albums :-)
Erin!
Bless you for sending me this link. Even better, bless you to adapting some of my ideas to your scrapbooking world. I'm so glad you're on the SS team this year too -- thanks for sharing your talents with us!!
and seriously, thanks for all the nice words.
Erin!
Bless you for sending me this link. Even better, bless you to adapting some of my ideas to your scrapbooking world. I'm so glad you're on the SS team this year too -- thanks for sharing your talents with us!!
and seriously, thanks for all the nice words.
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