Busy

Yesterday I decided that I am FINALLY going to do another layout. As you may recall, I signed up to do Focus52, with the intent of doing one layout a week.  We're already thirteen weeks into the year so I should have about thirteen layouts, right?  Guess how many layouts I've done? Three. *shh*  Yes, that's right. I said three. I've finished three layouts.

So last night I sat down feeling all inspired to do a layout, with grand ideas about trying to get caught back up even.  I popped over to Jan's page and saw that the prompt for this week is silly.  However, I wasn't feeling the word silly.  So I started writing about something else. And to be frank, it wouldn't have mattered WHAT the prompt was, the thing on my mind was that I was ten weeks behind schedule...and WHY I was ten weeks behind schedule. I started writing about my crazy life and about how I'm getting my kids from one place to another all day long and my schedule changes from day-to-day which makes it even more confusing and complicated.

When I had finished my journaling and was starting to think about embellishing my page, it suddenly struck me that this all seemed a little familiar...very familiar, in fact.  So I looked back at those three completed layouts - and this is where silly DOES end up coming into play.  ahem I already did a layout about my crazy schedule. I've now completed four layouts this year, and half of them are about my crazy schedule.

But I think that's fitting.  That's where my life is at right now.

(But next I hope to do a layout that isn't about my schedule.)

Sweet Treats

I submitted this for my Focus52 project for the week. The prompt for this week was "cold". This might not seem like it has anything to do with cold but making these treats was how we entertained ourselves on a snow day so there you go...that fits, right?!  *hehe*  But actually I have to admit that my intentions ARE suspect. I did another layout today (see below) which fit better with my project objectives, but this is the one I submitted because....well...I liked the pictures.  Yep, vanity at its best.

To be honest, we're at week 3 and I'm hitting a wall.  Is that a good sign or a bad sign?  Here's the deal: I'm pretty sure I'm a better photographer than scrapbooker...and it's frustrating. I feel like my layouts are kind of dull and they're all the same. But if I try to get too "artsy" with them, it just doesn't feel authentic.  I dunno.  I tell myself that if nothing else, the story is getting told, and that's what matters, right?

Sweet Treats, originally uploaded by hezro.

Begin

Begin, originally uploaded by hezro.

I started working on this post on Thursday, per my previous post.

And typical for my life, that launched me onto a completely different project.  I was looking for photos to use and the only high-res photo I could find was this little gem from our first Halloween together.

 

So that launched me into a photo scanning project.  Now, three days and two boxes of photos later, I've scanned all of my prints until the middle of 2000.  The exciting thing is that by the end of 2000 I had a digital camera.  So only half a year of photos to go. Yipee!  (I do have two albums of prints from my wedding but still, the end is in sight.) 

It actually wasn't too bad.  I used the continuous scan function on VueScan and I watched about 30 episodes of Arrested Development courtesy of Netflix.com (before I finally switched to Monarch of the Glen, which I'm watching right now, as a matter of fact).  Honestly I would have kept going with the scanning but I was getting serious carpal tunnel in my wrist from switching out the photos...I'm not kidding.  But on the up side, I got to finish my first layout for my Focus52 project.  And I'm looking forward to fifty-one more layouts of the important...and unimportant things in my life.